The Department of Chemistry supports and recommends a number of competitions, festivals and awards designed to challenge students and encourage them to be curious about chemistry.
Star Awards are a great introduction to problem-solving in STEM. They offer children the opportunity to learn through hands-on challenges that focus on their everyday lives.
SuperStar Awards are a great introduction to problem-solving in STEM. They offer children the opportunity to learn through hands-on challenges by exploring the world around them.
Bronze Awards introduce students to project work empowering them to work like real scientists, technologists, engineers or mathematicians. Students choose their own topic and methodologies, giving them complete freedom over their work.
Silver Awards are designed to stretch students and enrich their STEM studies. Students develop their own project idea and gain in-depth experience of the scientific method or engineering design process.
A challenging annual competition for students in Year 13 (or equiv.). Past papers, mark schemes and commentaries available, along with worked examples and interactive tutorials provided by the Wolfson Trust.
The Schools' Analyst competition enables Year 12 (or equivalent) students to demonstrate and expand on their existing chemistry knowledge, skills and aptitude for analytical science through practical analytical experiments based on relevant societal or industrial problems.
A student-led one-day competition event for teams of Y12/13s looking to study chemistry or related subjects at university. Questions are written by current university students and tackle problems across the chemical sciences, aiming to stretch the students beyond the A-level curriculum. The event takes place in three venues: Oxford, Cambridge and Pardubice (Czechia).
