Dr. Chen taught high school and college-level chemistry courses as a classroom teacher and competition coach in both China and United States. He accumulated ample experience in stimulating and guiding gifted students to achieve excellence in chemistry.

Dr. Chen really enjoy guiding students in challenging topics and problem-solving in organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, physical chemistry, and inorganic chemistry. He also translated a bunch of competition problems from different countries, including recent 10 years of Mendeleev International Chemistry Olympiad (in Russian) into Chinese and English.

Under Dr. Chen's guidance, dozens of students got awards in national chemistry olympiad, more than ten students advanced into the study camp in China and United States.

So for now, Dr. Chen is more like a “MOTIVATOR” or a "MENTOR" – making a few students around to realize, develop and maximize their potentials, and then achieve excellent in chemistry.

Education Philosophy

Dr. Chen's mentoring philosophy

• 贤者以其昭昭使人昭昭 - 孟子

Virtuous men, in instructing others, get themselves enlightened first, and then try to enlighten others with their enlightenment. - by Mencius

Dr. Chen's learning philosophy

• I hear I forget, I see I remember, I do I understand.

Website History

• Jan, 2018 - The website was online;

• Feb, 2018 - The learning objective and annotation of 2017 local were added;

• Mar, 2018 - The first online mentoring session was done;

• Apr, 2018 - The 1st PRISMS Spring Camp - Chemistry Olympiad was done with great success;

• Mar, 2019 - The test annotation of local and national part I 2016-18 was added;

• Mar, 2019 - Dr. Chen's Google Classroom for Chemistry Olympiad (joining code: wkrag9w) was online;

• Mar, 2019 - Dr. Chen's Youtube Channel (https://goo.gl/TqfAoM) for Chemistry Olympiad was online;

• Mar 31, 2019 - Dr. Chen's website got more than 1.44k visiting/month;

• Apr, 2019 - The 2nd PRISMS Spring Camp - Chemistry Olympiad was done with great success;

• Jan, 2020 - The daily challenge series for chemistry olympiad is online in yuque;

• Feb, 2020 - The key to the IChO 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey is updated in yuque;

• Mar, 2020 - The website was renamed into "Friends of Chemistry Olympiad" with a domain of "focho.us"

• Oct, 2020 - The website was reorganized with the youtube channel added.