USNCO Webinars & Other Support
Webinars for Students
Applying to College as a USNCO Participant Fact sheet for USNCO participants completing college applications | |
| USNCO Exam Annotation Project Presenter: Steven Chen, Princeton LS Pannelists: Ritvik Teegavarapu, Caltech, CA, Luke Chen, Blue Valley North High School, KS, Yiwei Liang, PRISMS, NJ. | |
| Introduction To The USNCO For Students Presenter: Christine Saber, Erie LS. Panelists: Beatrice Salazar, Maryland LS; Mitk'El Santiago, Puerto Rico LS; And Yitian Zhu, 2021 IChO Gold Medalist. | |
| Preparing For The USNCO Local Section Exam For Students Presenter: Esther Hines, Northeastern LS. Panelists: Monica Arroyo, Puerto Rico LS; Denis Merat, Memphis LS; And Andrew Wu, 2018 IChO Gold Medalist | |
| Preparing For The USNCO National Exam For Students Presenters: Joshua Pak, Idaho LS And Steve Lantos, Northeastern LS. Panelists: Steven Chen, Princeton LS; Derek Chien, USNCO Alumnus; Alec Zhu, 2020 IChO Gold Medalist | |
| Preparing for the National Exam Part III for Students Presenter: Steve Lantos, Northeastern LS, Panelists: Kelli Slunt, Virginia LS, Michael Bruno, North Carolina LS | |
| Interactive Workshop: How to Learn Chemistry, for High School Students Saundra McGuire, Baton Rouge LS |
Webinars for Coordinators
| Webinar Topic | |
|---|---|
| USNCO Introduction to USNCO for New Coordinators Monica Arroyo, Puerto Rico LS, Sviatoslav Baranets, Baton Rouge LS, Greta Glugoski, Colorado LS, Ram Sabnis, Georgia LS | |
| Serving as a USNCO Coordinator Heather Abbott-Lyon, Georgia LS | |
| How to Recruit Students for the USNCO Craig McClure, Philadelphia LS, Dennis Merat, Memphis LS | |
| How to Help Students Prepare for USNCO Steve Lantos, Northeastern LS, Ethan Schnell, California LS | |
| Marketing And Promotion Of The USNCO Program For Coordinators Mitk'El Santiago, Monica Arroyo, Puerto Rico LS |
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USNCO Teacher Training Course
The USNCO Teacher Training Course is an online, self-paced course in the ACS Learning Center that offers supplementary knowledge often not covered by a typical high school chemistry curriculum, useful when preparing for the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Exams. The course materials are primarily designed to support high school chemistry teachers but they can be also used by the students preparing for the competition.
The course has 10 units related to the topics covered by the USNCO exam. Each unit is designed to be completed in about 40 minutes to 1 hour. After completing each unit of the course, you can receive a certificate for that unit.
Please sign up to contribute content for the Teachers Training Course.
The USNCO Teacher Training Course is a cooperative project of the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad program. There are a lot of topics that are not covered yet, and we would like to invite high school teachers, and college and industry professionals to contribute to this resource. If you are interested in preparing and recording a short lecture, have resources that you would like to share, please sign up below for a topic that you would like to cover. You will be provided with the templates to use for the presentation.
All contributors to the course are being acknowledged on the USNCO website and can request to receive a special letter from the USNCO program describing their involvement in this project.
Please contact the USNCO office at usnco@acs.org if you have questions.
USNCO Coaching
The USNCO Coaching program helps high school students improve their chemistry skills and become more competitive for the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad. Students receive extra help during 2-hour sessions for small groups, led by coaches from across the U.S. Coaching sessions are organized over Zoom and coordinated by the American Chemical Society.
Coaching sessions will last for two hours on Fridays every other week in January and February of each year. At each session 30 minute tutorials are be followed by 1 hour and 30 minutes of small group work in breakout room.
USNCO Preparation Hub
This forum is open to anyone interested in the USNCO. Please feel free to share your favorite resources, ask questions of our volunteers, or share comments/suggestions for annotated solution guides in the relevant forums. You only need an ACS ID to login and join the conversation (a member number is not required).
Before you begin, please review these guidelines. ACS does not directly endorse any resources shared here that were not produced by the ACS. For details of the competition in your local area, such as exam dates and times, contact your coordinator.
