National Science Week
Over the past fortnight, while Year 12 students were occupied with trial examinations, Year 11 Shadow Council and the SRC stepped up to the occasion, taking on the responsibility of organising and managing student leadership events. Shadow Council successfully executed the important events of Bullying No Way Week, a newly introduced Kindness Week, and R U OK? Week. Each member of the council contributed meaningfully to the wellbeing culture of our school community.
In addition to these initiatives, a number of students took the opportunity to raise awareness and celebrate National Science Week, an event that's regularly held nationally across schools in NSW. However, although this was the first time Beverly Hills Girls held this event, with this year's theme, "Seeds of Science”, council members from junior years assisted in bringing recognition to the display that was installed at the front of a classroom.
This was a critical initiative SRC had to place importance on in order to inspire young women at our school to become our future doctors, physicists, chemists and geologists and to ensure that girls at our school should never give up on their dreams. Our science faculty works hard to ensure girls at our school express their passion for the subject and supply them with the correct resources that will get them to achieve their goals. To honour the contributions of women in science, recognising individuals whose discoveries have shaped and expanded numerous fields within STEM. This is so vital to show the girls that like these renowned women, our students can also aspire to achieve great lengths like them.
Among those recognised was Rosalind Franklin — fittingly also the namesake of one of our house sporting groups — whose research was instrumental in understanding the structure of the DNA double helix.
We congratulate the SRC on their initiative in bringing recognition to National Science Week, and look forward to this becoming an established tradition within our school calendar in the years to come.
Shreya A
Marie Curie (1867-1924)
Won Nobel Prize for physics for radioactivity and a nobel prize for chemistry
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the award in two different fields.
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
Captured the critical X-ray diffraction image (Photo 51) that revealed the double-helix structure of DNA
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)
A British chemist who won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to map the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
Etheldred Benett (1776–1845): An English pioneer often credited as the first female geologist, renowned for her extensive fossil collections and detailed stratigraphy work of southwest England.
