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The Japan 2001 Science, Creativity and the Young Mind Workshop constitutes an important first in bringing together post-16 students from schools across Britain and Japan to work in small teams with top scientists, engineers and social scientists on a wide range of open-ended science-related explorations which challenge their ingenuity and creativity. In the process the students will not only put their school knowledge to genuine use and discover something of the "scientist in themselves", but also by living and working together come to understand each other's ways of thinking and working.
That science in a practical real-life context resonates with young people is demonstrated by the fact that the Workshop was rapidly oversubscribed in both countries and, significantly, that the majority of takers are young women.
The outcomes of the Workshop will not only be in widening the vision of the students taking part, but also in providing a very important marker for future collaboration between our two countries. In this context, I welcome the vision of the Clifton Scientific Trust in setting up this Workshop, of the Japan 2001 Festival in endorsing it as a Festival event, and of the many partners in both countries who have contributed to its realisation. Not least, I number among these the University of Bristol Widening Participation Office, Airbus UK, the Environment Agency, and other Bristol institutions and, in Japan, the Chemical Society of Japan who have worked with the other Japanese scientific societies in recruiting students. Also, the principal sponsors, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, and the Japan 2001 Secretariat itself.
Most of all, I welcome the young people from our two countries whose energy and enthusiasm will pioneer such an exciting and important new venture.
| Lord Sainsbury of Turville Minister for Science and Innovation July 2001 |
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As a patron of the Japan 2001 Science, Creativity and the Young Mind Workshop, I am delighted to add my welcome to that of other people. I have followed the preparations for this event by Dr. Albone with admiration and I am in no doubt that all the participants are in for a very interesting and worthwhile experience. The more we can build international links among young people, particularly in the field of science which is entirely international in its impact, the better it will be for the future of the human race and of the world we inhabit. This Workshop provides a notable milestone on this path and I wish you and it every possible success. |
PATRICK JENKIN
(The Rt.Hon. The Lord Jenkin of Roding)
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