• Question: why do you think you should win?

    Asked by rudexboiixdec to Alan, Caspar, Diana, Murray, Sarah on 16 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by cridland1, alana13.
    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      I don’t think I should win. I just wanted to take part in this because I thought it would be a cool thing to do. I think the students should just vote for whoever they think, you know, whoever answered their questions well, or who you think will do something good with the prize money.

      I can tell you that I already do a lot of science communication and go to schools and science festivals to run activities and workshops. And I have already made a workshop about Cancer Research and I have been doing at science festivals this year. If I won, I know exactly what I would do with the money. I would spend it on materials for my workshop and then I would be able to run it in a lot more schools.

    • Photo: Caspar Addyman

      Caspar Addyman answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Because no one has ever built a baby simulator before – It would be the world’s first

    • Photo: Alan Winfield

      Alan Winfield answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Well I think we should all win! I think we’re all doing great work in Team Chlorine. (Hmm – ‘team chlorine’ – that’s doesn’t really work does it?)

      As I said in my profile, I’ve become interested recently in something called community robotics. This means making simple low-cost robot gadgets that ordinary people can use to make their lives better. Later this year I will have some visitors from America, from the Create Lab (http://createlab.ri.cmu.edu/) in Pittsburgh, who have done some amazing community robotics projects and if I were to win I’m a Scientist I would use the money to try out some of their ideas here in Bristol – while at the same time putting it all on the web so everyone can see the project as it unfolds and make use of it’s technology – I’m really passionate about combining research with science communication so they always go together.

      But, I’m perfectly happy not to win. For me, the main reason for taking part in I’m a Scientist is because I love communicating science and technology. I think it’s really important that you and other students should be able to find out what scientists and engineers do, and why they’re doing it. (Science really needs openness – many of the problems and mistrust with science come about because of secrecy.) I think science and engineering is incredibly important and exciting, and I want to persuade more young people to get involved.

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