On Thursday 28th January, Professor Chris Hardacre, Head of Chemistry at Queens’ University attended the college to speak to Year 13 and 14 students.   Professor Hardacre demonstrated some experiments involving catalysts and told the students about the career possibilities that studying Chemistry and Chemical Engineering could lead to.

One of the experiments that he showed us was the homogeneous catalysis reaction of the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, which was impressive.

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Miss Wightman, Miss Kelly and Miss Wells attended a Post Primary Workshop in Cross Curricular Skills focussing on Numeracy in Science on Saturday (yes Saturday!!) 7th November provided by the Association for Science Education.