Very helpfully, the link Willem posted should hopefully address your question. If I win I want to take the experience that you’ve (hopefully) enjoyed and take it into classrooms in the Merseyside area (where I work). Merseyside is a relatively deprived area and there are many school pupils here who won’t think they have a chance of doing science or won’t even know what it involves and what scientist’s are like. In fact I came from a similar background myself, in a relatively science-free environment where none of my friends and classmates knew any scientists and only a handful (at best) of my year went to university. Of those, only one other except me (as far as I know) have gone on to become a scientist, and very few from other years groups at my school did either. I understand how difficult it can be in those kind of areas to get pupils to see what science is and how they can get involved, so I want to help potential future scientists from Merseyside see that they can indeed go down that path.
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