Trafford and Stockport College Group is delighted to celebrate the outstanding achievement of our First Year Physics Olympic Team, who recently represented the college at the Physics Olympics hosted by the University of Liverpool.
The team, Lukas Sharples, Leyla Hasam, Zainab Riyadh and Benyamin Naderi, travelled to Liverpool to take part in a full day of challenging, physics-based activities designed to test problem-solving, teamwork and planning skills.
Competing against 28 other teams from sixth-form colleges across Merseyside, Manchester, Wales and Yorkshire, including Stretford Grammar, Carmel College, Cheadle Hulme School and the Liverpool Maths School, our students performed exceptionally well.
Despite many competing teams being made up of Year 2 students, our First Year team rose to the challenge and secured an impressive 6th place out of 29 teams.
Jason Sutton, Physics Teacher and Academic Programme Leader at Cheadle College, said: “I am very proud of the students’ commitment to give up a Saturday to travel to Liverpool. They competed extremely well against strong competition from sixth-form colleges across Northern England.
They demonstrated teamwork, collaboration, lateral thinking, organisation and planning with a physics slant, and represented their subject area, department and the wider college group positively. Their achievement should rightly be celebrated.”
Dr Ellis Rintoul, Lecturer in Physics at the University of Liverpool, praised our students and said: “Cheadle College did very well overall, playing very competitively in three events. Congratulations to your students again, tied sixth place is an excellent achievement.”
