Loughborough students up to the test

The winners from Loughborough Grammar School

A team of Year 12 chemists from Loughborough Grammar School win the coveted National Schools' Analyst Competition shield.

During the summer a team of Year 12 chemists from Loughborough Grammar School won the coveted National Schools' Analyst Competition shield, and £750 for their school, at the 2008 final held at Bangor University in North Wales. Sponsored and run by the Royal Society of Chemistry's (RSC) Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund, with additional support from other RSC interest groups, Gaia Technologies, LGC, Sigma-Aldrich and Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostic, the competition is open to teams of three AS-level or equivalent chemistry students. 

This year 16 teams from schools and colleges across the UK competed in the final, the Loughborough team of Andrew Zhao, Nikesh Sharma and Kunaal Shah proving too strong for finalists from Bristol Grammar School and Manchester Grammar School, which claimed the £500 second-place and £250 third-place prizes respectively. Following consultations with the managers of the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund, an additional £250 third-place prize was awarded to a team from Stockton-on-Tees Sixth Form College, which came a very close fourth. The individual team members for the first three teams all received book tokens, and the team from Stockton received copies of the RSC book, The age of the molecule (introduced within the article with a brief synopsis and contents).

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