BoB reports in, lately

Thirty-eight students from seven area high schools competed in the “Battle of the Burets” on February 25th, 2019. Kevin Tucker, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at SIU–Edwardsville, hosted the event. Professor Tucker’s account of the proceedings narrowly missed the March issue of the Chemical Bond, and somehow didn’t appear in April, either. Now, May … is a different story. This one:

Each team completed six titrations scored based on relative error. The top team averaged less than 2% error. The top six teams received trophies and a round of applause from the other participants. Congratulations to Mary Institute and Country Day School (MICDS) and teacher Kelly Anderson, who led her students Meredith Goldberg and Trisha Bhattacharyya to a first place finish. Clayton High School’s team (teacher Nathan Peck) of Myles McCarthy and Emilia Roas-Linhard took second place. Clayton High School also had teams tie for both third and fourth place. In third place was Richard Cheng and Erik Tomasson and in fourth place was David Corbo and Hongkai Jiang. Sharing third place were Robert McKnight and Keelyn Legler from Parkway West High School with coach Jan Keller. Tying for fourth place were Jude Sorkin and Alex Migala of MICDS.

Thank you to all of the teachers for encouraging your students to participate and congratulations to all the participants on a job well done! If you know a high school teacher that would be interested in participating in this event in the future, please email Dr Tucker (kevtuck@siue.edu) referencing Battle of the Burets and asking to be added to the distribution list for the event.

Results summary:

Place	Contestants	School	Teacher
1st	Meredith Goldberg Trisha Bhattacharyya	Mary Institute and Country Day School	Kelly Anderson
2nd	Myles McCarthy Emilia Roas-Linhard	Clayton High School	Nathan Peck
3rd (tie)	Richard Cheng Erik Tomasson	Clayton High School	Nathan Peck
	Robert McKnight Keelyn Legler	Parkway West High School	Jan Keller
4th (tie)	David Corbo Hongkai Jiang	Clayton High School	Nathan Peck
	Jude Sorkin Alex Migala	Mary Institute and Country Day School	Kelly Anderson