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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 2007  > October  >
Chemistry for Everyone
A College-Sponsored Laboratory Skills Contest for High-School Students: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Arthur M. Last, Aileen Ablog, Shawn Millar, Gordon von Hollen, and Jane Webb
Department of Chemistry, University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M8, Canada

Shawna Dyck
Department of Chemistry, University College of the Fraser Valley, Chilliwack, BC V2P 6T4, Canada
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October 2007
Vol. 84 No. 10
p. 1640
Abstract
Over the past ten years, the Department of Chemistry at the University College of the Fraser Valley has sponsored an annual laboratory skills contest for local Grade 12 high-school students as part of its Chemistry Week celebrations. The organizational details of the contest, its objectives, successes, and short-comings are discussed.
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A list of all the experiments used in the contest, complete with references to the appropriate source material is available.
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Last, Arthur M.; Ablog, Aileen; Millar, Shawn; von Hollen, Gordon; Webb, Jane; Dyck, Shawna. J. Chem. Educ. 2007, 84, 1640.
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Keywords
High School / Introductory Chemistry; Public Understanding / Outreach
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9/7/2007
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