Arundel & South Downs MP, Andrew Griffith visited St Philips Howard Catholic School in Barnham on Friday (20th May) to congratulate them on their entry into a STEM competition launched by Horsham-based company Ceres.
The Ceres Reimagine competition invited secondary schools in the South East to develop a 3-minute animation video explaining an exciting scientific concept that is relevant to the net-zero mission. Specially, the competition is looking at challenges which can be solved through the use of hydrogen. The aim is to inspire the next generation of innovators and creatives to think about the global climate challenge and to bring their own creativity to tackling the mission for net zero.
Andrew met with Jules Hlynianski, Science teacher and Head of Year 12, and lower-sixth form students Oscar, India, Kate, and Ethan to hear how they developed their video-short for the competition. Titled ‘The Fourth Isotope’ – the science team demonstrated their creativity and scientific knowledge to deliver a highly visual explanation of how hydrogen can be broken into different elements.
The school’s video entry has now been submitted and will be judged by a high-calibre and all-female panel this week (details below). The five judges have exceptional experience spanning engineering, science, media and public life. Following a closed roundtable judging session, shortlisted schools will be taken forward to the final event and Awards Ceremony due to take place at the Science Museum in London on Thursday 30th June.
Caroline Hargrove CBE (for services to Engineering) PhD, Chief Technology Officer at Ceres, and one of the judging panel, said:
“Ceres is a great example of a technology that has spun out of our world-leading research base in the UK that can really make a difference on our path to Net Zero, but we know that is not enough. Today’s school-aged pupils are the generation with the greatest potential to have an impact and if we inspire just a few to become the engineers and the climate scientists and the storytellers of the future, we will have succeeded with this competition.”
Jules Hlynianski, Head ofo Year 12 and teacher of Science, said:
"I was proud to introduce to Andrew the students who had worked incredibly hard on their 3 minute video for the Ceres Reimagine competition. The students explained the roles they had taken individually when the project was at the research stage and then how they had worked together, with guidance from STEM Ambassadors from Ceres to produce their final piece. Everyone involved thoroughly enjoyed the challenge Ceres set them."
Andrew Griffith said:
“It was a delight to meet such enthusiastic science students and to talk to them about their brilliant video for the Reimagine competition. They have fully embraced the mission – doing this in addition to their A level studies. It’s a great entry and I wish them luck with the competition!”
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Notes
- Photograph - from left: Neil Nilsumran, Ethan Guppy, Kate Rowbotham, Andrew Griffith MP, India Cleall, Oscar Johansen-Allison, Jules Hlynianski.
- STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths – to read more please see https://www.stem.org.uk/.
- For more information about Ceres and the Reimagine Clean Energy Competition 2022 please see https://www.ceres.tech/news/high-calibre-judging-panel-announced-for-ceres-challenge-to-pupils-to-reimagine-a-clean-energy-future/
- Judging panel;
- Gabrielle Walker PhD, climate change scientist, TED speaker and founder of Rethinking Removals
- Professor Dame Julia King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, British engineer, Chair of STEM Learning UK and crossbench member of the House of Lords
- Cecilia Weckstrom, Senior Global Director and Head of Diversity & Inclusion at LEGO Group
- Eman Martin-Vignerte, Director at Robert Bosch GmbH and Chair of CBI South East
- Caroline Hargrove PhD, Chief Technology Officer at Ceres and recipient of an OBE for services to Engineering
