The results of the RSC Belgium Chemistry Challenge 2022 were announced at our event on 29 September with Prof Vincent Lemaitre at the British School of Brussels (BSB) in Tervuren. As for the previous two years, this year's Chemistry Challenge was undertaken as a virtual event in the early summer with the students working remotely at their schools.
For the 2022 Challenge, we received entries from the
majority of our group of international and European schools in the Brussels
area and beyond and, as ever, the Challenge was designed to test the student's
chemical knowledge and initiative. In total entries for 2022 were significantly
up on 2021.
The RSC Belgium Chemical Challenge has three sections:
- A
chemistry multiple choice paper (Section A)
- A
structured questions on chemistry (Section B), and
- A 'Thinking
Matters' paper that is not chemistry based (Section C)
The top results were as follows:
Section A - Multiple choice
First prize for this section was won by Olivia
Brenninkmeijer from the Antwerp International School (AIS), pictured below, who received a €50 award.
In second place was Giorgia Lucrezia la Cognata from the European School in Mol (ESMol) who won €25 and the third prize of €10 went to Zeynep Ozel of BSB.
Section B - Structured questions
In this section the first prize of €50 was awarded to Kiara
Kuralla of BSB with Matei Slavnicu from St.Johns International School (St John’s) picking up the second prize of €25. Two
third prizes of €10 were awarded to Siena Ootes of the European School 1 in Luxembourg (ESL1)
and Zeynep Ozel of BSB.
Section C - Thinking Matters
For this section the top prize of €50 went to Kheya Sinha of
BSB, with BSB's Kalvin Biggs picking up a second prize of €25. Four third
places worth €10 were awarded to Simon Guisset and Philipp Weisser of ESL1 and
Kiara Kuralla and Naomi Copner from BSB.
The Keith Price Prize
With an outstanding performances in Section B, and receiving an additional €100, this
year's Keith Price Prize was claimed by Kiara Kuralla of BSB
(pictured below on the far right with some other BSB winners - from left to right Kalvin Biggs, Kheya Sinha, Naomi Copner, Zeynep Ozel and Kiara).
Well done to everyone who took part in this year's Chemistry Challenge! Every student that entered the competition receives a certificate of participation (see pic from ESL1 below). And, of course, we will be running the Challenge again in 2023 and look forward to further widening participation!