Salters’ Festival of Chemistry

This week we once again played host to the Salters Festival of Chemistry. This is an annual event which brings together schools from all over East and West Sussex and some in Surrey and Kent as well.

They had an entertaining day starting with an introduction to chemistry and Brighton and where chemistry can take you. Then it was on to the first practical activity, The Salters’ Challenge. This was a murder mystery where the pupils used our laboratories and equipment to idenitfy some unknown substances and nail the suspect. Some great forensic sleuthing from all involved!

After lunch was the University Challenge (not the quiz show!). This involved identifying functional groups and testing chemicals to produce a spectrum of colour. Then both pupils and their teachers were treated to a Chemical Magic show from our very own Professor Hal Sosabowski.

Final part of the day was the prizegiving. All of the schools performed very well and there were some tough decsions for the judges. Final results were:

Salters’ Challenge University Challenge
1st Farlington School, Horsham Brighton College, Brighton
2nd The Hawthorns School, Bletchingley Christ’s Hospital School, Horsham
3rd Priory School, Lewes Lavant House, Chichester

We hope everyone that came enjoyed their day and saw how exciting university chemistry can be. Thanks to all of our staff involved with the day and for the schools for being so keen and enthusiastic. We’ll see you next year!

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