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!
We say some very bad words. Then we try to figure out what went wrong so that we don’t do it again! Sometimes, there’s no good reason for it and you just have to start over and be more careful next time. I’ve had experiments that I was working on for weeks fail completely. I used to joke that I was wearing the wrong colour underwear….because there was no other explanation. Some days you just have to give up and go home. Or go for a long walk. 🙂
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Sometimes yes. But we need to sit down and try and figure out whether it going wrong tells us something we didn’t expect. It is possible that what we’re testing is actually wrong, and things work another way. So instead of doing something a million times to TRY and get the answer we want, we need to sit down and think whether the hypothesis we’ve been testing is itself incorrect.
Then there are days when nothing works! And you go have ice cream/ chocolate. Those days have their own appeal 😉
(Errm…) Hope that helps
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It really just depends! Sometimes, you learn more from the things that don’t work than the things that do!
Sometimes its the experiments where you say “wow. that’s not what i thought would happen” where you make the real discoveries!
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Sometimes I walk away for a bit. To take a deep breathe and calm down. Some of my experiments are 3 months of work and if something goes wrong at the last minute it can be a disappointing. Its part of science though. Chin up, carry on. Also, when it works it feels pretty darn fantastic.
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