• Question: what would you do with the prize money?

    Asked by baggins to Alexandra, Dean, Jess, Luisa, Sian on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by elz4eva, tbonesteak, kierakieraxd, coco.
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      Sian Foch-Gatrell answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      My colleague and I plan to talk to schools about the importance of biofuels

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      Luisa Ostertag answered on 16 Jun 2010:

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      Give it to Aberdonian 6th grade students so they can do more exciting science projects.

      6th grade science students in Scotland have to do a science project for a few weeks and write a report about it, which will be marked and contribute to their final mark. The schools normally have a repertoir of ’standard experiments’ that students can do. These are mostly quite boring but they don’t need a lot of equipment and are cheap. Students are also encouraged to come up with ideas of their own but often the equipment needed to realise those ideas is not available to the schools. So I would like to encourage students from next year’s 6th grade (because the experiments run between October and April of the following year) to think up cool projects and then support the 5 best ones with 100 Pounds each so they can buy the equipment needed for their experiments.

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      Alexandra Kamins answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Check out my profile–it’s there.

      Basically, I want to make sure that students get to EXPERIENCE science, not just memorize it. I want to expand the Cambridge program CHaOS that brings awesome experiments and science activities to schools all around the UK. Science is so much cooler when you get to explode things or make gooey messes and actually see how it works!!

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      Dean Whittaker answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      I’d try and arrange for some schools to go visit Rutherford Appleton Labs – where they test spacecraft and hold two world records. It’s pretty impressive science and pretty impressive equipment.

    • Photo: Jessica Housden

      Jessica Housden answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Well, I’ve got some ideas for short films showing different experiments and also showing some of the satellites we are building at the moment. So, I’d like to make some of those and put them online; I would need to hire a decent camera for a day or two for this. Also, science busking in public places with some experiments. Finally; I’ve been working with some children in Yr 6 who have come up with some amazing space station ideas and I would like to help them to get to the national Space Centre in Leicester. Do you have any better ideas though – after all the whole point of it is for us to spend the money doing something worthwhile for science outreach. Please let me know!

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