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O xford Chemists Inspire a New Generation of Young Scientists

Celebrating our Student Ambassadors

The Department offers a wide range of outreach activities efforts to raise the aspirations of school students and inspire
and our programme of events continues to grow to engage the next generation of young scientists. Congratulations to
with students and their key influencers throughout the Robert Rossiter, our Undergraduate Student Ambassador
student lifecycle from Primary Science Days to courses that of the Year. Robert trained as an ambassador whilst a third
bridge the gap between school and university with a packed year undergraduate and has delivered workshops to over
programme of events, practical activities and residential 10 schools and assisted in further developing the RSC
course. Spectroscopy workshop, ‘Rob did a great job of introducing
the problem solving activity and gave an excellent review of the
We are delighted to be one of the host institutions for the
Royal Society of Chemistry’s Spectroscopy in a Suitcase techniques. He was saying that he is thinking about teaching
Project which involves us taking out hands-on workshops as a career - he certainly showed the skills needed and tell him
to schools. To support our efforts we train a number of to apply to here if a job comes up.’ - Chemistry Teacher, New
our undergraduate and postgraduate students as Oxford College, Swindon. Rob graduates this year and will begin
Chemistry Ambassadors to deliver a range of our activities teacher training – we wish him well.
and have introduced bespoke training for several of our One of the areas we are aiming to develop further in
graduate training programmes. This has resulted in further outreach is our provision for Teachers and further support
development of our outreach activities to include balloon of our excellent ambassador programme. If you would like
modelling VSEPR and forensics activities to take out to further information on any of our schools outreach efforts
schools as well as interactive tours of our research labs. The please contact our Schools Liasion & Access Officer, Jayne
latter has been delivered as part of Teacher CPD sessions Shaw
with the aim of enriching the science curriculum in schools
allowing teachers the opportunity to enthuse the next jayne.shaw@chem.ox.ac.uk
generation about current research in the department. http://outreach.chem.ox.ac.uk/

This year we held our Inaugural Student Ambassador https://twitter.com/ChemOutreachOxf
Celebration, supported by Shimadzu, to recognise the https://www.facebook.com/
contribution our excellent ambassadors make towards our OutreachChemistryDepartment

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