This past spring, the Chemical Society of Washington welcomed over 140 local high school students into the official reboot of the Chemistry Olympiad competition. The co-coordinators (Lauren Ragle, Eva-Marie Rudler, and Savannah Shumaker) worked diligently to communicate with local high school teachers who already had students sign up for the […]
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HMChO will be offering a contest to inspire more students to be passionate about chemistry. Registration is totally free and more details can be found at www.hmcho.org. The competition is open to all high school students in grades 9 through 12 worldwide. While the Olympiad primarily targets students in the United States, international students […]
The 2025 US National Chemistry Olympiad is around the corner! Every year, high school students from around the country participate in this exciting challenge. From the local exam, we can submit up to 17 students to participate in the national exam. From there, the top 20 students participate in an […]
The US Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) provides a coaching program to help prepare students for the USNCO local and national exams. Coaching sessions will be hosted on Zoom and coordinated by ACS on Fridays every other week in January and February 2025. The coaching sessions start with a 30 minute tutorial […]
Exciting News! Registration for the Local Section Exam of the 2022 USNCO is now open. This year, we are again offering the exam digitally through the ACS Learning Environment with multiple options for proctoring. The test will be administered on March 19 beginning at 10 am in various locations throughout […]
As with so many other planned events this year, the Covid-19 Pandemic had its effect on the U.S. High School Chemistry Olympiad in its 37th year. This is an annual program for high school students organized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and was forced to become a virtual program […]
The CSW High School Chemistry Olympiad for 2020 will begin in early February. The letter introducing the Olympiad will be emailed to those high school chemistry teachers for whom we have an email address. This letter will ask for student nominations to take the Local Section Examination at their school […]
By Regina Cody, 2018 Chemistry Olympiad Coordinator The U.S. High School Chemistry Olympiad is an annual program for high school students that has been organized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) since 1984. The Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) is proud that it is one of 17 Local Sections that has participated […]
The USNCO seeks a Chemistry Olympiad College Mentor. Some of the duties and responsibilities associated with this position are: helping to conduct a two-week study camp for the nation’s brightest twenty chemistry high school students for the following years: 2019, 2020 and 2021, developing practice problems, theoretical and practical tests […]
Contributed by Regina Cody, Chemistry Olympiad Coordinator The U.S. High School Chemistry Olympiad is an annual program for high school students that has been organized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) since 1984. The Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) is proud that it is one of 17 Local Sections that […]