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Salters Science Festival Challenge Day
Elliot Rose, Kiran Mistry, Eva Davies and Hannah Chatfield were nominated by their Science teacher,Miss Calder, to take part in a Salters Chemistry Challenge on the 15th of March – held at the University of East Anglia.
Their initial challenge involved the students getting up for a 6.30am start – to set off. We arrived in Norwich at around 8.30am – after a few wrong turnings; but arrived slightly early!
In the morning the students were asked to identify some anions using wet chemistry techniques and Chromatography. Quite a task considering that identifying anions is part of the GCSE Chemistry course and usually studied at year 11.
After lunch the students were given another task where they had to add citric acid to sodium hydrogen carbonate –an endothermic reaction - the challenge involved finding the right method to reduce the temperature to 10.5 degrees centigrade within 60 seconds. The second attempt worked a charm.
The day came to a close with the prize giving ceremony, all the schools that had participated were given some goodies from the institute as well as certificates. When the prize giving for the challenges came about we were all waiting with a fervent anticipation for Sawtry Community College’s name to be read out. Unfortunately we didn’t win the challenges but we all felt as though we had gained a valuable experience.
The journey back was full of conversation about the Challenge, University life and various aspects of Science. All in all, a very fun (and Science) filled day! We also made the local newpaper, click on the link below to see the article.