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![The National Chemistry Olympiad has several rounds of exams and tests students on a number of different chemistry topics. “The first part [of the test] is pen and paper, and then I think [for] the two [students] that get selected to go on to the nationals, there’s a lab component of that,” chemistry teacher Mr. Adam Smolinsky said. “I think most students take it just because they’re interested in chemistry, and here at TJ students are also really interested in competition, so I think that they like to show off how much they know.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Chem-Olympiad-V1-resize-900x675.jpg)
![Sophomores Jeanie Qi (left) and Sofia Najjar (right) prepare ice cream and milkshakes to sell to the students browsing the marketplace. “I went to the first [FBLA] meeting last year, and that was fun and I’m interested in marketing and business so I stayed at marketplace,” Najjar said. “We sold milkshakes and brownies, and we ran out of everything really quickly, so we just sold as much as we can.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_9968.jpg)
![Writopia Lab manager Lucian Mattison oversees students working on a poetry activity in the library on Wednesday, Oct. 23. “I believe writing has a lot of benefits, even if it is just creative, that we kind of don’t really give enough credit [to it],” Mattison said. “Where in prose, narrative prose [and] poetry, on top of just the expression of the self and the expression of personal voice, we also tend to not emphasize enough that within prose and the creation and craft of prose, there’s a lot of technical stuff that goes into it.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/IMG_9645.jpg)