• Question: Why should YOU win the prize?

    Asked by to Aled, Ellie, Fiona, Kev, Willem on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Willem Heijltjes

      Willem Heijltjes answered on 13 Mar 2014:


      Hi Riley! Because I have GIFs on my profile page 😉

      It’s a good question! But someone has beat you to it – a similar question was asked already, and the answers are here:

      /ceriumm14-zone/2014/03/10/why-should-i-vote-for-you/

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      Aled Roberts answered on 17 Mar 2014:


      Check the link and then vote for me! hehe!

    • Photo: Kevin Arbuckle

      Kevin Arbuckle answered on 17 Mar 2014:


      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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