Cambridge bridge

Program 2: Leader 2017 – Day 9

We have only four jam-packed days left of what has been a wonderful time at Reach Cambridge. Classes were once again busy with exciting activities including the Medical Sciences and Chemistry students getting gloved up and synthesising antibiotics from aspirin and then testing them on live bacteria!     Meanwhile, the computer science students went…
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Punting on the river

Program 2: Leader 2017 – Day 7

What an eventful day! We started off with the regular breakfast and morning classes. The Biotech class went on a trip to a global provider of laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment based in Royston. These lucky students got to chat to some of employees, and were even invited into a Restricted section in the TAP laboratory, and got to…
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Reach Cambridge

Program 2: Leader 2017 – Day 3

Today was another busy and exciting day at Reach!  The students attended their various morning classes across Downing and Trinity Hall College. The Medical Science and Chemistry classes had a particularly exciting time learning about pre-hospital emergency medicinal practice. This included our Supervisor and Welfare Coordinator James being carried off in a stretcher (just for…
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Reach Cambridge

Program 2: Leader 2017 – Day 2

Today marks the second day of our Reach Leader program! Students have all settled in now and we have had a great day of classes, activities and the Reach Photo. Students once again started the day with a hearty breakfast in either Downing College or Trinity Hall before being escorted to their lessons by our…
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Reach Explorer

Program 2: Leader 2017 – Day 1

Today marks the first day of our second Reach Cambridge program – and what a day it turned out to be! The day started with our students having breakfast in the lovely Butterfield café of Downing College and the awesome dining hall of Trinity Hall, before being escorted by our amazing team of orange-shirted supervisors…
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Reach Cambridge

Program 2: Leader 2017 – Arrivals Day!

We can barely believe it. It feels we have only just said goodbye to our wonderful Program 1 students, and already it is time to welcome another group of incredible teenagers to the Reach Cambridge family! I regret to report that the students have had the absolute quintessential British summertime experience today: it’s been grey…
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Sports at the Paddock

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 18

The penultimate day of Reach was action-packed; classes in the morning included delving into the mental habits of happiness in Psychology, and questioning what freedom means in 20th-Century Britain in the Politics & International Relations class. In Life Sciences & Medicine, students got into some problem-based learning, exploring clinical scenarios, and in English Literature &…
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Fundraising with Sabre

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 17

  Today was a big day here at Reach Cambridge – SABRE day! Central Cambridge boomed to the sound of African drums this afternoon as part of a charity fundraiser organised and run by our Community Outreach students. Reach has a long established relationship with the SABRE charity, who work with the Ghanaian government to…
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Cake decorating

Program 1: Explorer 2017 – Day 16

Today was off to a dynamic start, with the Physics and Engineering class getting the opportunity to build and launch their very own rockets (see video below)! The Law and Politics classes also got to venture into London on a day trip, where they visited a top City law firm. The firm was so big it even…
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