Question: If you didn't win the prize what would be your other options to allow children to come to the science festival for free?

Natalie Lamb answered on 5 Mar 2019:

Last year I helped organise a week-long science festival in my town with a group of other volunteers. The festival had a lot of events for kids aged 4-11. It was loads of fun! Here are some of the events we planned: Science Magic (a magician who did magic tricks based on science and then told the kids how he did the tricks), Fireworks – Real Science or Just Bangs (a show about the science behind how fireworks explode, with lots of bangs) and Zoolab (mini-beasts were brought into class and kids were shown the differences in behaviour and habitat and told how to look after them). Without the prize money I would still plan these events again because I think it’s really important. Last year we asked Tesco for some money (in the shop they had a plastic box that shoppers could put a token it to decide what charity Tesco donates to). I would do this again.

If I won the £500 prize money from I’m A Scientist I would use it to run the week long science festival again but have even more events on that would be free for school kids to go to. I would also like to have more events for people over age 11.