• Question: What age did u start to develop a passion for science

    Asked by anon-39916 on 4 Nov 2022.
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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 4 Nov 2022:

      This one would be a good question for my parents… If I remember right, they bought me an electronics experimentation kit as a Christmas gift when I was about 10 years old. Not sure if this counts already as science? It definitely was already before we started to have physics in school (around the age of 12). I suppose maths could have been my first love before I lost my heart to physics.

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      Anna Desmond answered on 5 Nov 2022:

      I was always curious as a kid about how things worked and why. I was into doing puzzles, trying to fix things or figure things out but I didn’t start to develop a passion for science until my 5th year biology class in secondary school so I was around 16 years old. I had a great teacher who spent so much time and effort in trying to encourage us to our best but also to love science as much as she did.

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      Lyndsey Moore answered on 7 Nov 2022:

      I was probably around 12 or 13 years old. I was always very curious when I was younger and I liked having the answers to my questions. I was always bothering my parents with questions like “Why is the sky blue?” or “How does a plane fly?”. My science teachers were very enthusiastic about science and really helped encourage me to pursue science and research.

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    Vanessa commented on :

    It was always through adventure story books like the Clive Cussler series of his lead marine engineer Dirk Pitt. My dad also used to bring the National Geographic magazines home and I’d get lost in the pages. It was always about the excitement of discovering something new. This would’ve been when I was about the age of 12-15.