March 4, 2020: Academic Chemistry Olympiad at the Faculty of Science
Academic Chemistry Olympiad at the Faculty of Science
The Academic Chemistry Olympiad took place on Wednesday, March 4.
Congratulations to Robin CURINIER from Lycée Joffre, who will be representing the Montpellier academy at the Olympiades Nationales de la Chimie.The national competition will take place on April1 and2, 2020 at the Lycéed'Arsonval(Saint Maur des Fossés), and will close with a prize-giving ceremony on April 3.
The Chemistry Olympics have been organized since 1984 by the Union des Industries Chimiques (UIC), now France Chimie, the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, the Société Chimique de France and the Union des Professeurs de Physique et de Chimie. Each year, more than 2,000 candidates compete in the various académies on the theme of "Chemistry in the City".
The aim of this national competition is to arouse students' interest in chemistry and raise awareness of the contribution made by this discipline to the development of science and technology. It also promotes encounters between the educational and professional worlds of chemistry, reminding us that chemistry is a living science practiced in research laboratories.
The science competition for Terminale S and STL students
We are organizing the academic final at the Faculty of Science. We have initially selected 12 finalists (from a field of 72 candidates).
These students come from 7 local high schools: Lycée Marc Bloch in Sérignan, Lycée Auguste Loubatières in Agde, Lycée Jean Mermoz and Lycée Joffre in Montpellier, Lycée Emmanuel d'Alzon in Nîmes, Lycée Jean Vilar in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon and Lycée François Arago in Perpignan.
The final is organized as follows:
=> In the morning, the twelve finalists will compete individually in 2 practical tests: a laboratory notebook to complete and experiments to carry out under real conditions.
=> The afternoon will be devoted to collaborative work (4 teams of 3 students) on a study of documents with a questionnaire, followed by a presentation of the summary of this work to a jury. The academy winner will compete in the national final in Paris in April 2020.
At the same time, students not selected for the orals will be able to take part in workshops in groups of 10 (SEM - scanning electron microscope - observations, NMR - nuclear magnetic resonance - visit, magic chemistry experiments and laboratory visits - IEM & ENSCM).
The afternoon will be devoted to conferences and the prize-giving ceremony.
