Prestigious Engineering Experience at RAL

On Wednesday 9th November, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories (RAL) in Oxfordshire hosted the launch of the Engineering Experience Programme EEP 2022-23.

Six Lower Sixth students – Caelum (L6EMM), Basel (L6SJA), Felix (L6MEW), Leo (L6REM), Marcus (L6QAC), Shyam (L6RSK) – attended this launch with their teachers Dr ChoudhuryFieret and Mr Gilbey. John Lyon was selected nationally to be one of only five schools hand-picked to join this highly prestigious programme, mentored and funded by the Science and Technology and Facilities Council (STFC).

STFC programme organisers said: “The programme is very oversubscribed, but we felt that your application was a really good fit and so would be delighted if a team of students from John Lyon could take part.”

Each of the six students was then selected by the School on the merit of their individual applications. The project’s fascinating brief is: “Extraterrestrial Habitat Development” and it will involve considerable research on the part of students, using this brief as a guide. The background provides a summary of underlying physics, engineering and computer science ideas: considerations when creating an extra-terrestrial habitat and how elements of this project relate to real projects. During the launch of the project at RAL, our students also had the opportunity to meet members of the team who worked on the James Webb telescope, from conception to launch. n