SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES: Budding Einsteins join exciting new science club

BUDDING Einsteins are learning a variety of exciting experiments at a Yeovil academy's new science club.

An incredible number of 13 Year 7 girls and five boys have already signed up to the group at Buckler’s Mead Academy.

Students are learning how to design and build spaghetti bridges, fire water rockets, deploy parachutes and about explosive chemistry including 'what goes bang'.

They are also learning forensic science such as fingerprinting, evidence collection, DNA and blood splatter.

And the course will include elements about flight, building simple paper gliders for distance, speed, long flight, and balsa planes.

Grant funding has been given from the Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry to help with equipment.

Science club leader Adie Barker said: “We have specifically targeted girls because they are less likely to take up science but there has been huge enthusiasm for this course.

“We are delighted to get such prestigious funding to help us make it outstanding.”

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