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IET Faraday Challenge Day for Year 8

A huge well done to our year 8 team that represented Wimbledon High School in the IET Faraday Challenge Day 2018. Maria, Zoe, Maddie, Cordelia, Priya and Alisha competed against teams from Tolworth Girls’ School and Hollyfield School to creatively solve a problem posed to them by the challenge day leader. As other schools are yet to compete in the challenge the exact nature of the task is top secret, but it was all to do with the James Webb Telescope. Well done to all involved – it was a fabulous day and a great opportunity to work with girls from other schools and develop teamwork and problem solving skills.

 

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New Scientist Live – Year 9 Academic Scholars’ are taken out of this world!

On Thursday 20th September, fifteen of our Year 9 Academic Scholars’ had the chance to attend the New Scientist Live festival at ExCel London for a jam-packed day of science and technology, hearing from some of the biggest names in the industry.

The girls immersed themselves into a range of live talks and activities from racing salt water cars to hearing first-hand from astronaut Tim Peake about his out of Earth experiences!

Thank you to Scientist in Residence, Mrs Alex Farrer for organising and assisting the girls on such an inspiring STEAM trip.

Follow the @STEAM_WHS to see more ongoings within the department.

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Explore Lecture: Moon or Mars – where next for humans?

Alex Farrer, one of our Scientists in Residence delivered an Explore lecture about the challenges that space exploration present. The audience voted at the end of the lecture to say whether they though humans should now target the Moon, Mars, right here on Earth or somewhere else entirely… The winner was: Mars!

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