Friday 9th October saw our Waynflete Studies prize-winners head to Magdalen College to collect their awards.

The Waynflete Studies Programme is our unique version of the extended project, in which every Lower Sixth pupil has the opportunity to research a topic of their choice, many under the guidance of an external university tutor.

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This year, topics ranged from computer modelling of fusion plasma, to pathogenic archaea and Italian Facism. Prizes were awarded by Professor Andrew Smith, Tutorial Fellow, who was also one of the award’s judges.

Magdalen College School pupils receiving Waynflete Studies Certificates 2020

Overall Winner

John, Physical Sciences

To What Extent will LEDs Replace Existing Lighting Technologies?

 

President’s Prizes

Emma, Biology

To what extent could genetically modifying mosquitoes eliminate Plasmodium falciparum malaria?

 

Freddie, Biology

What do we know about pathogenic archaea?

 

Simon, Economics

Do bike sharing schemes achieve their promoted environmental objectives, and what barriers prevent this?

 

Claire, English

The puppet-master novels: the implications of artifice and experimentalism in American postmodern literature (With a special focus on Kurt Vonnegut’s major works)

 

Gabriel, History

Defending the Race: the Role Played by Fascism and Anti-Semitism in Italian Fascism

 

Amy, Physical / Computer Science

Computer modelling of fusion plasma: to what extent does it fall short of observational phenomena?

 

Fittingly, pupils collected their certificates beneath Magdalen College’s portrait of William Waynflete.

Well done, everyone!