20th NATIONAL CHEMISTRY CONTEST for the first time in Milan
The Gara Nazionale di Chimica – the national chemistry contest organised by the Ministry of Education, which has been held since 2002 – is coming to Milan for the first time. The event is reserved for the best fourth-year students at technical institutes specialising in chemistry and it is hosted by the school attended by the winner of the previous edition. The competition was won in 2021 by a young chemist from the Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico Ettore Molinari of Milan, which will therefore have the honour of organising this 20th edition, which will be held on 17 and 18 May 2022.
The Pirelli Foundation, which always strives to promote scientific culture and to make known the company’s constant commitment to research into innovative materials, will be a partner in this event.
While the students tackle the tests, the accompanying teachers will have an opportunity to visit the Pirelli Foundation, which is home to the company’s Historical Archive, where the exhibition Pirelli: When History Builds the Future is currently running. The guided tour will then continue in the chemistry laboratories of the company’s Research and Development Centre. Here experimentation focuses on raw materials from renewable and recycled sources: from natural rubber to silica derived from rice husk ash, to lignin and plasticizers and oils of vegetable origin, through to recycled materials obtained from end-of-life tyres.
This will show the visitors the leading role that, over the decades, Pirelli has played, and still very much plays today, in the scientific and technical development of processes and products.
The Gara Nazionale di Chimica – the national chemistry contest organised by the Ministry of Education, which has been held since 2002 – is coming to Milan for the first time. The event is reserved for the best fourth-year students at technical institutes specialising in chemistry and it is hosted by the school attended by the winner of the previous edition. The competition was won in 2021 by a young chemist from the Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico Ettore Molinari of Milan, which will therefore have the honour of organising this 20th edition, which will be held on 17 and 18 May 2022.
The Pirelli Foundation, which always strives to promote scientific culture and to make known the company’s constant commitment to research into innovative materials, will be a partner in this event.
While the students tackle the tests, the accompanying teachers will have an opportunity to visit the Pirelli Foundation, which is home to the company’s Historical Archive, where the exhibition Pirelli: When History Builds the Future is currently running. The guided tour will then continue in the chemistry laboratories of the company’s Research and Development Centre. Here experimentation focuses on raw materials from renewable and recycled sources: from natural rubber to silica derived from rice husk ash, to lignin and plasticizers and oils of vegetable origin, through to recycled materials obtained from end-of-life tyres.
This will show the visitors the leading role that, over the decades, Pirelli has played, and still very much plays today, in the scientific and technical development of processes and products.