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Nobel prize-winner congratulates pupil for impressive design

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From STEM clubs and community science lectures to a family festival of science and a visit to the Paris opening ceremony of the International Year of Light, one Dorset school is full of ideas about how to engage its students in the study of science, technology, engineering and maths.

Now a pupil at The Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester has won a national competition to celebrate 100 years of women’s membership of The Physiological Society.

The society, which has a membership of more than 3,500 scientists around the world, invited schools to focus on the achievements of women who have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

To enter, pupils were asked to select a female winner of the Nobel Prize, research her discovery and then design a poster summarising the scientist’s findings.

Elsie Moore, a year 11 student at The Thomas Hardye School, decided to produce a poster on Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard. She was part of the team that won the Nobel Prize in 1995 for discovering the key genes responsible for early embryonic development.

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