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Science Trip to Keele University

Sixth Form College Science students gain a brief insight into what it will be like to have access to university level state-of-the-art equipment for their class experiments.

Keele University Labs

Twenty-Four students, who are currently in their second year of the BTEC National Diploma in Applied Science, were treated to a trip to Keele University in order to experience use of their undergraduate laboratory and take advantage of their highly sophisticated and expensive equipment (each spectrometer costs in excess of £20,000!)

The trip comes as the University Quarter Science and Technology Centre continues to grow right next door to the new college, soon to be home to superb Higher Education facilities and equipment that our science students will have access to daily from September 2012.

The experiments which the two groups were conducting formed part of the Chemistry component of the BTEC level 3 course unit 22: Chemical Laboratory Techniques.

Whilst in the college labs, students have planned and carried out a wide variety of experimental work including organic preparations, titrations and even tried to get iron out of cornflakes!

In addition, the students needed to understand and carry out spectroscopic techniques as these are a vital tool for any chemist working in industry. Keele University Chemistry department offers the latest in technology in their new undergraduate laboratories and our students were given the opportunity to use the infra-red spectrometers to identify a series of unknown samples.

Rachel Downes, formerly of Clayton Hall Business & Language College said; "It was very helpful to use the spectrometers rather than just learning about them and seeing videos in class - it really helped us to understand how and why they are used."

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