• Question: What message would your plan do eg. promote sceince share sceince ?

    Asked by 09crumptonpop to Zoe, Sharon, Louise, Jon, Daniel on 17 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by dantheman, bcamp.
    • Photo: Sharon Sneddon

      Sharon Sneddon answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      My plan would be to try and get people to understand what stem cells are and why they are important, in a way thats not too complicated! Some people don’t like science because they think that you need to be really intelligent to do it, when that’s not the case, its just you need to be able to tell people what you do in an interesting and easy to understnd way, so they dont get bored or confused and thats what I would like to try and do!

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      Jon Copley answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      With the prize, I’d be able to share the science that I do – not just telling school students about it, but getting them involved in helping with the research, because I don’t think you can just learn about science from textbooks and talks – you have to try it too.

      So if I were to win, I’d like to use the prize money to buy the equipment we need to create a live communications link between our research ship and students in any classroom with an internet connection. Then students could see what we see from the cameras on our underwater vehicles on the ocean floor – and get involved in making decisions about where we explore and what we do next during our dives.

      Hopefully, the students who are excited about driving an underwater vehicle around and helping to make new discoveries will then tell other people about it, so that then promotes science as well. 🙂

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      Zoe Duck answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      It would inform people about all the important and interesting things microbes do that people dont realise such as making oil, renewable energy, light producers, food producers and degraders and helping us to digest our food.

    • Photo: Louise Dash

      Louise Dash answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      The plan if I get the £500? Well, I’d like to set up a website that would introduce primary school kids to the wonders of quantum mechanics, the really weird physics of tiny objects where things can be in more than one place at a time, and things can be both waves and particles at the same time! I think that would both promote science and share it, at least I hope so!

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