• Question: do you think this competition is a good way of educating people about different types of sciences?

    Asked by clairemcginn to Adam, Chris, Eleanor, Jessamyn, Sinead on 11 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Adam Murphy

      Adam Murphy answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Hey Claire,

      I think it’s a brilliant way to do it! For a few reasons:

      One, I’m having an absolute blast, and it’s only the first day!

      It’s also great to be able to get answers about the things you’re really curious about. Hopefully, what we’ll do, is answer some questions and inspire more, leaving you wanting to go off and look up more answers…which will lead to more questions.

      And hopefully you get to see that the 5 of us all really love science. I know I couldn’t see myself doing anything other than physics! And I want everyone to see where that passion comes from!

      Thanks for your question! Hope you’ll have more of them soon!

    • Photo: Sinead Cullen

      Sinead Cullen answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Hi Claire,
      I think this competition is an amazing way of educating people about all the different types of science. There are 20 scientists taking part from all different parts of science and you guys get to ask whatever you want to know about which is so cool! And I hope we are answering all your questions good enough for you guys!

    • Photo: Eleanor Holmes

      Eleanor Holmes answered on 13 Nov 2013:

      Absolutely!

      You guys get to ask any questions you want. We get to think about things we might never have thought about. I get to sneakily read all the other answers and sometimes learn things I didn’t know!

      And best of all, when it’s all over we’ll all be super excited about science and hopefully you guys will look up some of the things we talked about and find out even more.

      The only thing I would add to this experience is the ability to draw quick diagrams in these comments sections. Sometimes a good picture is worth a thousand words.

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