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April 2017
CERN@School
Abingdon Science Partnership,
ASP, has become an official
partner with the Institute for
Research in Schools, giving
access to particle detectors and
data sets from CERN and other
large research organisations.
That’s Oxfordshire TV reporter
Katie Chambers visited the ASP
Lab to meet pupils involved
in the CERN@School project,
which is one of the activities on
offer at the new Science Factor
research club.
Students from Abingdon, St
Helen’s and Fitzharrys School
have been invited to work
alongside Particle Physicists
from CERN in Geneva and
the Universities of Oxford
and Birmingham to develop
a Minecraft replica of CERN’s
ATLAS detector, where the
famous Higgs boson was
discovered.
Abingdon
News
Young Enterprise teams pick up prizes
The four YE teams have enjoyed successful trade fairs in Cowley, Banbury and Abingdon
and, after presenting at the area final, Access and arôme have gone through to the county
final in May.
The School welcomed back 25 OAs who
have gone on to study classical subjects at
university. The OAs and former members
of the Classics department joined 36
current Abingdonians for the annual
Classics Dinner.
Third year boarders, supervised by
Peter Wang, made shortbread hearts for
Community Service. They were given as
Valentine’s gifts to the ladies at the Older
and Bolder exercise club.
Shortbread
Valentines