10 THING MUST KNOW ICHO (REV ED‪)‬

This is a book dedicated to special groups in the community whom we reach out to promote chemistry interest and learning chemistry. It will be immensely useful to students, parents who are interested in Science Olympiads, Chemistry Olympiad, chemistry instructors at the secondary and collegiate level, and other science instructors at the secondary and collegiate level. This is a one-of-a-kind book that details the 'behind-the-scenes' preparation and trainings that students undergo in various countries. It will enable the effective promotion of chemistry in your respective countries and around the globe. Contents: Editorial Team Preface Acknowledgement Forewords Introduction to the IChO: What is the International Chemistry Olympiad (I-Jy Chang) The IChO Syllabus (Fun Man Fung & I-Jy Chang) A Perspective on Setting Practical Problems at the IChO: Fostering Student Engagement in Experimental Design (Seth N Brown) The IChO Theoretical Exam (Petra Ménová) How Various Countries Train Their Students: Taiwan (I-Jy Chang & Elise Y Li) United States of America (J L Kiappes & Christine A Saber) Venezuela (Amalia Torrealba, Alessandro Trigilio & César Urbina) France (Clément Guibert & Aurélien Moncomble) Slovenia (Andrej Godec) Singapore (Matthias Liau Yi Quan & Fun Man Fung) Switzerland (Dominic T Egger & Patrik O Willi) Strategies to Support IChO Preparations: Tips for Aspiring Participants (Baptiste Haddou) How Can We Inspire and Motivate Our Students to Study Natural Science and Chemistry? (Per Lindgren) How a Teacher Has Supported His Students (Andy Taylor) Application of Learning Sciences to Improve Performance in Chemistry (Fun Man Fung) Perspectives from Question Setters: The Return of a Former IChO Candidate (Cuong Vu Viet) Sample Problems of Organic Chemistry and Approach to Solve Them (Nobuhiro Kihara) Behind the Scenes: A Journey at the IChO: Day by Day Events Analysis (Day 1 – Day 10) (Anne Szymczak & Fun Man Fung) Behind the Scenes: IChO Steering Committee (Fun Man Fung & I-Jy Chang) Testimony from Former IChO Participants (& Mentor): Testimony from Former IChO Participant — Singapore: Part I (Bingjian Li) Part II (Matthias Liau Yi Quan) An Unusual Journey in an Unusual Year: My IChO 2020 Experience (Charles Windle) Testimony from Former IChO Participant — USA (Steven Liu) From IChO1990 to IChO2019 (Ekasith Somsook) An Ongoing Chemistry Olympiad Journey from a Three-time Olympian (Magdalena Lederbauer) Only the End of the Beginning… (Ben S Pilgrim) My Journey as an IChO Mentor — A Leadership Lesson for Me (Fun Man Fung) Photo Memories of IChO Index Readership: Students, parents who are interested in Science Olympiad, in particular Chemistry Olympiad; Chemistry instructors at the secondary and collegiate level; Other science instructors at the secondary and collegiate level. I-Jy, Professor at National Taiwan Normal University, received her PhD from Michigan State University and had two postdoc experiences at Brookhaven National Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, USA, respectively. Her research focuses on photochemistry and Bioinorganic Chemistry. I-Jy was a Visiting Professor at Yamagata University, Japan, in 2015 and 2019. She was an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry from 2008 to 2010.Recently, she has been developing portable experiment kits to promote chemical education. I-Jy is a long-term IChO mentor for team Taiwan. She was a member of the Steering Committee for IChO since 2011 and was the Chair of the Steering Committee from 2017 to 2018.Fun Man is a Singaporean lecturing Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He earned his PhD from NUS and MSc. from NUS and Technical University of Munich. Fun Man is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board (2021-present) of the Journal of Chemical Education, ACS Publications. He served on IChO steering committee for two terms (2014-2018). His research focuses on Digital Education in Chemistry and Learning Communities,...