STEM Saturdays

This term sees the return of our regular offering of Saturday Science courses for partner schools. During the last three weekends, students from ten maintained schools, spanning not only our local West London Partnerships but also across London, engaged in practical work that stretched beyond the classroom syllabus.

Year 12 Biologists made bacteria glow eerily green by transforming bacteria to use genes from a jellyfish. Year 12 physicists modelled the superposition of waves and observed musical standing waves in the fire of a Ruben’s Tube. Year 10 physicists used LEGO bricks to chart the 14 billion (plus) year lifetime of our Universe, through to the creation of the chemical elements of life as we know it. Next term, Year 12 chemists will tackle a complex set of organic syntheses before creating luminescent glow sticks.