Congratulations to the members of the Israeli delegation to the Mendeleev Olympics in Chemistry for their achievements in the Olympics. The training of the students for the Chemistry Olympics is held at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, led by Prof. Zeev Gross and under the direction of the head coach, Dr. Izna Nigel Ettinger.
The Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with the participation of 91 competitors from 16 countries. These are the members of the Israeli delegation trained at the Technion: Noya Dishon, a 12th-grade student at ORT Psagot, Karmiel; Liora Karni, a 12th-grade student at the Yitzhak Rabin School, Modiin Maccabim; Nir Cohen, 12th-grade student At the Gimnasia Realit, Rishon Lezion; Tal Sasson, an 11th-grade student at Givol School, Hadera; Neta David Eiger, an 11th-grade student at Shaked Darca School, Emek HaMaainot; and Shon Hanetz, an 11th-grade student from the Rabin Education Campus, Gan Yavne.
The winner of the gold medal is Nir Cohen, who won a silver medal in this competition last year. Bronze medals were won by Liora Karni, Shon Hantz and Tal Sasson.
The Olympics project for high school students is the result of a joint venture between the Future Scientists center (Maimonities) and the Ministry of Education. The members of the delegation were accompanied by laboratory engineer Gabriela Halevi (head of the delegation), doctoral student Alex Korontov from the Technion, and Dagan Ashash, the educational advisor to the Israeli science teams.The Mendeleev Olympics have been held for 56 years, and Israel joined the competition in 2016. According to Prof. Gross, head of the youth programs at the Faculty of Chemistry, “The importance of participating in the Mendeleev Olympics goes beyond experience and winning, because it prepares and hardens students for IChO – the International Chemistry Olympiad, in which participate 84 countries. We are proud of the students and wish everyone a similar or even more success, in the IChO that will take place in less than a month.