what made you want to sign up to do this?

Question: what made you want to sign up to do this?

Asked by ben10 to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: About.
- Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  ben,
  
  Wanted to find out what’s important for young people and also to promote science which I think is a very imortant thing to do.
- Michael Loughlin answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  always loved teaching really like the outreach i do as school studnets ask more intersting questions
  as you have all shown
- Mark Fogg answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  I wanted to help school students understand what scientists do and how we do it.
- Sarah Burl answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  I really enjoy interacting with school children and teaching and i thought I could contribute to the local African community by using the money to create an Open Day for the mothers and children involved in our studies.I also wished someone had talked to me about science and what scientists did and I may have made up my mind what I wanted to do earlier.
- Mark Travis answered on 18 Jun 2010:
  
  That is a very good question! It was a long time ago so I can’t remember….. but seriously, it is basically to increase people’s understanding and interest in science. Science generally is not seen as being at all cool, or a good thing to do- scientists are often portrayed as geeks, who are a bit weird. If doing this we can let people know this is not the case (most of the time!) then that is definitely a good thing!

Question: what made you want to sign up to do this?

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