Sci-Tech
Year 12 scientists from Woodrush
and other local High schools in the
area were challenged to
‘Be Inspired’ as part of
this year’s annual SciTech
conference.
This one day event
held at Redditch NEW
College was opened by
Peter Pawsey, chairman
of Worcestershire Local
Enterprise Partnership
and was supported by
12 local and National
companies including
Rolls Royce, West
Midlands Police
Forensics Service, the
A & E Department of
the Alexandra Hospital
and Zytec Automotive.
Students received
entertaining talks from
two guest speakers,
numerous presentations
from companies showing
how science is used in
industry, took part in
hands-on
workshops and were involved in a live
psychology experiment.
The morning started with a
presentation by Dr Graeme Jones, a
senior lecturer in chemical ecology at
Keele University. Graeme has a passion
for public science and is mad about
molecules and molecular models. He
certainly awoke our nasal senses with
his ‘Sex, Flies and Sticky Tape’ talk
which had us smelling pheromones
produced by moths, bees and even
teenage boys!
Seminars included sessions run by
staff from Alexandra Hospital A and E
department, University of Worcester
Sports Science department, West
Mercia Police Forensic Science team,
Cryogenics with Honeywell-Hymatic,
Engineering an electric super car with
Zytek, nuclear submarines with Rolls
Royce, chemical manufacturing with
TIB chemicals and Fusion Energy
with Culham Centre. They provided a
greater understanding of how science
and technology are used in the
everyday world
and various
careers available to
science students.
The second
guest speaker was
Dr Mark Lewney.
Described as a cross
between Einstein and
Jimi Hendrix, who
uses his rock guitar to
explain the Big Bang
theory, 11 dimensions
of the Universe and
even touch on String
theory. A very loud
and entertaining talk.
Mr Roberts was in his
element whilst I was
just about keeping up!
Workshops saw the
likes of Sean, Josh
and Tom building
a hydraulic arm to
lift a cup of water
over a wall, Abbie, Heidi, Jess and
Page take finger prints and foot
prints from a ‘crime scene’ and Suzie
and Danny identify plants through
chromatography.
The day was rounded off with a
psychometric test to compare how
students with different science or arts
preferences think.
Once again Sci-Tech has been a
thoroughly enjoyable, informative and
entertaining day. Woodrush students
represented the school well and I
was particularly moved to see many
of them instinctively helping visually
impaired students who were attending
for the first time.
I can remember attending a Sci-Tech
day when I did my Science A’Levels in
Redditch ….years ago. Hopefully it will
continue for many more years to come.
Mrs Bush
STEM
Design Tech
Engineering
Success!!!
The Woodrush Young Engineers took
to the limelight on Thursday 9th May
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