• Question: if u win the money would you spend it on your projects. if not what would you spend it on .

    Asked by smat1875 to Duncan, Kiran, Paul, Sarah on 17 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Duncan Murdock

      Duncan Murdock answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I would spend it on resources for teaching rocks and fossils in schools. It’s really hard for schools to get access to a good range of exciting rocks and fossils, so I would try to include lots of things that student’s probably won’t have seen before. As well as resources for activities, and some of the equipment you need to examine the fossils properly.

    • Photo: Paul Stevenson

      Paul Stevenson answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      According to the rules, we have to use it to communicate our work. I have quite a few plans for doing this – one is that I already go to schools to talk about nuclear physics, and what it is like to be a scientist, but I just talk about it. With the money I could buy some demonstrations to actually show what it all means. For instance, a lot of nuclear physics applications are to do with radioactivity, which people think is dangerous. It certainly can be, but there are a lot of positive applications of radiation. It is responsible for the way smoke detectors work, it is used in cancer therapy, and it is actually found all around us (concrete is pretty radioactive). With some demonstrations, I can show all of this and make my talk hopefully more interesting and understandable. I’m also thinking about writing an iPhone app to explore lots of stuff about nuclear physics!

    • Photo: Kiran Meekings

      Kiran Meekings answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      If I won the money, I want you students decide how I should spend it. I would either fly to a big cancer conference in america to try and find new drugs or I would give it to a charity called Breakthrough Breast Cancer who do really good early-stage research into very new drugs. Hopefully they could come up with a new drug that I could help make sure gets to the right patients. Which do you think I should do?

    • Photo: Sarah Mount

      Sarah Mount answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      We aren’t really allowed to spend the money on our own work! I’d use the money to go an visit a school or two, probably with some artist colleagues and do some hands-on work with the students about computer science. I wouldn’t want to do something that you already do in ICT classes, but I’d like you guys to tell me what sort of things you would like to know more about. We could do some electronics and see how computers are built, or make a new game or all sorts of other things. What do you think would be fun?

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