• Question: What would you spend your prize money on?

    Asked by anon-205627 to Gabriel, Russell, Kathryn, Jose Angel, Affelia, adeliegorce on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-205695.
    • Photo: Gabriel Gallardo

      Gabriel Gallardo answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I’d like to spend it on a teenager to come visit CERN.

      CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, is the center of cutting edge physics research. But when I was growing up, I didn’t know anything about it. It was only when I was in university that I got to come to CERN.

      I think if I had come when I was a teenager, I would have been pretty excited. It might have inspired me to pursue a career in physics much sooner.

      With that in mind, I’d like to set up a scholarship to help a secondary school student from my home city, Hong Kong, to come to CERN and see all the cool things that we do here.

    • Photo: Kathryn Boast

      Kathryn Boast answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I’d buy a livestreaming camera so that I could make and share live videos about science – I’d do experiments and interviews with scientists in real time. It would mean that anyone watching could ask questions as I’m doing it! It also means that anyone anywhere can join in and take part because it’s online đŸ’» And I would totally go visit all the other awesome scientists in this zone (if they’ll have me) and interview them and show you round their experiments and labs and offices!

    • Photo: Russell Arnott

      Russell Arnott answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I wrote a show called “Sea Soup – why you should care about plankton” which I’ve given at schools and music festivals. I gave it as part of the Cheltenham Science Festival Xmas lectures and it went down well with the schools that came to that.
      I want to use the prize money to take this talk into as many schools as possible particularly schools in disadvantaged areas.

    • Photo: Adelie Gorce

      Adelie Gorce answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      If I win the prize money, I would use it to organise in the UK an event similar to something I took part in in France: a Space Bus! It is a bus that carries scientists with a lot of fun activities for children to learn about the stars, the planets and the Universe and that stops on beaches and in parks in the summer to show you all of this. Then you get to discover many exciting things while on holidays!

    • Photo: Jose Angel Martinez-Gonzalez

      Jose Angel Martinez-Gonzalez answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      If I win the prize money I would like to dedicate it to a project of dissemination of science in which I have participated for two years.

      This project is called The Game of Brainy Roles and is a game that taking the role of a great scientist allows students to know how to work in a research team, as is our work day by day, how a research project is designed and finally how it is communicated to other researchers.

      I would use that money to be able to carry out the activities associated with in, in various educational centers in the United Kingdom, as well as to send the teaching material to as many schools as possible.

    • Photo: Affelia Wibisono

      Affelia Wibisono answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      I would use it to buy all sorts of equipment and props for a science show about the northern and southern lights. Maybe I could present it at your school?

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