BHASVIC's Participation in the Royal Society of Chemistry's Schools Analyst Competition

Recently, 24 of our first-year students took part in the annual Royal Society of Chemistry's Schools Analyst Competition. Based on a fictitious but plausible forensic problem (this year it was a murder!), they use a range of advanced chemical techniques to nail the "perpetrator "and assist the police with their enquiries! We used thin layer chromatography and redox titrations to link evidence based on innocuous personal items like lipstick, hand cream and coffee found at the "murder scene" to empirical conclusions as to who was (or wasn't) there out of the "suspects"!

This video explains what took place: https://youtu.be/eyDgNX5kkbo

Here are some of the students who came in first place:

Arsen Kinaryan, Hamed Amin-Hefaity and Rudi Burrell.

Second place:

• Abi Kimber
• Rachel Badain
• Angela Lin

Third place: 

• Celeste Howard
• Daisy Harrison
• Lola Gosling-Daly