KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

What are food additives and how are they classified? What role did ozone play in the origin of life on Earth? The participants of the Third All-Armenian Tournament of Young

 Chemists tried to find answers to these and other interesting questions. 

 

On October 27, the Physical and Mathematical Specialized School of Yerevan State University hosted the semifinal and final rounds of the Third All-Armenian Tournament of Young Chemists organized by Ayb Educational Foundation.

 

During the team competition, 9-12 grade students demonstrated their abilities and skills of solving complicated and unusual problems in chemistry, presenting them in a convincing way and conducting scientific discussions.

 

This year the jury included lecturers from the Armenian State Pedagogical University (ASPU), Yerevan State University (YSU) and Yerevan State Engineering University (YSEU), young scholars, teachers and other specialists. 

 

As usual, the competition was held with the methodological support of young scientists and graduates of the ASPU Chair of Chemistry and its Teaching Methods.

 

Lecturers of the aforesaid Chair – vice-chairman of the tournament, Ashot Babakhabyan, program director Nina Hobosyan and members of the jury, Varduhi Hovsepyan and Mary Manukyan – participated in the works of the professional committee.

 

Nine teams from different cities of the republic, including Ararat, Noyemberyan, Gyumri, Etchmiadzin, Vanadzor and Yerevan, entered the semifinals of the tournament. 

 

The heated struggle ended in an interesting way:  two teams from Vanadzor and Etchmiadzin, Evrika (Eureka) and Almast respectively, shared the first prize with a total of 119 points. Yerevan’s “Bnaget” (Naturalist) came second. 

 

Artyom Aghababyan, 11th grade student of Vanadzor’s Evrika School, received a prize by Svetlana Hovakimyan, Dean of the ASPU Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geography.

The participants and winners received valuable prizes and thematic books.

 

The quarterfinal of the tournament was held at the Armenian State Pedagogical University in summer, with 17 teams participating in the competition.