TY - JOUR AU - Perret, Didier AU - Hagemann, Hans AU - Černý, Radovan AU - Renner, Christoph AU - Giannini, Enrico AU - Guénée, Laure AU - Besnard, Céline AU - Gérard, David AU - Windels, Lionel PY - 2014/12/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Crystal-clear – The '2014 Most Superlative Crystal Growth Contest' for School Classes: Conference Report JF - CHIMIA JA - Chimia VL - 68 IS - 12 SE - Columns, Conference Reports DO - 10.2533/chimia.2014.893 UR - https://www.chimia.ch/chimia/article/view/2014_893 SP - 893 AB - To celebrate the International Year of Crystallography among the general public, a consortium of chemists, physicists and crystallographers of the University of Geneva organised in Spring 2014 an incentive crystal growth contest for Geneva scholars aged 4 to 19. Starting from a kit containing a salt and user instructions, classes had to prepare a crystal that met specific criteria according to their category of age. The composition of the salt – potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) – was only disclosed to the participants during the final Awards Ceremony. This contest positively exceeded our expectations with almost 100 participating classes (ca. 1800 participants) and 54 specimens received over all categories. ER -