• Question: If you won how would the money help your recearch, how can you use it to develop better things for the futre generations

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 13 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Phillip Manning answered on 13 Jun 2014:

      If I won….I would not be allowed to use the money for my research 🙂

      However, I would use the money to help run events for schools on how science is changing our lives on a daily basis….hopefully inspiring a future generation of scientists.

      If such workshops only touched the mind of a single person and they became a scientist in the future, it would be money well spent.

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      anon answered on 14 Jun 2014:

      The one rule of winning is that you have to use the money to communicate science to other people.

      I’m a Rainbow leader and I like to run science sessions for children in schools and other youth organisations. I’d like to buy lots of equipment so that I can show more children that science is fantastic and exciting and interesting. Hopefully they will then become scientists of the future and will invent things that will change your life!

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      Lynne Thomas answered on 15 Jun 2014:

      To do research that really makes a difference to future generations requires quite a lot of money! I’m on a project that is worth 4 million pounds! That’s because it has to pay the wages of the people who are working on it and also pay for all of the things we need to do our experiments. We have five years to spend the money and to hopefully discover some new materials which could be useful as sensors, or as colour changing paint for your car. Or maybe we’ll discover some things that do things we haven’t imagined yet! That’s the exciting thing about science!

      So if I win, I’m going to get a demonstration made which uses marbles to demonstrate how crystals grow. I’d then use this as a hands on demonstration at science festivals and fairs like the Big Bang Fair and also to take into schools when I talk about my work.

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      Daren Fearon answered on 15 Jun 2014:

      We aren’t allowed to use the money for our personal research, it is supposed to be used for a science communication project.

      It is important to spread the word about how amazing science is and to encourage people to take an interest in it as it affects every aspect of their lives.

      Hopefully, we can inspire the next generation of young scientists who will shape the world and make it a better place for future generations. Ofcourse, they will also have a responsibility to inspire the next generation and so on.

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      Simon Redfern answered on 16 Jun 2014:

      I would use it to help inspire people like you to become excellent scientists – without more folk like you doing science the future will be grim!

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