Burets Continue to Battle at SIUE

Fifty two students from thirteen area high schools competed in the annual “Battle of the Burets”. The event was hosted by Dr. Kevin Tucker, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Each team completed 6 titrations, which were scored based on relative error. The top six teams received trophies and a round of applause from the other participants.

Congratulations to Parkway South High School and teacher Susan Scott who led her students Maple Wang and Bryan Van Genderen to a first place finish. Mary Institute/Country Day School’s team (teacher Kelly Anderson) of Lucy Cadanau and Shibaskis Mandal finished in second place. Clayton High School and teacher Nathan Peck had teams tie for both third and fourth place. In third place was Justin Juilak and Marissa Lewis and in fourth place was Kim Tran and Kedar Venkatesh. Also in third place were Gabby Hernandez and Alexa Frattini from Visitation Academy under the direction of Dr Sherry Logusch. Tying for fourth place was Justin Bridges and Aidan Crowe of St Mary’s High School under the leadership of Kristine Ranciglio.

Thanks to all of the teachers for encouraging their students to participate and congratulations to all the participants on a job well done!

Winners of the 2018 Battle of the Burets from left to right: front row – Aidan Crowe and Justin Bridges (St Mary’s High School, Kristine Ranciglio, fourth place); Maple Wang and Bryan Van Genderen (Parkway South High School, Susan Scott, first place); Kim Tran and Kedar Venkatesh (Clayton High School, Nathan Peck, fourth place); back row: Alexa Frattini and Gabby Hernandez (Visitation Academy, Sherry Logusch, third place); Lucy Cadanau (Mary Institute/Country Day School, Kelly Anderson, second place); Marissa Lewis and Justin Juilak (Clayton High School, Nathan Peck, third place). Not pictured is Shibaskis Mandal of MICDS.