The annual Battle of the Burets titration face-off will be hosted again this year by SIU–Edwardsville on Monday, February 24th in 2075 Science West. Pizza begins at 6:00 pm; then pizzas-down, goggles-on buret-wielding at 6:30. Each school may send up to two teams of two students each. Each student will do three individual titrations; the […]
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
Save the date: Feb 25, 2019! The annual Battle of the Burets titration face-off will be hosted again this year by SIU–Edwardsville. Registration and pizza begin at 6:00 pm; then pizzas-down, goggles-on buret-wielding at 6:30. Each school may send up to two teams of two students each. Each student will do three individual titrations; the
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
SIU–Edwardsville will once again host the annual Battle of the Burets, on Monday, February 12, 2018, from 6:00pm – 8:30pm in Science West (New Science Bldg), Room 3300. The annual titration face-off open to teams of high school chemistry students, kicks off with registration and pizza at 6:00 pm, hands-on preliminary rounds of buret-wielding at
For the second year in a row, the Battle of the Burets was hosted by SIU–Edwardsville. On Tuesday, February 16, 24 two-person teams from 10 area high schools competed in the event. Each student performed three titrations, and team scores were composites based on their accuracy. The student teams with the best scores received trophies
On Tuesday, February 24, 34 students from eight area high schools competed in the “Battle of Burets.” This year, the Battle was held in the new Science West building at the SIU–Edwardsville campus. Along with the new location, a new competition procedure was also developed. Students competed in teams of two students, but each student
On Wednesday, February 20th, 20 teams from 10 local high schools participated in the Battle of the Burets competition at St Louis Community College–Florissant Valley. The top team from each of three preliminary rounds—Parkway West, Villa Duschesne, and Westminster Christian Academy—advanced to the winner-take-all championship round. Rachel Arnold and Mary Hogan of Villa Duschesne took
On Wednesday, February 29th, 21 teams from 12 local high schools participated in the Battle of the Burets competition at St Louis Community College–Florissant Valley. The top team from each of three preliminary rounds—Kirkwood, MICDS and Clayton—advanced to the winner-take-all championship round. Daniel Kaganov and Adrienne Brauch from MICDS took top honors. Place Teammates School
