In The Press
Bid To Be Top Young Mind
From The Bath Chronicle Thu 12 Feb, 2009
A Bath sixth former has made it through the finals of a national science competition. Rachael Dellar, a student at the Royal High Sixth Form College, will be pitting her research against the best young minds in the country. She will present her project on climate change at the first-ever competition in London in March. If she is successful, she will win £5,000 and the opportunity to visit the NASA Space Centre in Florida. Rachael said: "Doing real research in this vitally important area has been exhilarating and I'm really looking forward to meeting other students and scientists in London. "Naturally, I'm nervous about presenting my work to a panel of distinguished scientists but I'm sure it will do me good." Rachael, who has been offered a place at Oxford University to read biochemistry, has been studying climate change in the Arctic. She spent last summer at the National Oceanograpy Centre in Southampton after winning a Nuffield Science Bursary.