Isaac (Fifth Form) attended the presentation ceremony for the British Physics Olympiad at the Royal Society last week.

He was among the seven chosen from a field of over 6000 participants to be invited to attend the presentations for the GCSE Physics Intermediate Challenge in 2021/22, where they were recognised for their outstanding achievement. The organisers said that the seven students invited showed the greatest skill at problem-solving in the challenge.

Isaac received a certificate and a book, authored by the keynote speaker Professor Stephen Blundell from the University of Oxford, titled “Superconductivity –  a very short introduction”.

 

12 MCS pupils entered the GCSE Physics Challenge competition, with all 12 attaining Bronze or better. This is an especially impressive feat, since half of them were sitting the paper a year early in the Upper Fourth. Gold awards also went to Robert, Larry, Clement, Mantas and Sasha.

In other physics news, there was another Physics Challenge paper, in which Lower Sixth pupils tested their problem-solving skills and physical intuition against the best young scientists in the country. Jack, Thomas, Charlie, Rosie, Sashank, Hans, and John won gold awards, with all entrants excelling themselves, earning a further 6 Silver and 10 Bronze awards between them.