Science Week

Learn something amazing in Science Week

Monday 9 March

Economics Society: Carbon trading, Mr Richard Edwards. 13.30, Undercroft. All welcome.
Modern Languages Society: Esperanto: can a scientist create a language?, Jogendra Hardy and Alesha White. 13.05, Room 12. All welcome.
Forensics, Hugh Lindsey. 1.05pm, B1. All welcome.
Gene Genie: using PCR to unravel your DNA, Dr Whiteford, University of Copenhagen. 16.05, B3, Y11-13. Continues on Tuesday with Dr Weston.
Make your own DNA Necklace in Y11 biology lessons.
Science Fiction Short Story Competition - submission deadline. See Mrs Heindl.

Tuesday 10 March

Highgate School Film Society: Science and Cinema: Utopia or Dystopia, Visions of the Future, Mr Bovey, 13.10, AV room in the Mills Centre. Y7/Y8

Three wise scientists and Darwin poetry, Agnes Arnold-Forster, Julius Grower and David Joseph explain why they are passionate about Science, followed by reading of poetry by Y7 finalists. Period 1, Big School, Y7.
Illustrated talk on the Caspian Sea monster, Max Jamilly, Period 1, Room 5. All Russian speakers welcome.
Chemical Detectives, Y9 lessons.

Cosmic rays and special relativity, David Joseph, Period 4, Mills Centre

English seminar: Let us Praise the Gasworks - Science in the Poetry of WH Auden, Mr Catherwood, 13.15, E43. All welcome.
Reptile Society: Cryptozoology, Mr Atkins, 13.05, B1. Y7-Y11.
The most humane way to murder, Dilek Taze, 13.05, B3. All welcome.
The Enlightenment, Bethea Hanson Jones, 13.05, Room 11. All welcome.

Wednesday 11 March

Heavens Above! The Life and Work of Galileo Galilei, Mr Smith. All Y9 in Period 5 and Y10 in Period 6 in BS.
Why does toast fall butter side down? Science author Mr Richard Robinson, Periods 3-4, Big School. Y7/Y8.
Brilliant Bleach: Analysis of which bleach is brilliant. Y13 Chemistry lessons
Junior Biology Society: Bird Migration, Mr Bennett, 13.05, B1. All welcome.
The Game of Life, Mr Abramson, 13.30, MC. Y7-Y11.
Junior Science Club: Crash, Bang, Wallop, Dr Weston and Miss Ward, 16.05, B3, Y7/Y8.

Thursday 12 March

General Studies lecture: The evolution of the nervous system, Dr Simon Butt, Imperial College, London. Y12.
Bilan Carbone: Y12 pupils present the carbon footprint of Highgate School, in French to Y11 pupils in lessons.
English Seminar: Fin de Siecle: Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde and the threat of Science, Dr Kramer. 13.15, E42. All welcome.
Globetrotters: Savage Earth: Volcanoes and Disaster Science, Miss Chapman, 13.05, Gg1, Y7-Y9.

Philosophy Society: The Challenge of Darwinism to Philosophical Thought, Ms Gosney, 13.10pm, Room 16. All welcome.
Making liquid nitrogen ice cream and other demonstrations, Mr Bains, 13.05, C1.
A matter of life and death, Mr Pearce, 13.10, M3. Y12/Y13
Neurolinguistics: the study of the art of communication, Lillie Rosenblatt, 13.05, B1. All welcome.
Biology Society: Pentadactyl Talks – members of the sixth form will be giving five short talks inspired by evolution. 16.05, B1. All welcome.

Friday 13 March

Walking with Robots: a practical session, led by Bernie Holloway from the Science and Technology Regional Organisation and the DT department, Mr Thomson. Periods 3 & 4, Big School. Y9.
Green Chemistry, Dr Edwards from Imperial College, London. Periods 1 & 2, Mills Centre. Y12 chemists.
English seminar: The Romantic Imagination v Science, Mrs Hyam, 13.15, E43. All welcome.
Bees, Raoul- Edward Rechnitz, 13.05, B3. All welcome.
Vampryoteuthis Infernalis: the vampire squid from hell, Ale Sanchez, 13.05, B1. All welcome.
Robotics, Constance Mantle, 13.05, P3. All welcome.
Genetic Engineering: making bacteria glow in the dark, Dr Welch, 16.05, B2, Y12/Y13

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