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It is late afternoon on the second floor of the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge. Pooja Shah, Hugh Bennett and Brenna Fielding are preparing a five-minute presentation on James Clerk Maxwell, the Cambridge-educated physicist who developed the theory of electromagnetism, laying the foundations for special relativity and quantum mechanics. As part of it, they are devising a demonstration that will show modern applications of Maxwell's work with the aid of iron filings. Tomorrow, the trio will stand up and give their presentation to an audience of ambitious students from all over the country - and they want it to be interesting. All aged 17 but from three different schools, Pooja, Hugh and Brenna were among 36 students from around the country who last week took part in the fifth Headstart Summer School... [read full story]
