This exam may test a broad set of general chemical concepts, requiring both numerical answers or written justification. The span of topics will closely follow that of the individual exams from WUCT 2018, but condensed into a single 1-hour exam.
1st Place
Yannik Singh
2nd Place
Iris Yan
3rd Place
Alec Zhu
4th Place
Andrew Wu
5th Place
Anu Chemparathy
6th Place
Jenny Zhao
7th Place
Max Guo
8th Place
Robbie Ge
9th Place
Zhuoyuan Li
10th Place
Allen Ding
11th place
Varun Chheda
12th Place
Jenny Cai
13th Place
Sruthi Parthasarathi
14th Place
Richard Yin
15th Place
Benjamin Tang
A group of two students will work together on this exam. The topic exam centered around cleaning will focus on the incorporation of chemistry into daily and industrial cleaning agents with the end goal of educating students on how these ubiquitous objects work from a chemical perspective.
1st Place
Carmel High School 1
2nd Place
Park Tudor 1
3rd Place
Carmel High School 2
4th Place
H. Vanadium Team
5th Place
H. Cobalt Team
A group of two students will work together on this exam. Introductory chemical principles will be applied to various mediums of art. Prior knowledge of drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. will not be required to successfully complete this exam.
1st Place
Park Tudor 1
2nd Place
H. Lanthanum Team
3rd Place
Carmel High School 1
4th Place
H. Vanadium Team
5th Place
H. Silicon Team
A group of two students will work together on this exam. This exam will test basic chemical principles as they relate to the chemistry of marine environments, including but not limited to its constituents, ecology, and climate change.
1st Place
Buckeye Team
2nd Place
Park Tudor 1
3rd Place
H. Iridium Team
4th Place
Carmel High School 1
5th Place
The Altamont School
Like the individual round, this exam may test a broad set of general chemical concepts. As all six students are allowed to work on this exam, though, the questions will require more in-depth interrogation of the ideas behind each problem. Sample problems are from WUCT 2018, but the exam format and topics covered will be similar.
1st Place
Park Tudor 1
2nd Place
Carmel High School 1
3rd Place
Buckeye Team
4th Place
Carmel High School 2
5th Place
H. Lanthanum Team
6th Place
H. Selenium Team
7th Place
H. Iridium Team
8th Place
The Altamont School
9th Place
Clayton High School
10th Place
Zionsville Community High School
Each team will choose a packet of 3 questions of a certain level of difficulty (easy, medium, hard) to answer at a time. Upon completion of the questions, the entire packet will be turned in and a new question set can be chosen, at any difficulty level. These questions will be drawn from a broad range of general chemistry topics. Sample problems are from WUCT 2018, but the exam format and topics covered will be similar.
1st Place
Buckeye Team
2nd Place
Park Tudor 1
3rd Place
Carmel High School 1
4th Place
H. Selenium Team
5th Place
Troy High School 1
6th Place
H. Lanthanum Team
7th Place
Carmel High School 2
8th Place
Ladue Horton Watkins High School
9th Place
Palo Alto High School
10th Place
Park Tudor 2