Blog feedScience success for Glasgow pupils
June 26th, 2009
Interest in their baby cousins’ nappies has brought victory for two pupils at Smithycroft Secondary School, Glasgow, in the Xperimania school competition. The ‘Check out the property!’ competition, run via the Xperimania website aimed to promote science education with easy and fun experiments on properties, materials and their impact on daily life.
In their winning work, Jack M and Nicola B investigated and tested the properties of disposable baby nappies, and discovered the material – polyacrylate – which makes nappies water absorbent.
Almost 900 secondary school students from 20 European countries participated. The school wins 2000 Euro.
Xperimania is organised by the Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe (Appe), and coordinated by European Schoolnet on their behalf. All schools in the European Union and candidate countries can participate in this free programme.