Students among the brightest brains

A GROUP of students studying Physics at Warrington’s Priestley College have excelled in a national Olympiad competition aimed at the country’s brightest brains.
Ten students sat the first stage of the British Physics Olympiad which encourages wider study of the subject and aims to recognise excellence.
Hayley Jones, James Barlow, Ben Pilling and Sam Furby all achieved a participation certificate for their efforts. Meanwhile Viny Kakopa, Robin Brabham, Matthew Bird, Adam Milner, Iain Findley and Bartosz Batrmanski, all achieved a merit certificate.
Five of the group then went onto tackle the more demanding second stage of the competition with Robin leading from the front with a silver award placing him in the top 18 per cent in the country, while Matthew, Adam, Iain and Bartosz all achieved bronze.
Robin, aged 17, said: “I enjoyed taking part in the Olympiad. It was good to go beyond the regular syllabus and try different things. It was a quite strenuous paper and very useful for my university application as I am hoping to study medicine.”
Pictured: Priestley students who were successful in the British Physics Olympiad.