Abstract

Four high school students have been selected to represent the U.S. in the 49th International Chemistry Olympiad in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, on July 6–15. The U.S. team was finalized after an intensive, two-week Chemistry Olympiad Study Camp, sponsored by ACS and held at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. The students are Steven Liu of Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, Calif.; Joshua Park of Lexington High School in Massachusetts; Harrison Wang of Hinsdale Central High School in Illinois; and Brendan Yap of Carmel High School in Indiana. Jeffrey Shi of Marcellus High School in New York is the first alternate. Aniket Dehadrai of Oklahoma School of Science & Mathematics in Oklahoma City is the second alternate. “This is one of the strongest groups we have seen,” says mentor Michael Danahy, a lecturer in chemistry at Bowdoin College. “They came in really well prepared in all aspects of

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