North Penn Engineering Students Head To London For International Conference

LANSDALE, PA -- North Penn's talented and widely lauded engineering department is headed to an international science conference in London.

The students will present their research at the conference held at St. Paul's School.

Students were invited after a noted physics teacher and head of science at St. Paul's, James Perkins visited North Penn in November to speak. Perkins came away very impressed with the department's The Future is N.E.A.R. program, which stands for Nanotechnology Education and Research.

North Penn students, under direction of department chair Mike Boyer, are using a rare technology - a scanning electron microscope - for their research. Perkins also has one at St. Paul's, and after seeing North Penn's work, invited them to the conference.

North Penn is the first high school to represent the US at this international conference.

Funding was provided by the North Penn Educational Foundation.

Image via screenshot courtesy North Penn