Brilliant Club Graduation

Earlier this year we attended the Brilliant Club Scholar’s Programme. This is a programme in which you get given a project – in our case, Illuminating the body. With this project we had to complete weekly sessions with a PhD tutor and received homework tasks which eventually linked to the final assignment. This assignment was an essay which ranged between 1300-1500 words. This was officially assessed and graded by our PhD tutor.  Our project was based on illuminating the body. This project taught us the basic principles of neuroscience and neuroengineering. In this project we learnt various skills involving topics like brain imaging methods, light absorbance, blood oxygenation levels and spectroscopy. At the start of the programme we had a chance to write an essay. This essay was about a type of engineer of our choice. We believe this was a good experience to start to programme as it not only introduced us to the topic but it also helped us be more creative with our writing and teach us an important life skill of how to write essays. One thing we had to overcome during our journey was how to write and improve essays including helping us to use references which we have never used before. One thing we particularly enjoyed was learning how light is absorbed and emitted. When we finished the final assignment we had a graduation trip to Goldsmiths University. The trip was very fun as we had many good experiences such as a tour around the school campus. During the graduation we were awarded for our great achievements of finishing the programme. While at the university we also got an opportunity to speak to student ambassadors of the university and ask any questions we may have had about going to university. Overall we believe it was a great experience as it gave us an insight into university learning and deepened our understanding.