Sherborne Pupil wins Imperial College Science prize

Sherborne School fifth former Tom Hole has won the 2009 Imperial College Science Essay prize for his answer to the question "Can renewable energy sources solve the UK's energy problems?". Tom and another highly commended pupil, Paul de Meillac, are invited to the black-tie dinner and presentation in London tonight, where Tom will receive his prize.

Sherborne School is delighted that so many pupils chose to enter the contest this year. This is the same competition that former pupil Hassan Al Halwachi won, and in which Jamie Burke, the current Head of School, was runner up in 2008.

This year the standard of essay was incredibly high, and three of the Sherborne essays were shortlisted by Imperial College as being in the top 10% of all entrants nationally; these three were written by Paul de Meillac (5b), Charlie Hensher (L6a) and Tom Hole (5b).

Three further essays have been highly commended, and these were written by Tristan Merbecks (L6g), Charles Wing (5e) and Simon Davies (L6m).

 Click here to download Tom's essay

Posted: Friday, March 26, 2010