I’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Organs Zone. It has scientists studying health and disease in various parts of our bodies. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
Fate, mostly. 🙂 I applied for a summer program for young writers. However, when I wrote my essay to apply for entrance (on who in history I would most like to invite to dinner), I talked about how cool it would be to talk to the guy that first discovered that we have blood in our veins and not air (people thought that air ran through our veins for a really long time!). The committee decided that I would be better placed in the science program. I was unsure, but I thought I’d rather go and do science than not do anything at all, so I went and spend four weeks at a big university, doing all sorts of cool science. I was hooked from that day forward. I love all science. I love the way the world and universe work. I love finding out new things. And the rest was history….
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I got interested in science because i had an amazing teacher in year 8 and 9 science! He always made science actually fun and exciting and we were always outside testing experiments off the balcony!
I wanted to be a chef when i was in school, also, because I absolutely love to cook. Cooking is a bit part of life in my family! I am actually thinking about auditioning for the next series of Masterchef!!
Science and cooking are a lot alike. Both often require you to be creative, and sometimes to follow a procedure or recipe. I think it’s the similarities that draw me to both!
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I started out wanting to be a doctor. My best classes in school were the sciences and maths.
I found out that the doctors get all the credit from things that they don’t really do, such as make the medicines that they prescribe. The “real work” is done by the scientists, undertaking research to find and make new medicines.
Also kind of fell into it myself, like the others have said 🙂
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Hi Patrick,
I love science and have been lucky to explore this further by working in the field of biomedical research- but I don’t think I decided to become a scientist.
It’s been a combination of influences from my schooling, interests and hobbies that helped steer me towards this path. I guess the biggest influence has been just being curious about the world around me and wanting to know about how things work. I’ve been lucky to have the opportunity to study at university and currently work as a scientist but the great thing about science is that it applies to every aspect of life and you can be a scientist in everything and anything you do. As Hannah mentioned- you can apply scientific principles to any of your passions ie. cooking (like Heston Blumenthal!), sport, art, music, economics (awesome area for studying human behaviour!), etc
Find what it is you’re passionate about and apply scientific principles to it, ie. problem solving, observations, hypothesis testing asking questions and just trying!
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Like Hannah I had a really great science teacher in highschool. He got us to write science poetry (my book was called “Ecburt the Electron”), learn about projectile motion by throwing things into a bin and clear the room of desks so we could form a real life electron circuit. It was fun learning from someone who was so creative and passionate.
I have always been interested in who things work. As a kid I used to dissect the fish that my dad caught on holidays. I would cut open their eyes and look inside their stomachs to see what they had been eating! Now I work on the really complicated problem of why our brains don’t work properly all the time. I am never bored!
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