• Question: will £500 even get you anywhere, do you think they should give you more money for all the work you do?

    Asked by shmexiibob to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by bartolomew101, dylan699.
    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I am already paid for doing the work I do on lightning – if I win, the extra £500 would be to help me tell more people about it.

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Ha! I think £500 is pretty generous. Coming to talk to schools won’t cost anything other than petrol/train tickets so I should be able to get to a lot of schools for that. Having a £500 prize just encourages us to think creatively about what we ant to do with it and having a competition add an extra bit of excitement to taking part in “I’m a scientist”

    • Photo: Sarah Cook

      Sarah Cook answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      £500 can go a long way as for my project we’re reliant on fundraising so every penny does help!

    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      My salary amounts to about 50p per working minute – if I spend 1,000 minutes doing this then £500 is quite fair.
      There really is a lot of use that can be made with small amounts of money. E.g. I could use it to take a one or two day course in the latest web programming tech, which then means I can do much nicer looking interactive web sites, which means much better science dissemination.Or I could buy a fairly sophisticated programmable robot that I could take to schools, and use it to help get them interested in computing. Or I could give it to Sarah if she told me it might make a real difference in getting her community composting scheme off the ground.

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I think I get paid fairly for the work I do, but the £500 prize money will be useful because it will help us to develop projects to engage with schools/colleges that we might not otherwise be able to pay for!

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