She’s a star! Camden School for Girls' sixth-former Anna Barth part of scientific lecture to House of Commons

Published: 10 March 2011
by JOSIE HINTON

A SCIENCE whizz at Camden School for Girls wowed MPs with her knowledge of physics and astronomy yesterday (Wednesday) during a special meeting at the House of Commons.

Sixth-former Anna Barth, 18, joined five other promising young scientists giving evidence to The Science and Technology Committee on what inspires them to study astronomy and physics.

Anna, who was invited to contribute after a summer work placement at University College London (UCL), told the committee more needed to be done to bring science to life.

“I took physics kind of on a whim as I hadn’t enjoyed it at all at GCSE and I didn’t really get a handle on what a scientist actually does,” she told MPs. “It was only through work experience that I was able to see science in practice which was really inspiring.”

And Anna praised physics teachers at Camden School for Girls who organised a trip to CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research – where top physicists are working to find out how the Universe works – and said they had inspired her to study physics and natural sciences at university. She hopes to go to university in Cambridge, Edinburgh or Manchester.