SciTec, an award-winning and ground-breaking science complex with 16 state-of-the-art laboratories, first opened in 2007. This latest development, which has focused on uniting the subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), will position Oundle at the heart of applying science and engineering and embrace developments in new fields such as nanotechnology and mechatronics. The aim is to provide ‘practical hands-on experience’, with pupils able to move seamlessly from theory to practice and from pure science to the achievement of workable technology.
Head of Oundle School Sarah Kerr-Dineen said: “Oundle’s SciTec vision has always been about creating the best possible learning environment for our pupils and promoting the intellectual passion of those who teach them. “Bright children learn by making connections: they do not learn subjects in isolation. “These facilities, which brings together science, mathematics, design, technology and engineering both philosophically and physically, will inspire children to make these connections.“We hope that, thanks to SciTec and all that happens within it, the pupils of today – and not only Oundelians – will become the engineers, inventors and innovators of the future.” SciTec, a facility designed to nurture the UK’s next generation of great scientists and engineers, puts Oundle, which lists evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins and astronomer and space scientist Dr Roger Malina among its former pupils, at the forefront of the continuing national drive to produce top quality scientists and engineers. The original design and technology department has been extended and exhaustively refurbished, retaining the ‘large projects’ space for which Oundle is famous and adding two design studios for virtual modelling and prototype development, acoustically segregated from the practical facilities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18574″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”18575″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border” onclick=”link_image”][/vc_column][/vc_row]