Opening Pathways to Chemistry for Students
Queen Mary’s School of Physical and Chemical Sciences recently hosted Discover Chemistry: Pathways to A-Level and Beyond, an engaging outreach event designed to support and inspire elective home educated students and their families.
Dr Tippu Sheriff, Reader and Director of Chemical Sciences Programmes at Queen Mary University of London, led a highly successful event for elective home educated students in collaboration with Tower Hamlets Council and supported by Queen Mary's Centre for Public Engagement.
The event Discover Chemistry: Pathways to A-Level and Beyond welcomed over 50 students, along with their parents and carers, to the Mile End campus. The event kicked off with an exciting lecture demonstration featuring liquid nitrogen and dry ice. Students then headed into the lab to get hands-on with chromatography and spectroscopy, while their parents and carers learnt more about how QMUL can support home educated students in accessing higher education.
This event was funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry's Outreach and Chemists' Community Funds and is part of a series of events aimed at inspiring an interest in chemistry and raising the science capital of students who are educated outside of schools, such as at home or in faith-based settings.