• Question: what age did you start getting interested in science?

    Asked by clover16 to Hazel, Ellen, Elliot, Rupesh, Thomas on 14 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by cookiedoughoreo554.
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      Hazel Garvie-Cook answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      I was around 15 when I started getting interested in science. I realised that I enjoyed subjects like maths and physics more than arts subjects, so I took science-y subjects for A-level and went on from there.

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      Thomas Biggans answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      Like Hazel I started getting really interested in science around 14/15 when I could understand enough of it to know some cool things. I didn’t decide I was going to study it until I was 16 though and didn’t decide on a career in science until I was 19.

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      Elliot Jokl answered on 21 Jun 2016:

      I was pretty young! My mum tells me I wanted to be a scientist since I was 8. My dad is very interested in science, and was a science teacher for a short while when I was growing up, but he changed jobs. So my parents were good at supporting my enthusiasm with things like Horrible Science books which are very fun.

      I also had some really good teachers at school. It was probably during my GCSEs that I settled on Biology as my favourite subject.

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