school motto is Qui facit per alium facit per se, usually taken to mean "He who does things for others does them for himself". This is an example of a rebus motto, the Latin sentence ending in a word play on the founder's name "per se" and his benefaction. A blue plaque dedicated to the school's founder, Dr Stephen Perse, was installed in Free School Lane, Cambridge. Competitions, Olympiads and scholarships Pupils have competed and scored highly in academic competitions and Olympiads, in addition to winning awards including Arkwright Engineering Scholarships and Nuffield Research Placements (previously Nuffield Science Bursaries). Students have won scholarships for summer placements at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and research institutes in Heidelberg, Germany. British competition results include: First place in the Pi Wars robot competition First place in the Schools' Challenge general knowledge competition First place (winning the Trinity College prize) in the National Cipher Challenge First place in the Bank of England Target Two Point Zero interest rate challenge Invitation to the British Physics Olympiad presentation afternoon (top 4 in the country in the AS Challenge) Qualifying for the UKMT Team Maths Challenge final (winning the poster competition) Qualifying for the British Informatics Olympiad final (top 15 in the country) Qualifying for Round 2 (top 20 to 25 in the country) of the UK Chemistry Olympiad Scoring Gold in Round 1 of United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad Students have also competed in international competitions including the International Mathematical Olympiad, the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad, the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad, the Romanian Master of Mathematics competition, the International Biology Olympiad, the International Olympiad in Informatics, the International Linguistics Olympiad, the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics, the International Rocketry Challenge, the European Union Contest for Young Scientists and the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Innovation In 2018, The Perse School partnered with a Cambridge-based education technology entrepreneur, Rob Percival, to support the creation of an online artificial intelligence maths teaching platform. Blutick in association with The Perse School, exhibited at the BETT Show in London, 2019 to launch a free beta version. Developments The Perse School began accepting girls at 11+ and 13+ in September 2010 and became fully co-educational in September 2012 . Since 2020, The Perse School Cambridge International (TPSCI) has liaised with partners to open up The Perse international schools outside of England. Currently, two international schools have been set up,