Salters Challenge Winners 2010
Competing against sixteen other schools from across the South-East, the teamwork, knowledge and scientific skills of Year 7 students Henry Yates, Alexander Wood, Alistair Wilson and Michael Johnson shone through.
They gained a prestigious first prize in the Oxford University Challenge, with their chemical clock reaction coming within 5 seconds of the desired result.
They were awarded a series of fun chemistry prizes and won over £100 of science resources for the school. The team were then entertained by a colourful and explosive chemistry demonstration by Dr Hugh Cartwright, which kept them fully enthralled.
The day was rounded off with the students receiving a VIP tour of the Chemical Research laboratory by former Cotswold School student Becky Maksyomiwcz who is undertaking a PhD there. They got to see a vast variety of expensive analytical equipment and found the whole experience "really cool", but especially so when they had liquid nitrogen poured over them.
Thanks are due to The Salter’s Institute, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Oxford University Chemistry Department for inviting us, once again, to participate in such a fantastic educational event.
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