Headstart Summer School
Annual event - taking place on 24th - 28th June 2012
Last year the School of Chemistry were proud to host the only Chemistry specific Headstart Summer School in the UK!
A group of 16 year 12 students from across the country joined us for 4 days to experience practical activities from the three main subject areas of chemistry plus medicinal chemistry, one of our areas of strength at Newcastle. The students made two transition metal complexes (inorganic), an ester (organic), an anti-cancer drug precursor molecule (medicinal) and analysed the percentage of copper in some alloys using colorimetry (physical).
The students also visited the MSD manufacturing plant in Cramlington to see how chemistry is applied in the pharmaceutical industry and had a "What's it like to study Chemistry at Newcastle" session with our undergraduate admissions tutor and several current undergraduates representing each of our main course programmes, e.g. Chemistry and Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry or Industrial Placement or Study Abroad. This included a talk, a tour of the School of Chemistry and an informal question and answer session with the current students.
We are also delighted to confirm that we will again be offering a Chemistry specific strand to this already popular Summer School scheme for 2012 - please check out the Focus Chemistry Headstart course page here for further details!
For more general information about Headstart Summer Schools and to book your place on our Focus Chemistry course, please check out the EDT website here.
Dr Peter Hoare
Chemistry Outreach Officer
E-mail:peter.hoare@newcastle.ac.uk
Tel: 0191 222 8542