Year 11 and 13 Visit the Welcome Genome Campus in Cambridge

On Thursday 26 February a group of year 11 and 13 students visited the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridge. This was the culmination of the ‘Barcoding for beginners’ project on DNA sequencing that has taken place as a joint venture between the school and the campus. Students spent a day in school extracting and sequencing the DNA from local insects and then a day at the campus carrying out various practical activities, a speed networking activity where they met a number of scientists working at the campus and got to see inside one of the world-leading sequencing labs. This was a unique experience which gave them an insight into a career in bioinformatics.