The 2016 Higgs Prize for Advanced Higher Physics was won by a former pupil Charlotte Facherty
This is an annual Prize, first awarded in 2013, for the top-performing male and female candidates at Advanced Higher Physics, at a publicly-funded school. The prize itself is a unique visit to the CERN international research facility near Geneva, to meet Scottish researchers as part of CERN’s annual undergraduate summer school programme. The Scottish Government covers all related expenses for the winners to make this visi.
Charlotte received her certificate from the Science Minister, Shirley-Anne Somerville, who then took both winners and their parents for lunch in the Scottish Parliament.
Charlotte is actually the second Boroughmuir pupil who has won the Higgs Prize – Lucy Willets-White was one of the inaugural winners in 2013. So the school and our Physics Department are rightly very proud!
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