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Celebration events

Those students who undertake a Nuffield Science Bursary are also invited to attend a Nuffield Celebration Event organised by their Regional Coordinator. This offers students involved in the scheme an opportunity to display what they have achieved during their bursary placement, and enables them to meet and discuss it with other bursary students, supervisors and guests from the science, technology and engineering sector.

In 2007 there were a number of celebration events around the UK. See below for some details and photographs from some of them

Celebration event for Merseyside, Cheshire & Warrington
This celebration took place on the 2nd October 2007 in the Pacific Road Arts Centre in Birkenhead, Wirral. Nearly 100 students were at the celebration event. The photograph below shows how large and busy the event was!

Celebration event for the Hertfordshire region
This took place on Thursday 22nd November 2007 at GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage. All students at the celebration event had a poster display and a selection of students were asked to give a 5 minute presentation about their projects. Project provider Stephen Cox from ITT Jabsco spoke at the celebration event about his experience of hosting bursary students.

Aarthy Uthayakumar from Haberdasher Aske's School for Girls in Elstree at the Hertfordshire celebration event
















Celebration event for Devon and Cornwall
This event took place at Plymouth University on Wednesday 10th October. All students that attended had project display boards, and the chance to discuss their bursary placement with those that attended the celebration event. Heather Campbell who is the Regional Director for STEMNET South West spoke at the celebration event about the opportunities that a Nuffield Science Bursary placement presents to students.

Thomas Yalland and Chris Paisey from St Cuthbert Mayne School at the celebration event for Devon and Cornwall

Celebration event for the Cambridge region
This took place at The Babraham Institute on Thursday 18th October. Professor Sir Michael Berridge FRS who is the Emeritus Fellow at The Babraham Institute gave a key note address at the event.

Professor Sir Michael Berridge at the Cambridge celebration event with students who completed their bursary placement in Summer 2007 at the Babraham Institute. Also in the photograph are Dr Claire Cockcroft and Dr Jonathan Clark from the Babraham Institute




















Celebration event for Scotland
The Scottish celebration event took place on Monday 3rd September at the Glasgow Science Centre. John Brown, who is Regius Professor of Astronomy and leader of the Astropysics Research Group in the Department of Physics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland spoke at the event. A selected number of students gave a presentation about their bursary placement and all students at the event had a project display.

Karen Lai from Hutchesons' Grammar School at the Scottish celebration event

Celebration event for Wales
This year the Welsh region had two celebration events! The first was held at Techniquest on the 27th September, and the second was at Technium OpTIC in North Wales, who hosted 9 bursary students during Summer 2007.

Bursary students from South Wales who took part in a bursary placement in Summer 2007

Lucy Hobson at the celebration event for students who took a bursary placement at the Photonics Academy at OpTIC in Summer 2007 chatting to the Mayor of St Asaph

Last Updated Thu, 10 January 2008