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THEY ARE ALL ON-LINE EVENTS. e-mail: briggswmctc@btinternet.com |
| Date | Title | |
| Tuesday 19 January 2021 | THE WONDERS OF ELEMENT 6: CARBON (Sixth Form) | Details |
| Tuesday 2 February 2021 | NUCLEAR ENERGY: MODELLING THE CHEMISTRY!
(Sixth Form) | Details |
| Thursday 4 February 2021 | DISCOVERING THE WORLD OF CHEMISTRY
(KS3 / KS4) | Details |
| Tuesday 2 March 2021 Cancelled |
WMCTC CHEMISTRY QUIZ (Year 10 and Year 11) | Details |
| Tuesday 9 March 2021 | ADVANCED LEVEL REVISION 1: MATHEMATICS IN SIXTH FORM FORM CHEMISTRY (Sixth form) | Details |
| Tuesday 23 March 2021 | ADVANCED LEVEL REVISION 2: TRANSITION METAL CHEMISTRY AND AQUEOUS IONS (Sixth Form) | Details |
| Wednesday 24 March 2021 | COLOURFUL CHEMISTRY ( Year 7, Year 8 & Year 9 students) | Details |
| Summer Term 2021 | Please watch this space | |
| September 2021 to July 2022 | PROGRAMME FOR SEPTEMBER
2021 TO JULY 2022
A Programme Summary will be posted by 10 July 2021 |
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This Presentation is being given on-line "THE WONDERS OF ELEMENT 6: CARBON"  Our speaker, Julie MacPherson works on the development of new electrochemical-based sensors (based on diamond, nanotubes, graphene and nanoparticles) for a variety of different applications in healthcare, pharmaceutical analysis and environmental science (often in collaboration with industry). Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick. Sixth Form Lecture. To Register, click HERE Registration opens on 4 January 2021 |
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This Presentation is being given on-line "NUCLEAR ENERGY: MODELLING THE CHEMISTRY!"  This lecture will also explore the important role that chemistry has to play throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, from purifying UO2 and fabricating fuel pellets to reprocessing, recycling spent fuel and the safe immobilisation of High Level Waste. The second part will show how computational chemistry is employed to simulate the nuclear fuel crystal lattice and how the fuel performance and aging effects may be predicted. So for those that thought that Nuclear Energy was only in the realm of Physics and Engineering - Dr Read is here to dispel those and other myths! Dr Mark Read, National Nuclear Laboratory and University of Birmingham. Sixth Form Lecture. To Register, click HERE Registration opens on 20 January 2021 |
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(Jointly organised with Aston University, the Association for Science Education and the Royal Society of Chemistry) This Presentation is being given on-line "DISCOVERING THE WORLD OF CHEMISTRY"  The presenter is a senior lecturer in chemistry at Keele University. Katherine obtained her MChem and PhD from the University of St Andrews (Scotland) before escaping to Vancouver (Canada) to do research. She then traded Vancouver for Stoke-on-Trent and has remained there ever since, obtaining an MA from Keele University in 2017. Katherine teaches across a wide range of topics including sustainable and industrial chemistry and runs a range of outreach activities including Top of the Bench and Salters Festival of Chemistry. When she's not teaching, her research interests are in chemistry education, particularly what people think about chemistry and trying to find out what bits confuse students the most. Dr Katherine J.Haxton, Keele University. KS3 / KS4 Students Lecture Demonstration. For anyone to book onto the event, they need to complete the registration form at the bottom of the Aston University Webpage: https://www.aston.ac.uk/sro/pre16 They will then receive automated emails containing details of the event. Further information can be obtained from Charlotte Coleman (Outreach Officer): c.coleman1@aston.ac.uk or sro@aston.ac.uk |
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This Presentation is being given on-line "A-LEVEL REVISION: MATHEMATICS IN SIXTH FORM CHEMISTRY: BUILDING CONFIDENCE"  This presentation will focus on revising some of the key mathematical skills required for A-Level Chemistry. This will include skills and topics such as calculating and converting units, significant figures, decimal places, standard form, the Avogadro number, percentage yields, calculations using algebra, logarithmic functions, using and constructing graphs to determine chemical quantities, determining uncertainties and the Arrhenius expression. A range of example questions will be shown, demonstrating the use of some of the key skills outlined above. The presentation will also include a brief illustration of how mathematical concepts such as trigonometry and calculus are key extensions to undergraduate chemistry. Maryjane is a Lecturer in Physical and Structural Chemistry and has research interests in organic solid state chemistry, molecular crystallography, powder diffraction and evolutionary algorithms. She has published over 40 research papers in scientific journals and books, and solved over 50 molecular crystal structures from powder diffraction data following the development of new techniques for determination. She has given presentations around the world on both structure solution from powder diffraction data and the application of evolutionary algorithms to crystallography. Dr Maryjane Tremayne, University of Birmingham. Sixth Form Revision Lecture To Register, click HERE Registration opens on 2 February 2021 |
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This Presentation is being given on-line "ADVANCED LEVEL REVISION: TRANSITION METAL CHEMISTRY AND AQUEOUS IONS"  It will be an interactive presentation, with the audience using any device with an internet connection and a browser (e.g. PC, laptop, tablet, iPad, iPhone or Android) to answer questions about transition metals throughout the lecture using the OMBEA platform. Full details of how to access OMBEA will be provided in advance of the lecture. The questions are chosen to illustrate key points or student misconceptions, based on the speaker's extensive experience of teaching and examining this topic over three decades There will also be a few chemical demonstrations to illustrate key points about Transition Metal chemistry and a PDF of revision notes covering the whole topic will be provided in advance of the session. Details of a useful online learning resource, developed by the speaker in collaboration with a worldwide research database, and peer-produced by end of Year 12 chemistry students for a summer Nuffield Research Placement Project, will also be provided. The speaker, Dr Peter Hoare, is currently a STEM Outreach Officer in the SagE Faculty at Newcastle University, but prior to his appointment in 2009, was a chemistry teacher for 20 years in a high achieving Northumberland High School. He is also an A-level Chemistry marker, since 1995, for one of the major UK examining boards, for whom he currently marks an Advanced Level Paper. Dr Peter Hoare, Newcastle University. Sixth Form Revision Lecture To Register, click HERE Registration opens on 9 March 2021 |
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(Jointly organised with the University of Wolverhampton, the Association for Science Education and the Royal Society of Chemistry) This Presentation is being given on-line "COLOURFUL CHEMISTRY" This online presentation will explore some processes in chemistry which either produce or use light energy under three themes of "reactions", "combustion" and "rates" with lots of colourful and sometimes dramatic demonstrations - with the occasional whoosh and even bang! The presenter, Dr Peter Hoare, is currently a STEM Outreach Officer in the SagE Faculty at Newcastle University, but prior to his appointment in 2009, was a chemistry teacher for 20 years. He has a wealth of experience in designing and delivering educational and entertaining demonstration lectures. Dr Peter Hoare, Newcastle University. Years 7, 8 & 9 Lecture Demonstration. Interested teachers who would like their students to watch this event should Register as soon as possible using the following booking link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wmctc-colourful-chemistry-tickets-135471700503 Further information can be obtained by contacting: Heather Angell: h.angell2@wlv.ac.uk or STEMOutreach@wlv.ac.uk |