The Department of Chemistry is pleased to invite you and your chemistry students to our University of Florida Chemathon annual competition.
This event requires teachers and/or chaperones to be responsible for the care, custody, and control of the minor participants; the University of Florida will not provide supervision. More information can be located at: Youth Compliance – University of Florida
Deadlines
March 20, 2026 = Registration Deadline*
April 17, 2026 = Emergency Contact, Parental Consent Waiver, and Environmental Health and Safety Parental Consent Form Deadline. All completed forms must be sent to chemathon@chem.ufl.edu.
*There is a $10 registration fee for each participant (student, teacher, chaperone); this fee covers breakfast snacks and lunch. Details on how to pay are provided in the registration link. T-shirts are also available for purchase (see below).
Required Forms
Registration Form: Required for each student, teacher, and chaperone.
Emergency Contact Form: Information for your students who will attend. This must be received prior to the day of the event.
Parental Consent Wavier Form: Required for each student.
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Parental Consent Form: This form from EHS will be sent later to registered teams from the Director, so teachers should monitor their emails daily.
Teams register as either Level I or Level II. Each school can bring up to 2 teams of 4 student each.
Level I = Similar to our Intro to Chemistry course (CHM1025) which covers:
- Measurements and units
- Components of matter
- Naming compounds
- Stoichiometry of compounds
- Stoichiometry of reactions
- Three major aqueous reactions
- Calorimetry
- Atomic and electronic structure
- Chemical bonding
Level II = Covers all of Level I and all of General Chemistry (CHM2045):
- Compounds
- Stoichiometry
- Aqueous reactions
- Gases
- Thermochemistry
- Quantum theory
- Electron configuration and periodicity
- Chemical bonding
- Shapes of molecules
- Molecular orbitals (VB, hybridization, MO theory)
- Intermolecular forces
- Solids, liquids, and phase changes
- Mixtures and solutions
