On the final day, we visited to the University of York Department of Chemistry. The participants visited the teaching lab, which are large modern facilities used by current undergraduate students. This was a great chance for the participants to see what it would be like to study chemistry at a higher level, and picture themselves as potential scientists!
We received great feedback from the participants, with 85% reporting felt confident or very confident in science following the residential. This quote from a participant sums up the impact that programmes like this can have:
“I didn’t think science was for me before, especially chemistry. But actually doing the experiments and seeing how it links to real jobs made me think I could do this one day. It’s the first time I’ve thought about a career like that.”
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