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Let’s take these opportunities to show science is for everyone

Outreach and enrichment activities are vital for ensuring that pupils see chemistry (and science and STEM) as relevant to them. Among the key findings from the 2019 report, Chemistry for All, is the positive impact that such outreach and enrichment opportunities have on students’ self-belief.

This opinion article makes the link between outreach activities such as the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Global experiments and events such as British Science week, highlighting their importance in demonstrating that science is for everyone. 

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