Many congratulations to Alex Gentry (Year 10), who has achieved a Gold Award in the British Physics Olympiad Junior Physics Challenge. She was among 900 students, from a total entry of 6000 nationwide.

The competition consisted of two twenty-five minute online multiple-choice papers (30 questions per paper). The questions will be based on an assortment from Dynamics, Electricity, Optics, Heat, Units, small amounts of Astronomy, Waves, to give the main topics.

Alex reflected: “After developing an interest in physics through school, I started to research extracurricular activities that could support my learning.  The junior physics challenge has been a perfect way to achieve this and get recognised for my effort through a variety of problems both inside and outside the GCSE topics, posing a different style of question to the syllabus and making me approach physics problems from a different angle. Overall, I really enjoyed taking part and would encourage anyone interested to join in next year when the challenge will hopefully be run again.”

We are really proud of Alex as she competed in the challenge alongside her school studies.