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Asked by kerryp13 to Debbie, Glyn, Jon, Kat, Nicola on 12 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by u11stephensc, jimmy69.
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Jonathan Stone answered on 12 Mar 2013:
The fund would be brilliant for any of us to win. As scientists, we often have cool ideas that are a little bit different to what people have done before, but it is difficult to find extra money to make them a reality. My work is about finding new ways to communicate the dangers of volcanoes, so the fund would enable me to do something a bit different to what has been done before, and hopefully inspire people to learn more and be safer. My work involves a lot of contribution from other people who aren’t scientists like me, so winning something like this would really be a credit to their hard work. So if I won…we would get a remote controlled UAV quadcopter…which would be able to zoom up and down valleys near volcanoes, and allow people to see how close they live to where the volcanic hazards go. I would also bring the quadcopter to schools in England and let the students fly it – as this kind of technology is the future!
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Glyn Barrett answered on 12 Mar 2013:
It wouldn’t really affect my work in the lab.
I would really like to start an education program connecting school-goers, teenagers and young adults with the food that they eat. It is often difficult to remember that when you go to a supermarket all the vegetables you see either in the fresh counter or the frozen stores or the meat which is under plastic wrap at the butcher counter was growing in the soil or in a farmyard once.This is why big food companies managed to lie to all their customers all this time about horse meat being in the beef products. This is only one example and there are loads more.
If you havent seen the movie Food Inc. you should. Here is a clip to the movie if you’re allowed to watch it.I would really like to fund an education program which stops this! By teaching people you can change things.
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Nicola Fletcher answered on 12 Mar 2013:
I am so glad that i’m a scientist and I know that this is because I had a brilliant teacher who inspired me. I’d like to use the money so that science teachers can come and spend a little bit of their time working with me in the lab. This will benefit me because they will be able to do some experiments for me, it will benefit them because hopefully they will learn some new science and be inspired to teach students great science (not that they don’t anyway!). I think it’s a great way for science teachers and scientists to work together that benefits everyone.
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Kathryn McMahon answered on 12 Mar 2013:
It would make my work more enjoyable! I spend a lot of time sat on my own in the dark (on my lovely microscope), so I really like going out and talking to people about science! The fund would help me to buy equipment so I could more easily arrange visits to school. Talking to students, helps me to remember why I do what I do, and why I enjoy it so much.
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Debbie Crockard answered on 12 Mar 2013:
The charity I work for is still relatively small and our education work is mainly based on people (like me) who are really interested in education and them fitting it around the work they do already.
The money would help us set up some pilot projects to show how important education is and to role out some of the ideas we have to the local area. It would mean we had some money to make the stuff we do much more interesting for the people we are talking to!
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