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M3S CDT Sixth Form Event
M3S CDT 2011 cohort
June 2014
The Aim: to organise a one day event aimed at sixth-form students in the process of applying to university
The 6th Form Students: 40 students from the City and Islington Sixth Form College
The Results: Feedback from both the students and the school was overwhelmingly positive. Several students are now
considering studying chemistry at university or applying to UCL who were not considering it before
IR Spectroscopy Workshop: Students were provided with samples to run
and brought their own aspirin samples made
the week before at school
Computational chemistry session: By carrying out their own simulations of water
molecules, students were shown what the
growing field of computational chemistry is like
in practice
UCL Campus Tour: Students were taken on an exciting tour of the
vibrant UCL campus by UCL's professional tour guides, followed by a brief
tour of the Chemistry Department and lab facilities with M3S students.
UCL Collections and
Museums: The students were
sub-divided into groups for one of
three activities designed to introduce
them to UCL’s many collections and
to highlight different career
opportunities for graduate scientists.
A special thanks goes out to Ashley Shields and Jane Yates who organised the event, as well as Dr Zhimei Du and Prof Nora de
Leuuw, and all the industrial sponsors that support the doctoral training centre in Molecular Modelling and Materials Science.
Professor Alwyn Davies demonstrated items from
UCL’s Chemistry Collection, here showing the
students William Ramsay’s tubes of noble gases and
Nobel Prize
Nick Booth, director of the Rock Room and UCL Collections,
led a tour of UCL’s smaller collections, including the NASA
Imaging Facility and a Geosciences laboratory
Dr. Alice Stevenson discussed the
importance of analytical chemistry during a
tour of the Petrie Museum
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