• Question: what would you do with ur prize money

    Asked by vijitha to Zoe, Louise, Daniel, Jon, Sharon on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by leematikaryan, taahir, shadia13, rexy13, jakey, stephaniiee12, n0tty1997, danp, shonagregory, shannonleanne1x, benmiller1997, maisie1, vijaldm, freyaburnett, kishen31, olirara, hanshi96, nidhi6.
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      Zoe Duck answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      I would use it to run a couple of science days for local children and their families to learn more about science in a fun way. I would focus on the roles of microbes but would include some other science too.

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      Sharon Sneddon answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I would like to use the money to take my stem cell workshop out to schools to let you guys have a go at doing some experiments on stem cells and learn more about them. Do you think that’s a good idea? Would you like me to come to your school?

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      Jon Copley answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      I’d like to buy a computer server that will let school students take control of one of our underwater vehicles during our expeditions, so you can explore the ocean floor for yourselves during a lesson.

      It’s *your* planet – so I want you to be able to share in the adventure of exploring it, and help to figure out how it works. The computer that we’d buy would enable us to send live video back to your classroom from the cameras on our underwater vehicle (via the satellite internet link that we already have between our ship and the land). And it would allow you to chat live with us, so we could explore the ocean floor together.

      So your class could help to decide whether we should check out the underwater hill that we can see behind us on our sonar, to find out what lives there, or go down the underwater canyon ahead. And if you find new species of deep-sea creatures, then you get to help name them.

      Science is an adventure, whether you follow it as a career, or study it just a bit further for interest. I hope that being able to take part in actually exploring the unknown frontier of the ocean floor from your classroom would help remind students that science isn’t always about lab coats, test tubes, and learning answers for exams. It’s about discovering new things in the world around you, and being the first people to see something new for the first time – and that can be very exciting.

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      Louise Dash answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      I’d really like to set up a website to introduce quantum physics to primary school kids! I think this would be fun because it’s a part of science that goes against what we think of as “common sense”, but smaller children haven’t really developed that sense yet and so may be more receptive to the rather strange concepts involved. Hopefully it would be fun for them, I’ve been testing a few ideas out on my 5 year old who loves playing computer games! 😀

      The £500 would cover the cost of registering a domain and server space, and I’d also need a bit of help in programming some cool graphics!

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