During the week commencing 10 July, 60 year 7 students from Carisbrooke and Medina Colleges had the fantastic opportunity to take part in a project called ‘Wavelength’ with a local arts-based charity, Independent Arts.
“Wavelength sets out to inspire and awaken our community to the very special geographical and coastal settings of the Island which have lent themselves to top-level, epoch-making design and testing firsts.
In bringing the arts together with the sciences, we hope to help Island children understand how both disciplines have strong links and can inform one another, and to try to dissolve barriers that have arisen in recent times between the sciences, technology and the arts.” (Kerry Tindall, Programmes Manager, Independent Arts)
The project which was based at The Island VI Form, focused on the work of Robert Hooke, an Island scientist who is best known for his invention of the microscope. Independent Arts designed a number of workshops in response to the work of Robert Hooke, ranging from Suminagashi ‘floating ink’ to wire and stained acetate molecular cloud sculptures inspired by the work of Minjung-Kim.
Students also had the opportunity to visit our science laboratories to gain experience of using the larger microscopes that we have available.
We were incredibly proud of all the students involved as they managed to produce some beautiful final outcomes that fuse the worlds of Science and Art together.
We are excited to announce that the work produced by our students will be on display at The Independent Arts Hub in Newport town centre from Wednesday 16 August – late September.
