Scientific Thinkers Excel in National Challenge

Last month several Year 10 students from TMA joined 15,663 other Year 10 students in completing the National Scientific Challenge. 

The online competition, created by academics at Warwick, Southampton, Bristol, Newcastle, Manchester and Oxford Universities, asks students to look at data, graphs and text and make deductions, spot trends, suggest hypotheses and identify anomalous results. Students are given one week to complete the challenge during one science lesson and given 50 minutes to complete. 

The national mean average for this cohort was 57% but students who achieved in the top 40% achieved a Bronze certificate, in the top 25% achieved a Siver certificate, and in the top 10% a Gold certificate.

The Science department are understandably very proud of all our students who took part but particularly our Bronze achievers: Adrienne G, Austin L, Hannah T, Irem V, Jack A, Mollie H and Ryan S; our Silver achievers: Amana G, Charlotte C, Chet S, Erin S, Evan L, Grace D, Jack C, Jayden H, Kanishka D and Sienna R; and our three Gold achievers: Fred B, Millie J and Nathan E.

Mrs Ainsworth, Head of Science said: "It was great to see so many of our students willing to take part in the Challenge, and those students who were placed in the top tiers did amazingly well.  In the modern world with so much scientific innovation and discovery taking place, the ability to think scientifically is crucial"

Pictured are some of our participants with their certificates.