Particle Physics Summer Boarding School

The Particle Physics Summer School is a  three day residential course for pupils aged 14-15 years (at the end of year 10 or equivalent).

The course is organised and run in partnership between St Paul’s School and Queen Mary University of London. It brings to life the complex subject of particle physics by showing the importance of the field across the sciences, engineering and computer science. We explore the subject through workshops and lectures which also demonstrate the importance of research to the way we live our lives as well as highlighting the broad range of exciting careers available in the field.

Aims

The course will comprise of talks, lectures, question and answer sessions and importantly hands-on experiments.

Small groups of year 10 students will be allocated an A-Level student mentor who will take them to each of the activities and encourage them to question and investigate as a group. Evenings will be informal but involve challenges, a quiz and an invited talk.

Pupil Involvement

Pupils from multiple partner schools attend.

Frequency

This is an annual and ongoing event.