Why Science?

Students from Bebington High Sports College were given an exciting opportunity to see the vast range of career possibilities that are accessible to them by taking GCE advanced levels in Science. The seven year 9 students went to a “Why Science” conference at the CLC last week to take part in four interactive workshops and also a “Meet the scientist” research activity.

The conference was aimed at students who have the potential to take advanced levels but have not decided to take science for post 16 education. The activities they took part in were designed to help students make up their minds by providing information about the range of opportunities that are opened to them.

The budding scientists of Bebington High Sports College were actively involved by helping build a large model of a molecule of carbon called the Buckminster Fullerene and also by making a model of the Maglev train, which has no fuel or pollution, it uses wind turbine for propulsion into space therefore will hopefully be the ‘transport of the future’.

The session really brought to life the excitement of science and was put to the students in a way that they could relate to and the impact of this was amazing!

I thought it was going to be boring but actually it was really good!” said one of the students on the way out. University life now seems a lot more interesting to these excited students than it did before!