Over 200 students attended the Sutton Trust Summer School at Imperial this summer.

Imperial hosted over 200 Y12 students in August 2016 on the Sutton Trust summer schools. The programme is one of many that the Outreach team run throughout the summer for school students from backgrounds under-represented in higher education. It is funded by the College and the Sutton Trust, a leading social mobility charity.

The programme participants applied to study one of nine different subject offerings, all of which were designed to give them a realistic experience of undergraduate study. Options for this summer were Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Bioengineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computing, Maths, Physics and Physics with Materials.

Participants took part in an active social programme, led by two alumni, culminating in a formal dinner on the final night of the programme designed to celebrate the students’ achievements which also included key note speeches from Prof Robert Winston and Prof Maggie Dallman.

The overall aim of the summer school programme is to demonstrate the accessibility of higher education and by allowing the students to experience it first hand, participants are afforded the opportunity to test-drive a subject before the UCAS application cycle in the autumn.