Science News

Science Leaders Welcome

Science Club has just become all the more fun, exciting and explosive with the introduction of its new leaders: Mietta Paipetis, Sally Oppenheim, Tilda Meggitt, Josephine Robson and Milly O’Connell. All five of us share a keen interest in STEM subjects, and throughout the course of our year as Science leaders we want to challenge, excite and encourage students to engage with science outside the classroom setting in an innovative and entertaining fashion.

This year, we have decided to extend the participation of Science Club to Year 6 students, as one of our integral focuses as Science Leaders is to increase STEM engagement within SCEGGS, and we can’t think of a better way to achieve this than by helping to foster a healthy curiosity in STEM during the younger years of schooling. We are so excited to welcome the Year 6 students to this senior school activity. We meet every Thursday lunchtime at 1.10pm in JF9, where we explore various scientific concepts in original and funky ways.

Our most recent scientific endeavour involved making rockets fly. We built rockets out of canisters, made a paste of sodium bicarbonate to put in the lid, filled the canister up with vinegar, and flipped over the rocket. This induced a reaction that produced carbon dioxide (CO2 in science-y terms) which caused pressure to build up in the rocket – ultimately making it shoot up into the sky! The attempts were varied in success, but the learning and fun we experienced was so beneficial (especially to our future budding #STEMINISTS).

We Science leaders implore all students to get up and atom and do the science they were boron to do at Science Club.

Mietta, Sally, Tilda, Josephine and Milly
Year 12 Science Leaders