Crime Busters B

[bernard]

[spsgasper]

We are a small school and this is the first year I have students competing in this event. Can anyone share a list of needed materials for the students to bring with them? The list of materials I found seems to have materials that I wouldn't think they would need for this event. Thanks.

[jaspattack]

We are a small school and this is the first year I have students competing in this event. Can anyone share a list of needed materials for the students to bring with them? The list of materials I found seems to have materials that I wouldn't think they would need for this event. Thanks.

Everything on the Recommended Lab Equipment list for Division B (available on soinc.org) is necessary. I would argue that there's nothing on that list you wouldn't use, but it obviously depends on how your students do their tests.

At the bare minimum I would have a spot plate/well plate for testing powders, some small (~250 mL?) beakers for chromatography, a scoopula/spatula, pH paper, and a magnet. I would also really encourage you to have some plastic pipettes as well as microscope slides and covers, but at the very least try to have a well plate and some small beakers. The test tube stuff is kind of optional (I personally never really used test tubes that much) but a spot plate is genuinely essential to success in this event because qualitative analysis sections are worth so much of your final score.