All demonstrations are now booked for this term’s events. In early October Whitefield School in Barnet are hosting their first “Chemistry at Work” day and at the end of October the three-day Junior “REAL SCIENCE” event in Milton Keynes has all school places booked too. However, schools still interested in attending this event please contact me in case any more space can be… Read More »
As ever, my grateful thanks go to the demonstrators. The students clearly enjoyed learning about the wide range of activities and potential careers with connections to Chemistry and the demonstrators were impressed with their attitude and interest. Dr Paul Myatt, Head of Science, was pleased with how their “Chemistry at Work” day went and and has already provisionally booked it again for… Read More »
This year’s event was attended by nearly 350 students aged 12 to 16 . As usual, they came from Special, Comprehensive, Upper and Private Schools in Milton Keynes, Newport Pagnell, Buckingham, Bedford, Luton and Wing. Here is a letter I received afterwards from Dr Rae FRSCI and Head of Chemistry at Ousedale School who came to the event and sent students on all three days. Dear… Read More »
Tring School hosted their second Chemistry at Work day and want to book the event again for next year. We had a new young demonstrator Farzan Fassihi-Tash from C B & I who’s demonstration entitled “The Journey of Oil” surprised many of the students by the breadth of his subject and we were grateful to Sarah Douglas who spent the… Read More »
This was the first time Aylesbury College had hosted Chemistry at Work. The day proved popular and the college would like to host it again next year. The interests of the groups varied, due to the different courses the students were following, so next year we will look at linking specific demonstrations more closely to the courses.
Once again the annual Chemistry at Work event at AGS was a great success and this time we had a new demonstrator Karley Weir who joined our team from TrichoCare and explained the chemistry of hair and the dangers of hair dyes with her demonstration entitled “Lovely Hair – Painful Skin. We had enough demonstrations on the day for… Read More »
We already have twelve Chemistry at Work days confirmed this year. They comprise the two annual three-day events at the Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre (for Secondary Schools, and Junior Schools, demonstrator spaces) and six school-based days at: Ashton Middle School (full), Aylesbury Grammar School (full), Aylesbury College (full), Tring School (demonstrator spaces), John Colet School (full) and Princes Risborough School (demonstrator spaces).… Read More »