• Question: Have you ever worked in a primary or secondary school and if you have did you like it and would you do it again

    Asked by Eliotg123 to Sudhin, Sergio, Katie, Frances, Diarmuid, Aoife on 15 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Aoife Campbell

      Aoife Campbell answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I have yes. My group are part of cell explorers, we go around to different schools teaching common lab techniques like DNA extraction

    • Photo: Katie Fala

      Katie Fala answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      No I haven’t, although I’ve done some activities and workshops with students in secondary schools through my research institute. Talking to students during I’m A Scientist, I’ve been struck by how few students have been able to get a chance to use microscopes. As I study bacteria, these are one of my favourite things because it’s easy to overlook bacteria when we can’t see them due to their tiny size! If I win the money, my plan is to buy lots of Foldscopes (portable paper microscopes) and design an activity to visit lots of schools to talk a bit about the bacteria I study and work with students to sample different things to try to see bacteria for themselves.

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