Brentwood School’s robot may have been expelled from the BBC 2 Robot Wars bulletproof arena on Sunday night, but the young team did enough to secure a place in the Ten Robot Rumble.
Leighton Park’s credentials as a centre of excellence for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics gained a further boost with a Matthew Meade, a Lower Sixth student, winning a prestigious Arkwright Engineering Scholarship.
Under the slogan of ‘Dream big, start small, act now’, 60 enthusiastic Sixth Formers and a number of engaging industry experts were ‘full STEAM ahead’ as they generated an audible buzz at the Cisco Offices on Green Park on November 9-10.
A team of 17-year old boys at the City of London School have won a gold medal and four special prizes at the iGEM finals in the USA, working on a novel technique to diagnose cancer easily, cheaply and at a curable stage.
An all-girl robotics team from Brentwood School in Essex is the only all-female and UK school team to be invited to compete in a brand new Chinese robot fighting television show “King of Bots”, which will be hosted by international martial arts celebrity, Jet Li.
Hewlett Packard (HP), Intel and IT solutions specialists XMA have awarded Leighton Park School the exciting Ripple Effect Prize. The prize recognises schools at the forefront of using technology to support student learning.