Exeter pupil wins national competition

An Exeter School pupil got curious about Copper and won a national competition.

Middle Fifth pupil Mollie Tettenborn entered the Copper Education Competition, entitled Curious About Copper, and took first prize.

Fifteen-year-old Mollie designed a poster for the Electronics and Communication category which the judges felt was extremely well designed and presented.

They stated that the detailed scientific information on this poster showed a good understanding of the chemistry of copper. The poster also looked at interesting and contained relevant current and future applications of the red metal.

Exeter School Chemistry teacher Manoj Chitnavis said he was proud of Mollie's achievement which showed that she had an excellent understanding of the Chemistry of the element Copper.

"Mollie's success follows Lucas Orchard-Clarke's triumph from 2014.  He won the first prize for - Copper: The Essential Metal in the category of - Architecture and Design," said Mr Chitnavis.

"The judges were impressed by the great design of Lucas' poster too and by his use of colour and the circuitry that formed its background. He presented relevant information and got across strong messages."

Mollie said: "Before, I never grasped just how much we use copper in our day to day lives. Now I notice and appreciate the uses of copper much more wherever I go."

UK students aged 11-16 were asked to design an educational poster, which would appeal to their peers, explaining particular applications of copper and the properties that make it essential to modern living.

Within the two age groups (Key Stage 3, 11-14 and Key Stage 4, 14-16) a winner and a runner up were selected from each of the categories: Buildings and Design, Electronics and Communication, Health and Medicine and Electronics and Communication.