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On Saturday 6th February, a team of Year 12 and 13 students from Camp Hill Boys won the second Chemistry Race competition, hosted online by the Yusuf Hamied Chemistry Department at Cambridge University. Teams of 3-5 sixth form students compete in solving chemistry-related problems in real time. The goal of each team is to answer as many questions as they can within the two-hour time limit. Once a question is answered successfully, the team is presented with a new one and a live leaderboard is updated. Half an hour before the race ends, the ranking is hidden and the final winners are announced at the closing ceremony. The questions range from easy riddles through to A-level difficulty tasks, to complex chemical problems. Any books, notes or other paper literature are allowed as the problems mainly aim to test problem solving skills and chemical understanding, rather than knowledge. The King Edward VI Camp Hill Boys team consisted of Andrew Lim, Zac Maguire, Miles Balderson, Deniz Yoruk-Mikhailov and Aarondeep Singh, otherwise known as 'The Standard Solutions'. They competed against 48 schools from across the country and after two hours of frenetic problem solving the team managed to offer thirty-seven solutions, scoring an impressive 135 points, seventeen points clear of second place Radley College.