The SPQ project is an amazing opportunity for our students to complete meaningful research relating to their subject areas.

It helps them to develop necessary practical skills that they will need in higher education - and indeed their careers - and gives them a chance to extend their interests beyond the curriculum. The main outcomes of the project are:

• To develop students’ academic literacy 
• To provide students with a direct experience of research 
• To develop students’ skills of collaboration, communication and self-management 
• To develop students’ presentation skills

The project itself is made up of three parts:

1. A written literature review to introduce the problem and to showcase their research skills
2. One of the following: a written report, a poster designed in LaTeX, a podcast or a documentary
3. A five to ten-minute presentation at the end of the school year to staff, parents, governors, mentors and other invited guests

This flipbook contains the project briefs that our students were able to choose from in the academic year 2024-25:

These are some of the brilliant literature reviews that our students have produced:

• AI-based waste sorting system
• Analysis of avian perching manoeuvres
• Articulatory phonetics GenAI with natural language prompts
• Computer programmes predicting musical tastes
• Conic sections and the Kepler problem
• Convergence and divergence of infinite series
• Enhancing urban living in smart cities
• Enhancing urban living in smart cities (different group)
• Fractal sequences and the Mandelbrot set
• Fresnal integrals
• How to protect against quantum hackers
• Latin Squares
• Mathematics of the jet stream
• Predicting hourly gas demands in the grid
• Solving polynomials
• Why don't plants get sunburn?

Here are some photos of the exciting SPQ Presentation Event that we host each year at the University of Surrey: