• Question: What do you think of this competition?

    Asked by anon-193440 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I think this competition is really cool! I wish they had something like this when I was at school. I think the closest I had got to speaking to a scientist when I was younger was either my science teachers or my doctor! I do quite a bit of volunteering with careers events and school engagement activities with my work, so was really excited when I heard I was successful in taking part in this fantastic competition! All the questions remind me of why I fell in love with science and my job!

    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I am loving it. The live chats are frantic, fabulous fun. I am struggling to write and think fast enough. The questions being asked are brilliant and so varied. It is a little scary but a very rewarding.
      I have given talks to schools about my work which is always an amazing experience but there I know what I am going to say and the questions are generally based on things I know about and that I am prepared for. In this “competition” the questions can be on anything and I have found myself learning loads of new facts. Also as it is all online I have no idea if the students think my answers are any good!
      It is great to see all the cool stuff the other scientists are doing as well, the job title scientist covers so many different professions and careers.

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      It’s brilliant! I wasn’t sure what to expect when I signed up for it, but the whole experience has been really exciting so far. I do some work talking about science with school students but it’s always been face to face, so not that many students can get involved – having something like this online is great because it means that I get to speak to students from schools I would never be able to go to in person.
      I’m learning a lot too – the chats are so fast and some of the questions can be super random, so I’m finding that I’m doing research to try and find out answers to things I don’t know. Someone asked the other day how many bones are in the human body so I did some reading and found that when we’re babies we usually have about 270, but by the time we’re adults some of those bones have fused together to make the body stronger, meaning adult humans usually have about 206 – isn’t that crazy?! I’m excited to see what I’m asked in the rest of the chats, I bet I learn lots more cool facts from this competition over the next week or so.

    • Photo: Carl Heron

      Carl Heron answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      It’s fun. When do the bush tucker trials start?

      Seriously, I am enjoying it and I am interested in the kinds of questions that we are being asked.

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