A PAIR of science students have used their knowledge to scoop a national award.
Lower sixth form pupils at Oswestry School took part in the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge during the last academic year.
Ethan McMorran finished in the top 50 per cent and gained a copper award, while Slobodan (Bobo) Markovic was in the top 12 per cent and achieved the challenge's silver award.
The challenge is a national competition aimed at stretching the most able chemistry A-level students in the UK.
Nearly 8,000 entrants took part in this year's Cambridge Chemistry Challenge.
An Oswestry School spokesman said: "Set by an experienced team of teachers and university chemists, it is designed to be accessible to Year 12 students but will take them significantly beyond the syllabus and encourage them to think about science in the way they would at university."
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