Chemistry Olympians Win at State

5/18/2012

Liz Tausner

24 D-E Upper School students traveled to NJIT earlier this week to compete in the 2012 New Jersey Chemistry Olympics. The "Chemistry Olympians" successfully 'medaled' in two areas of the event, winning 2nd place in nomenclature (Andreas Festekjian, George Georges and Brian Zhang) and 3rd place in demonstration (Tyler de Jarnett and Rachel Kupelian).

For the nomenclature competition, students needed to determine the names and formulas of 50 different organic and inorganic compounds. Each of the three students worked independently on separate tests at the same time. A raw score was determined by combining the scores of the three individuals. Students were required to name common ions (ex: nitrate)

salts (ex: NaCl); binary molecular compounds (ex: CO2); acids (ex: H3PO4); common substances (ex: gypsum, brimstone)

organic compounds (ex: dichlorobenzene); and coordination compounds (ex: tetrachloronitrocobalt (III) chloride).

For the demo competition, students performed a 3-minute live chemistry demonstration. including a single demonstration of an exothermic or endothermic reaction.

Participating students in the 2012 New Jersey Chemistry Olympics included the following:

Team A
Samantha Balanevsky
Danny Chang
Denver Cohen

India June

Ashley Modell
Maitreyi Nabar
Naomi Popkin
Samantha Pittel

Shogo Senda
Amy Wang
Clement Wong

Team B
Tyler Dejarnett
Andre Festikjian
George Georges

Rachel Kupelian

Julia Kim
Jean Li

Becca Lunt

Jesus Shao

Diane Song
Nelson Yang

Richard Yi
Brian Zhang

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Chemistry Olympians Win at State