Top of the Bench east Midlands regional finals

By Sarah Parkin2014-01-23T00:00:00

Success for Nottingham High School team

Ten teams of four students from across the east Midlands competed at the regional finals of the Royal Society of Chemistry's Top of the Bench chemistry competition at Derby University on Saturday 18 January.

To get to this stage, the teams had already ranked in the top three in their local competition heats, which had involved a chemistry quiz. The regional finals involved another challenging theory paper, as well as a practical challenge in which the students had to ‘Save Dr Who’s TARDIS’ by setting up a cooling reaction to reach a specific temperature in exactly one minute.

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