A group of Year 12 students has once again been taking part in the HE+ program run by Cambridge University. The HE+ program provides access to supra-curricular activities ranging from online academic lectures to in-person student seminars which give participants an opportunity to explore their chosen subject or complementary subjects at a greater academic depth. Students develop critical thinking and discussion skills and valuable insight into topics that support or form part of their curriculum.
Students were also invited to research and submit an academic poster for the national HE+ competition. Academic posters are an important aspect of university teaching because they demonstrate research skills, communication skills, and a passion for a particular subject. This year the over-arching theme was Uncertainty.
5 of our current HE+ students are entering the poster competition this year and they were invited to present their posters to the Senior Leadership Team. Over lunch, they discussed their ideas and talked about the way in which they had undertaken their research. They will be submitting their posters to Cambridge University over the summer.
Louise Pearce: A Brown and White Problem: The future of monitoring penguin populations.
Olivia Busby: Processed Food: How is the food we are consuming now creating health implications for the future?
Georgina Cook: The Future of ammonia Production for Fertiliser Use: Will the process ever be environmentally friendly?
Oliver Scanlan: Life on Mars: How does the Martian environment pose a threat to permanent settlement?
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