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www.abingdon.org.uk 5 At the end of a day of tough competition, the CCF cadets were surprised and elated to hear that they had won the Air Squadron Trophy Competition regional stage, progressing through to the national competition. Junior Corporal Breach picked up an individual prize and the team was awarded the RAF Knowledge Trophy. The cadets thoroughly deserved their victory, with superb teamwork and tremendous individual efforts. Surprise success in Air Squadron Trophy Competition Enthusiastic physicists joined forces to compete against schools from across the country in the annual Big Physics Quiz held at Birmingham University. Besides taking part in the quiz, students toured the university and enjoyed a lecture on gravitational waves. Big Physics Quiz Eden Lam, Garfield Zhang, Jason Ng and Brian Ho put in an excellent performance in the Maths Feast competition, taking joint first place in the ‘Main Course’ - comprehension round, and being the standout winners of the ‘Petits-Fours’ Relay Round. Fourth Year Maths Feast A team of second year Science Ambassadors has developed a model hand-washing station as part of the Practical Action charity’s Stop the Spread challenge. Jack Tilley, Alex Long, Luka Shanidze, Josh Giles-Friend and Matthew Fowler demonstrated their model at the Association for Science Education (ASE) 2017 conference. The British Science Association has awarded all the boys a CREST Discovery Award. Stop the Spread