2023 French Chemists' Tournament: Proud of the FDS Team

_{The team from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Montpellier tied for^{5th place} with ENS Ulm at the^{3rd edition}of the French Chemistry Tournament, held at École Polytechnique on March 24 and 25, 2023. Congratulations to our first-year Master’s students in Chemistry and their coaches from the Chemistry Department!}

Congratulations to our eight students: Yoan Bietry, Chelsio Camilo, Julia Duplessis-Kergomard, Arthur Guerin, Alexandre Koulechoff, Agate Levron, Lola Miénné Abbou, and Narjis Ouazanni.  

Congratulations also to their coaches—Sébastien Clément, Sylvain Catrouillet, David Egron, Jean-Sébastien Filhol, Claude Niebel, Saad Sene, and Jean-Yves Winum—who prepared them for the tournament events.

They all proudly represented the University of Montpellier and their respective departments. 

The 2023 edition brought together nine top-tier teams from nine different institutions: École Polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Ulm, ENS Lyon, ENS Paris-Saclay, Chimie ParisTech, the University of Montpellier, ESPCI-Université de Sherbrooke, Université Paris-Cité, and Sorbonne Université.

Our students performed exceptionally well, securing an impressive fifth-place finish, just behind École Polytechnique (by a narrow margin), tied with ENS Ulm, and ahead of Sorbonne University, Chimie ParisTech, and Université Paris-Cité.

Special mention goes to Arthur, who won one of the awards for best speakers, and to Yoan, who was recognized as one of the best debaters. The team also received the “opening round” award, given for the first round of the competition, which involves finding the closest value to a complex scientific calculation.

See you in March 2024 for the^4thedition of TFChim in Lyon! (https://www.tfchim.fr)