Last week (1st- 4th of July) I attended the Senior Physics Challenge boot camp held at Churchill college, Cambridge. 41 attendees were selected due to high performance in the Senior Physics Challenge (which ran from the end of last year to April this year) in which students answer questions of varying difficulty across different areas of physics including mechanics, waves, fields and circuits. The Senior Physics Challenge (SPC) bootcamp looked at an introduction to quantum mechanics. Throughout the week we had lectures in the Pippard lecture theatre held by Professor Mark Warner and solved problems from the Cavendish Quantum Mechanics Primer (co-written by Professor Warner).

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