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Introducing our new Science Club Leaders

We are excited to introduce our new Science Club Leaders for 2024. The new team started collaborating in the holidays, working hard to prepare exciting activities and opportunities for our avid young scientists. They’ve led the first few meetings with poise, eloquence and heart. Here is a sneak peek into their ideas and aspirations.

Janet Zheng

I’m super excited for Science Club this year! As a passionate STEM student, I’m very grateful for the opportunity to help run the sessions. Science Club is an incredible way to get a dip into science – for fun and for knowledge – while getting to meet other people and share ideas in the spirit of scientific research. I’m most looking forward to getting to meet new students, not breaking glassware (hopefully) and sharing my love of Hank Green (who you may know from CrashCourse on YouTube).

Jasmine So

As a science student, I appreciate how SCEGGS’s Science Club, through our weekly science-related experiments, such as the science behind ice cream to the science behind COVID RAT tests, is able to highlight the enjoyable side of science outside of the classroom. Weekly science experiments increase SCEGGS students’ scientific curiosity, and allow students to understand the scientific aspect behind simple everyday things that are rarely questioned, and even give students from different year groups a chance to get to know one another. Through my role as Science Club Leader, I wish to further inspire students’ scientific curiosity and give them a wide range of opportunities.

Teagan Barrack

Science has always been one of my passions. I have enjoyed learning about biology, physics and chemistry in the classroom and have continued my studies through choosing to study chemistry for my HSC. Last year I took part in the Biotech Futures Competition with Rebecca, Janet, and Sophia where we got a taste of some of the inspiring paths that science can lead us. As a Science Club Leader, I hope to inspire many more students to get as excited about science as I am. I hope to use our Science Club lunchtimes to show students the breadth of science and the fun and inspiring applications of it. I look forward to a great year!

Sophia Chu

When I got the opportunity to be a Science Club Leader I thought what an amazing way to get more experience in a leadership position combined with my passion for science which I can share and impart on other students! Science was my favourite subject in the junior years and this year I picked up biology and chemistry which have become one of the most interesting and exciting parts of my school day! I am incredibly excited to plan, present and participate in many fun and insightful experiments over the next year with my friends leading with me and avid scientists across the school!

Rebecca Colwell

I’m super excited to be a Science Club Leader this year! I’ve always found science and STEM really interesting – currently I take chemistry and I want to continue studying science at uni. So, as a Science Club Leader I’m hoping to promote the fun side of science and encourage younger students especially to get involved and consider pursuing science in the future. I’m looking forward to running Science Club with my friends and we have lots of exciting things in store this year such as a wide range of experiments, competitions, and speakers!

Mia Sharma
Science Teacher