• Question: What will you do with the money when you get it?

    Asked by alanah to Cathal, Ciara, Emma, Michael, Sive on 11 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Michael Nolan

      Michael Nolan answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      I need the tweed jacket with leather patches to be a real scientist (or is it leather with tweed patches) as I use the money to travel around schools getting the students interested in doing science….

    • Photo: Cathal Cummins

      Cathal Cummins answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      I’m going to buy some more equipment for my science busking show, “Physics in the Field”. I have been doing the same tricks for the last two years so I want to try some new things. I am thinking of getting some ferrofluid and some powerful magnets — check out this youtube video

    • Photo: Sive Finlay

      Sive Finlay answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Hi Alana,

      I want to give the money to our department’s Zoology museum. It’s a beautiful collection of weird and wonderful animals, each with their own quirky stories to tell like Prince Tom, our Indian elephant who led a very colourful life http://www.ecoevoblog.com/2013/06/24/prince-tom/. We also have rare examples of extinct species such as Ireland’s last Great Auk (a large, flightless bird which looked a bit like a penguin) and we even have some specimens which were collected during Captain Cook’s voyages of discovery to Australia.
      We open the museum to the public for guided tours and also invite school groups and TY work experience students to come and visit. I want to use the money to bring more visitors to the museum and also to create and publish a guide to the museum that includes the incredible stories behind our unique animal specimens.
      Sive

    • Photo: Emma Cahill

      Emma Cahill answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Hey Alanah,
      I have friends that run conservation projects in primary schools in Ireland, and I would like to join them to see could I do a similar thing but for Neuroscience. So the idea would be to see how they organise their own projects and try get on board with teachers to do a Neuroscience version.

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