Last year Abingdon entered two teams into the Cambridge University Biology Challenge. This is an event over four rounds where students are invited to answer thought-provoking questions that challenge them to use their biological knowledge in novel ways. The teams answered questions such as “Do behaviors fossilize? Do animals dream? What are hallucinations? and “How might Santa Clause manage to survive eating all those mince pies?”. Both teams did incredibly well, coming 9th and 10th out of 914 teams nationally, with just half a point between them.
