40 DC boys return to Geneva for our annual visit to CERN Accessing the beamline and seeing the detectors up close. ‘Truly inspiring. Putting literally mind- blowing antimatter physics into context was exciting.’ Ben Hurd, Year 12
DC had continued success in the Physics Olympiad Alfie Curry achieves Gold in the GCSE Challenge and Leslie Leung gains Gold in the AS Challenge. Chihao Li, Fanjun Yang and Henry Dickie placed in the top 50 nationally in the A2 challenge with a further four boys achieving Gold awards.
Qualifying through the UK heats to represent the UK in the international finals in Israel
‘An amazing experience both in an academic and a cultural sense.’
DC Astronomy takes off Following a generous donation by Brian Davies OA (1942-49), a group of enthusiasts purchase a telescope for viewing the night sky.
Year 10 and 11 pupils attend the acclaimed Science Live and Physics in Action Lectures in London ‘All of the talks were both entertaining and informative, and the lecture on the advancements in the field of medical physics was the most interesting.’ Daniel Torren-Peraire, Year 11 DC submits its final proposal for the CERN Beamline for Schools competition Aiming to be the first school to run a particle Physics experiment. ‘Being a member of the team was truly a great opportunity to collaborate with a friendly team of physicists and expand our knowledge; and also to deal with some current world issues.’ Faraz Taheri, Year 12
Forty boys visit QMUL and UCL to attend their international masterclasses, looking at real Higgs Boson data. ‘The best part for me was where we looked at the real data from ATLAS at CERN, and analysed the particles shown. It made me think that becoming a scientist might actually be fun.’ Tae Youn Kim, Year 12
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