BGS Chemistry

Updates from the Chemistry Department @BedfordGirlsSch.

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

⬇️⬇️ here is @CrocodileChemi1 winning entry! #WomenInSTEM #indicators

[CrocodileChemist @CrocodileChemi1]

#GardenIndicators - Evaluating garden pH indicators in a collaborative project by Citizen Science on Twitter #RSCEdu #RSCPoster. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project, it kept us busy during lockdown and I’ve certainly learnt some new chemistry!

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Congratulations to our Science Technician Mrs Everest @CrocodileChemi1 for winning the @royalsociety #RSCEdu competition for her research on garden pH indicators 🌈 perhaps this will make an appearance at chemical curiosities! #WomenInSTEM #indicators

[Royal Society of Chemistry @RoySocChem]

10.#RSCPoster #RSCEdu first place for Primary & Secondary Ed category goes to @CrocodileChemi1. Congratulations on your brilliant poster! https://t.co/dp77qpaMnB ✨

[Bedford Girls' School @BedfordGirlsSch]

Our wonderful nurses and trained staff are on-site providing COVID Lateral Flow Testing for all key worker children and staff.

A huge thank you to all those staff that have continued to deliver crucial services on-site. #BGSCommunity #BGSTogether #ThankYou

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Our Chemist-tree is taking pride of place in the Science department 🎄 featuring baubles detailing Women in Science. We had lots of fantastic entries for the house competition ran by @BGSSmartScience Doesn’t it look great 😍👩🏽‍🔬🌈 #chemistree #womeninstem #ochemistree

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

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[CrocodileChemist @CrocodileChemi1]

Inspired by Rosalind Franklin’s contribution to unravelling the structure of DNA, this #Chemistree uses droplets of red cabbage, butterfly pea flower, methyl orange & bromothymol blue with NaOH, HCl, water, Na₃H(CO₃)₂ & NaHCO₃. Celebrating women in Chemistry! #IndicatorArt 🎄

[Ms Smart @BGSSmartScience]

#Chemistree

[Ms Smart @BGSSmartScience]

Inspiration for our #Chemistree competition!

[Bedford Girls' School @BedfordGirlsSch]

How it started vs. How it’s going now – our state-of-the-art Science Department 😍👩‍🔬🧪 #BGSInnovation #STEM

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Not to forget these amazing women, pioneering the way for #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Fantastic post this morning by @the_female_lead and @Stemettes celebrating 5 black women in STEM who changed the World 👩🏽‍🔬👩🏾‍🔬 #BlackHistoryMonthUK #womeninstem #inspirationalwomen

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Please read this great article written by one of our fabulous A Level Chemistry students 🥰 #inspiringstories #bgscommunity

[BGS Sixth Form @BGSSixth_Form]

Focus on: Meet Sabira y13, she is studying Maths, Economics and Chemistry and hoping to read Economics and Management at University. She loves all things football and recently wrote this article... https://t.co/kJ03cn4R6n

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Congratulations Nikeisha 👏🏼👏🏼

[Hertford College, Oxford @HertfordCollege]

With an incredible 18,000 views, the winner of the Audience Award for most-watched video is Nikeisha from @BedfordGirlsSch 🏆 Her video couldn't be more appropriate for #COVID19 as Ignaz Semmelweis pioneered hand-washing to prevent infection https://t.co/Qwk7zOkr8K 6/10

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Congratulations Shreya 👏🏼👏🏼

[Hertford College, Oxford @HertfordCollege]

In third place and runner-up in the Audience Award for most-watched video is Shreya from @BedfordGirlsSch 🥉 Her video about Gertrude Elion illuminates the under-appreciated work of this biochemist whose work led to the first drug for AIDS https://t.co/xWlmGS9pgs 4/10

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

This is AMAZING 🥰 What incredibly talented students (and staff!) we have 🥰 If you need something to brighten up your day then this is it 🌈 Well done @BGS_MusicDept 🎉👏🏼 #bgscommunity

[BGS Music @BGS_MusicDept]

Good morning BGS! It is hard to believe we are in the final week of the year with Senior Sports Day in full swing. Well to help spur you on, our whole school virtual performance project of 'Lean on me' by Bill Withers. #stayingconnected, #BGSasone.
https://t.co/iL37MSyfzt

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

The Chemistry department have had a lovely couple of days in school welcoming back Year 12 Chemists. They have been completing two of the A Level required practicals (PAGs) which they have missed whilst being off school. LOOK AT THAT SILVER MIRROR 🥰😍 #alevelchemistry #ocr

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

This looks amazing!!

[Bedford Girls' School @BedfordGirlsSch]

Darwin’s Tree of Life looks amazing in the @BGSBiologyDept 🦞🐘🦍🌱🌿

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Excited to see our Year 12 Chemists this week as well 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[BGS Biology @BGSBiologyDept]

How fabulous to be back with our ALevel and IB Biologists, conducting socially distanced fieldwork at Cople fields. Lots of data collected and great to see the girls in person! #transect #simpsonsindexofdiversity

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Another one of our chemists, Nikeisha, is also through the the national finals of the Hereford College, Oxford, Unsung Heroes of Science competition. 🎉 Please watch her video below on Ignaz Semmelweis 👨🏻‍🔬 helps her get as many views as possible ⬇️⬇️

[Bedford Girls' School @BedfordGirlsSch]

Nikeisha Patel's (Lower Sixth) fantastic stop motion entry for the @HertfordCollege Unsung Heroes of Science award is about Ignaz Semmelweis, the early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Watch below 👇 https://t.co/NfTCENpNL6

[BGS Chemistry @BGS_Chemistry]

Shreya, one our year 12 chemists, is through the the national finals of the Hereford College, Oxford, Unsung Heroes of Science competition. 🎉 Please watch her video below on Gertrude Elion 🧑🏼‍🔬 helps her get as many views as possible ⬇️⬇️⬇️

[Bedford Girls' School @BedfordGirlsSch]

We are thrilled to announce that Lower Sixth students, Shreya Arun & Nikeisha Patel, have been shortlisted for the prestigious @HertfordCollege Unsung Heroes of Science award. 🥼🧪

Watch Shreya's fab video about American biochemist, Gertrude Elion 👇 https://t.co/0uGA8ueZUf

[Bedford Girls' School @BedfordGirlsSch]

Nikeisha Patel's (Lower Sixth) fantastic stop motion entry for the @HertfordCollege Unsung Heroes of Science award is about Ignaz Semmelweis, the early pioneer of antiseptic procedures. Watch below 👇 https://t.co/NfTCENpNL6