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Yr 10 Work Experience Week, 2016

June 17, 2016 By Karen Masters

ICG has been delighted this week to welcome five young people from local schools (Brune Park, Gosport; Portsmough High School, and Kings School, Winchester) for a period of work experience.

The students participated in a variety of events, and were each matched with a supervisor to work on a research project. The week ended today with a research symposium for the students to present their projects.

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The students at the start of the week after they successfully completed a treasure hunt around the department.

Our visit to the virtual reality lab in CCi was a big hi-light for everyone. Below the students play with haptics and immersive VR. We also viewed a special 3D movie showing the structure of galaxies and large scale structure of the Universe.

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Pictures from the research symposium.

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Ben presents his work with Matt Withers on what creates the large scale structure of the Universe.

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Ashlyn presents her work with Ben Bose investigation modifications to gravity theories.

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Ciera present her work with Karen Masters, Frederika Phipps and Lucy Newman investigating radio observations of galaxies.

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Hazel presents work with David Bacon on measuring the density of the Universe using images from the Dark Energy Survey.

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Leo presents his work with Taniya Parikh and Dan Goddard investigating galaxies with the MaNGA survey.

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All students and (most) supervisors together at the end of the week.

All students reported that this week has encouraged them to be more likely to continue Physics to A-level, to pursue a physics related career and talk with their friends about how interesting physics is, which we think is a great result. All supervisors were really impressed at the level of the projects and the presentations.

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