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TWU's first Chemistry Games
A gold medal in science wasn’t up for grabs at this year’s Winter Games, but at Trinity Western’s first ever Chemistry Games, talented young scientists vied for one such prize. Jointly sponsored by TWU and Canada’s National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the games brought local high school students to campus to compete. Ten teams of students from six high schools completed two complex experiments and one written test. The experiments were then judged on accuracy and purity, and tallied together with the written test results.
“The experiments the students conducted, such as making aspirin and determining the amount of hypochlorite in bleach, are at least the level of a first-year university course, and the high school students rose to the challenge,” says TWU professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Craig Montgomery, Ph.D., who helped plan and run the event.
Created to promote science in the community and interest in science among high school students, the games also kicked off National Chemistry Week. This was the first year TWU offered the Chemistry Games and Montgomery looks forward to making it an annual event.
by Erin Mussolum '95
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