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10 July 2009
On Friday 10th July 2009 Miss Weaver and Ms Vlachakis took 20 Year 10 triple scientists to the first ever Science Trail in Oxford. The event was hosted by Oxford University and started with Magic Maths in the Martin Wood lecture theatre in the Clarendon Building (part of the University’s Physics Department). The students then went to the Physiology Department where they spent an hour learning about blood pressure and trying to find one another’s. They are lucky enough to hold real plasticised brains too!!
After a sunny picnic break in the University parks, we walked to the Dyson Perrin laboratories. Here students did forensic science and used MMR spectroscopy to determine compounds found at a crime scene.
A scrumptious lunch at St Anne’s College was followed by a dynamic Physics Lecture to explain the workings of the CERN electron accelerator near Geneva.
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