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FSC chemistry department announces
annual Chemathon results

LAKELAND, Fla. (April 28, 2003) - Florida Southern College's chemistry department, in cooperation with the Lakeland Subsection of the American Chemical Society (ACS), hosted the annual Chemathon on Friday. Sixty-one high school students from Brevard, Manatee, and Polk counties competed for prizes, furnished by ACS.

Chemathon is a written and oral competition among students divided into two categories: honors chemistry and advanced placement. Local schools included All Saints Academy, Bartow High School International Baccalaureate Program, George Jenkins High School, Lakeland Christian School, and Winter Haven High School.

Written exam winners:

Honors category:

• First: David Demosthenes - Lakeland Christian School
• Second: Ravi Patel - Bartow High IB Program
• Third: Terrance Kibble - Palm Bay High School
  

Advanced Placement category:

• First: Matt Burnstein - Palm Bay High School
• Second: Eric Dameron - Palm Bay High School
• Third: Alek Nikdel - Winter Haven High School

Quiz bowl winners:

• Bartow IB - Orange team, White and Blue team
• Manatee - Blue team
• Palm Bay - Beakerneers, Plasmatics, and Raiders of the Lost Flask teams

Overall team scores:

• First: Palm Bay Beakerneers Team (E. Dameron, R. Findlay, M. Burnstein, and K. Hoang)
• Second: Bartow IB Orange team (C. Byrd, S. Fahey, D. Melton, and A. Wales)
• Third: Bartow IB White team (K. Casell, G. Oates, and L. Shah)

The ACS Students Affiliate at FSC assisted in the event giving tours of the college, and reading questions, keeping scores and timing during the quiz bowl. Judges for the quiz bowl included members of the biology and chemistry departments, the USDA laboratory and SunPure.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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