A Harrogate teenager attended a national awards ceremony in a historic venue after achieving one of the highest scores in a prestigious physics competition.
Patrick Fleming, a year 12 student at Rossett School, achieved a ‘gold’ in the British Physics Olympiad senior challenge.
As a result, he was one of just five students from around 6,000 entrants to be invited to the annual awards ceremony at the Royal Society in London.
Patrick said:
“Visiting The Royal Society was really inspiring, especially looking around the many portraits of previous fellows and heads of the society since it was founded in 1660.
“It was also amazing to talk to other young physicists and receive such a prestigious award. “
Patrick is currently studying maths, physics, computer science and further maths at A level, and was joined in the competition by a number of other talented students.
The Olympiad, hosted by the University of Oxford, aims to encourage younger students to study physics and recognises excellence among them through a series of competitions.
The senior challenge saw students sit a one-hour paper designed to test their problem-solving abilities.
Rossett School physics teacher Stephanie Hunt said:
“Well done to all our students who took part in the Olympiad, and congratulations to Patrick for his exceptional achievement – we are incredibly proud of him.”
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