QET Labs welcomes the Future Brunels
“The Future Brunels programme aims to inspire and enthuse young people with science and engineering throughout their time at secondary school. By introducing young people to the impacts science and engineering have already on their own and other’s lives, and to the range of career options available to them through studying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects, the programme encourages the Future Brunels to consider careers in the broadest set of STEM fields.” - Future Brunels Website On Thursday 9 th March, twelve Future Brunels students aged 13 and 14 visited the QET Labs team to investigate the wave nature of light, and how this can be used to measure minute distances such as the width of a single animal hair. The group began with a talk from PhD student Sam Morley-Short, who described the long-standing 17 th Century feud between scientists trying to determine whether light is made of waves or particles. After learning how the wave na...