A-LEVEL students at Richard Taunton Sixth Form College put their science skills to the test when they were invited to take part in a university’s Twilight Chemistry session.

Nine students were given a glimpse of life as an undergraduate at Southampton University when they took part in a session led by Professor David Read.

Students from the university were on hand to help them with the experiments, including extracting the natural chemical trimyristin from nutmeg, and answer questions about life on campus.

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Richard Taunton chemistry teacher Rachel Powell said the evening was aimed at pupils who may want to go on to university to study chemistry. 

“They were doing the sort of practical experiments they would be doing at university and it ties in very usefully with the second year of the A Level course where they are doing some work on their own," she added.

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“I think they got a lot out of it and they certainly did us proud."

 

 

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