2023 French Chemists' Tournament: Proud of the Fds team

_{The team from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Montpellier tied for^{fifth place} with ENS Ulm in the^{third edition}of the French Chemists' Tournament, held at École Polytechnique on March 24 and 25, 2023. Congratulations to our Master's 1 Chemistry students 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 high-level teams from nine different institutions: École Polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Ulm, ENS Lyon, ENS Paris-Saclay, Chimie ParisTech, University of Montpellier, ESPCI-University of Sherbrooke, University Paris-Cité, and Sorbonne University.

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

Special mention goes to Arthur, who won one of the prizes for best speaker, and to Yoan, who was recognized as one of the best debaters. The team also received the seed prize, awarded for the opening round of the competition, which consists of finding the closest value to a complex scientific calculation question.

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