Category: <span>Special Event</span>

Celebrating the region’s best school scientists

Every year Science Oxford celebrates outstanding Year 13 science students across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire at our Young Scientists of the Year Award. Usually, the event is held amongst the dinosaurs…

Celebrating the best of Bucks

Can you imagine what your future may hold? That was the daunting question posed to the 49 secondary school students who we welcomed to our Buckinghamshire Young Scientists of the…

Oxfordshire Young Scientists of the Year 2019

To be a Young Scientist of the Year, you need attributes such as enthusiasm, creativity and a willingness to take on-board new ideas, all whilst being determined and focussed. Last…

Work Experience student chalks up a win at Chiltern Rangers

A remarkable student from Lord Williams’s School in Thame took part in the Science Oxford Summer Placement scheme with the Chiltern Rangers during August 2018 and has won their prestigious…

Young Oxfordshire Scientists Celebrate under the T-rex

There’s nothing like taking a step back from our busy schedule of school outreach visits, work placements and careers day to enjoy an evening of celebration. The Young Scientists of…

Celebration evening for Oxfordshire’s best school scientists

Some of the county’s most talented and inspiring young scientists are to be celebrated next week at a special event organised by Science Oxford at the Oxford University Museum of…

Students ‘meet the scientists’ at Dunn School

As part of our STEM Experience Week in March, students from three Oxfordshire secondary schools visited research-based organisations and STEM businesses across the region to explore what a STEM-based career…

IF you can dream – Science & Ideas Festival launches schools poetry competition

Science Oxford is proud to be supporting this year’s IF Oxford festival – formerly known as the Oxfordshire Science Festival – and the IF Oxfordshire schools poetry competition especially. The…

Young Scientists Shine in Buckinghamshire

Some of Buckinghamshire’s most talented and inspiring young scientists have been celebrated at a special evening we held recently in partnership with the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust. As with our Oxfordshire…

New celebration event for Buckinghamshire’s best school scientists

Some of the county’s most talented and inspiring young scientists are to be celebrated at a very special event hosted by Science Oxford and the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust. The Buckinghamshire…

Celebrate Oxfordshire brightest science stars

Eighty young people from 30 Oxfordshire schools have been commended as potential science stars of the future at a special Science Oxford celebration. Our annual Young Scientists of the Year…

Young Scientists to be Celebrated

Calling all secondary school science teachers. It’s time to nominate your most amazing students for our ‘Young Scientists of the Year 2017’ celebration, which honours some of Oxfordshire’s most outstanding…

Carnival Time!

We’re going to be busy this weekend as both Cowley and Eynsham go fiesta crazy! On Saturday 1st July we’ll be at Eynsham Carnival where entertainment includes a shirt race,…

Oxfordshire Science Festival Schools Poetry competition 2017

From texting to celebrity tweeting, amusing memes or hashtag-ing lunch, the world around us has never been so obsessively observed and widely shared via technology – text is trending! Both…

A winning formula at technology tournament

Science Oxford is excited to be sponsoring the prizes for the Foundation winners at the Rotary Club of High Wycombe Technology Tournament 2017 for the second time. Twenty-five teams will…

10 Free Back from the Dead Workshops for Schools

In 2016-17 the Museum of the History of Science will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first clinical trials of penicillin which took place in Oxford in 1941 with a…

Young Scientists of the Year 2016

This celebration is an opportunity for Oxfordshire’s secondary schools to nominate their best Year 13 students in Physics, Chemistry and Biology to be acknowledged for their outstanding efforts in science…

Science Oxford on board with maritime project to MAP the Black Sea

Roger Baker, Education Support Officer at Science Oxford, embarked on a unique and exciting research trip to the Black Sea where he spent ten days mentoring four A-Level STEM students selected for the trip of…

BIG SCIENCE EVENT 2016 WINNERS

Some of the region’s top young primary science prodigies have been battling it out to win the Big Science Event 2016 – a Science Oxford science competition in which primary…

The Big Science Event Oxfordshire

The motivational power of cabbage If you ever needed a simple explanation of a complicated scientific concept I think I might just refer you to a nine year-old. Some of…