Starting to Plan for the 2011 New Jersey Chemistry Olympics

Last evening I had a meeting with Borislaw Bilash and others from NJIT and local high schools to start planning the event from May 18, 2011.  The official web site at http://sites.google.com/site/njchemistryolympics/home is still under construction, but will be revised in January 2011.  We discussed several events that will be held.  As usual I will be leading Event #7 Information Search and Molecular Model Building.  The theme this year will be Top-Selling Pharmaceuticals.  I found the list in the 2010 Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook.  The teams participating in this event will have to construct a model of one of six molecules that I selected from that list.  In the second part of the event they will have to answer questions from the Internet or a list of databases about the drug compounds.  I am sure that the event will be a rewarding experience as it has been in the past.