Congratulations to Year 2 student Lizzy, who recently received a Highly Recommended Award at the Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) National Awards for her project on DNA Origami.
Lizzy, who studies A-levels in Chemistry, Biology and Environmental Science, attended the awards ceremony with five other researchers from college, and was presented her award by Professor Tom Welton OBE, Imperial College London.
IRIS projects enable students to take part in real scientific research, learn new skills such as programming in Python, reading academic papers and team working. 16 Cirencester College students took part IRIS projects at the end of their first year of College, working on DNA origami modelling, hunting for Higgs Boson, interpreting emission spectra from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and designing fuel storage for hydrogen powered planes.
Part of the project included creating an academic poster, which the students presented at a conference in Exeter.
Lizzy said, “I really enjoyed the entire project, and it was inspiring to meet people who do this for their career.”
For more information on this story please contact chloe.suter@cirencester.ac.uk
