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Asked by italianmaster to MarkF, Mark, Michael, Panos, Sarah on 18 Jun 2010 in Categories: Money.
Question: what wold you do with the money. would you use it to expand your work, or improve the work work that you are doing now. :)
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Sarah Burl answered on 17 Jun 2010:
We are only allowed to use the money for science communication. See my profile for the answer to this question!
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Mark Fogg answered on 17 Jun 2010:
We have to use the money for communicating science to the general public.
My idea is to use the money to help smaller primary schools with limited resources, probably the Year 6 class, to have a try at doing a simple science experiment they otherwise may not be able to do. The money would go towards funding ‘resource boxes’ containing all the basic equipment needed to carry out a simple science experiment. A small group of schools could borrow the boxes and perform the experiment, pooling their results online where everyone involved could access and analyse them i.e. more data improves accuracy. I would hope to persuade other scientists at my university to volunteer to help with the experiments in the schools, and communicate with the children about what it’s like to be a scientist.
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Mark Travis answered on 17 Jun 2010:
No, I would use it to help fund an event to get local underpriveleged school kids to our University so they can experience first-hand what scientific research is and hopefully encorage them to keep studying science in the future.
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Panos Soultanas answered on 18 Jun 2010:
The money has to go to the promotion of science. That’s the rule of the competition. I will give it to 2 of my students to attend a scientific conference in Sheffield this coming September.
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Michael Loughlin answered on 18 Jun 2010:
well i’d expand my work in outreach so more students could see how research is done over a longer period
and expand the opportunities for undergrads to learn about research by going to a conference
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