Schools in Depth - High-Sci: Inspiring the scientists of tomorrow by taking leading scientists into schools

摘要

The new High-Sci project is a series of evening lectures in secondary schools, run as satellites to the Societys programme of Focused Meetings. The aim of the new scheme is to engage children with science, through meeting a real-life working scientist. The lectures will provide students first with the scientific knowledge on the chosen topic and information on what research is currently being done in the area, and, more importantly, the aims and achievements of this research and how it effects life today. In doing this, the hope is that the students will feel excited about studying the biological sciences and understand the important partnership between research and future developments. This in turn may help recruit and inspire some of scientists of tomorrow.