Will Williams, Senior and Academic Deputy Head at Pangbourne College, discusses the benefits of implementing technology in classrooms, how to maintain the school’s ethos when doing so, and the challenges faced.

Thirteen-year-old Brentwood School pupil Tabitha Williams was a finalist in a UK-wide computing competition run by the University of Oxford.

Brentwood School’s robot may have been expelled from the BBC 2 Robot Wars bulletproof arena on Sunday night, but the young team did enough to secure a place in the Ten Robot Rumble.

Leighton Park’s credentials as a centre of excellence for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics gained a further boost with a Matthew Meade, a Lower Sixth student, winning a prestigious Arkwright Engineering Scholarship.

Under the slogan of ‘Dream big, start small, act now’, 60 enthusiastic Sixth Formers and a number of engaging industry experts were ‘full STEAM ahead’ as they generated an audible buzz at the Cisco Offices on Green Park on November 9-10.

A team of 17-year old boys at the City of London School have won a gold medal and four special prizes at the iGEM finals in the USA, working on a novel technique to diagnose cancer easily, cheaply and at a curable stage.