USNCO Webinars & Other Support

USNCO Webinars

A series of USNCO webinars for coordinators, teachers, and/or students to help them prepare for the competition. The schedule, topic, links to registartion or archived recordings are below.

Webinars for Students

    

Applying to College as a USNCO Participant 
Presenter: Steve Lantos, Northeastern LS.
Panelists: Chris Peterson, MIT Admissions, Esther Hines, Northeastern LS, Brent Shenton, Orange County LS,

Fact sheet for USNCO participants completing college applications  

October 12, 20237:00 PM ET 
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.
November 15, 20227:00 PM ET 
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.
October 22, 2021
7:00 PM ET
 
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
November 19, 20217:00 PM ET 
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
December 10, 20217:00 PM ET 
Preparing for the National Exam Part III for Students
Presenter: Steve Lantos, Northeastern LS,
Panelists: Kelli Slunt, Virginia LS, Michael Bruno, North Carolina LS
March 10, 2022

7:00 PM ET 
Interactive Workshop: How to Learn Chemistry, for High School Students 
Saundra McGuire, Baton Rouge LS
2020-2021  

Webinars for Coordinators

Webinar TopicDateTime 
Serving as a USNCO Coordinator 
Heather Abbott-Lyon, Georgia LS
2020-2021  
How to Recruit Students for the USNCO 
Craig McClure, Philadelphia LS and Dennis Merat, Memphis LS 
2020-2021  
How to Help Students Prepare for USNCO 
Steve Lantos, Northeastern LS and Ethan Schnell, California LS
2020-2021  
Marketing And Promotion Of The USNCO Program For Coordinators
Presenters: Mitk'El Santiago And Monica Arroyo, Puerto Rico LS
December 17, 20217:00 PM ET 

Closed captioning is available for webinar recordings by choosing the CC icon in the navigation bar.

USNCO Teacher 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.

Please sign up to contribute content for the Teachers Training Course.

Submit topic, name and email here.

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.

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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.

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