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Lab Course Information

Fall 2025

Students enrolled in fully online lab courses are required to rent a lab kit through the bookstore.

 Fall 2025 Lab Kit Instructions

 Step 1: Place Your Web Order

Order your lab kit online through How to Place a Web Order. Once your order is processed, you will receive a second confirmation email with the subject line “Order Number: XXXX Pickup Confirmation”. Print a copy of the email or pull it up on your phone. If you need assistance with printing, please see the Information Booth at the Kopp Center.

Step 2: Pick Up Your Lab Kit

Bring both of the following to the Chemistry Prep Room (S 2373):

(Directions to the pick-up location):

  • Your Pickup confirmation email
  • Your Normandale student ID card

🔹 Replacement Parts

If you need to replace any missing, broken, or used components, bring your Normandale student ID to verify your original purchase.

Step 3:  Returning Labkit Material

Your lab kit includes a checklist. Items marked “RETURN – HIGHLIGHTED items in the bin” must be returned a week after the last day of finals.

  • Failure to return required items on time will result in a fee charged to your student account.
  • Return location: Please check your email about rental return times and location.

Payment & Shipping

  • You can use Financial Aid to pay for your lab kit.
  • If a student is unable to come to campus, their lab kit can be mailed to a street address in the lower forty-eight United States. Lab kits cannot be mailed to post office boxes, to Alaska or Hawaii, or to locations outside the United States.   For full semester courses students should contact their instructor no later than the first day of class to request a mailed lab kit.

Two weeks before the semester begins: Students can start ordering online 

August 11th – August 15th

Lab Kit pick-ups days and times (room S2373)

Two weeks before the semester begins:
Tues Aug 12        9am – 4pm
Weds Aug 13    9am – 4pm
Thurs Aug  14     9am – 4pm
Fri Aug  15          9 am- 4pm

One week before the semester begins:
Mon Aug 18        9am – 4pm
Tues Aug 19        9am – 4pm
Weds Aug 20    CLOSED
Thurs Aug  21     9am – 4pm
Fri Aug  22          9 am- 4pm

Week One of the semester:
Mon Aug 25    9am – 6:30pm
Tues Aug 26    9am – 6:30pm
Weds Aug 27   9am – 6:30pm
Thurs Aug  28   9am – 6:30 pm
Fri Aug   29        9am – 4pm

Week Two of the semester:
Mon Sep 1    CAMPUS CLOSED
Tues Sep 2     9am – 6:30pm
Weds Sep 3   9am – 6:30pm
Thurs Sep 4    9am – 6:30pm
Fri Sep   5      9am – 4pm

Week Three of the semester:
Mon Sep 8    9am – 4pm
Tues Sep 9     9am – 6:30pm
Weds Sep 10   9am – 6:30pm
Thurs Sep 11    9am – 6:30pm
Fri Sep   12     9am – 4pm

Week Four of the semester:
Mon Sep 15    9am – 6:30pm
Tues Sep 16     9am – 6:30pm
Weds Sep 17   9am – 6:30pm
Thurs Sep 18    9am – 6:30pm
Fri Sep 19     9am – 4pm

When picking up a lab kit, please plan to spend 5-10 minutes reviewing the kit contents.

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