conclusion of St Joseph’s School’s participation in Science Week.

Students learned that scientists aren’t geeks in lab coats and that the subject won’t put you to sleep, but will stimulate and amuse you.

As part of the program, students rotated between activities which included building the solar system, digging for dinosaur bones, creating biospheres,

making model windmills, drawing a scientist on a computer and, the piece de resistance, building and erupting a model volcano.

Students – after hypothesising and theorising – concluded that “science really does rock”.

Perhaps as a result of this week’s activities, a new Alexander Florey, Sir Mark Oliphant or, dare we say, an Indiana Jones, may arise to shake the scientific world as we know it?

PHOTO: SHOTSHOTS...Building a model volcano, eventually to erupt safely, were Sam Mattey, left, Ethan Weber, Cliff Fielding teacher Regina Amey, Bryce Tuckwell, and Patrick O’Dea as part of Science Week at Peterborough’s St Joseph’s school.