• Question: What did you think of science when you first started learning about it? What got you interested in being a scientist?

    Asked by 228spea36 to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 7 Nov 2014.
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      Andrew McKinley answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      That is a really good question – I couldn’t honestly pinpoint what got me into science. I suppose that I thought that science provided answers, and as a child who doesn’t love a good Fact? I had loads of ‘Fact Books’ as a child and that probably got me into science.

      I thought science was really interesting, and the fact that it allowed me to reason how the world around me worked and – provided you have the proper evidence to support it, you can start to propose your own explanations no matter what age you are!

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      Matthew Camilleri answered on 7 Nov 2014:

      My first memories of science were in primary school, were we used to have a science lesson every month or so, and I used to look really forward to it as it would mean a lesson of fun packed activities.

      As I grew older I had the opportunity to have science as a subject at school, and although I loved it I still had no idea what it really was. The first couple of years I had done science at school we had watched a lot of videos, mainly from national geographic with regards to predators and prey, how your body works and some experiments.

      It was only when I started my GCSEs that I really understood the concept of science, the concept of asking questions and finding answers through facts.

      Science helped me see things from a different light, to question everything around me, and not to be satisfied by half baked answers. Sometimes I think that there was nothing that got me interested in science, it was just an innate thing that made me want to know more, to keep asking questions.

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      Francesca Palombo answered on 8 Nov 2014:

      I thought there is a lot of work to do! The aspect of discovery and new advances in knowledge/technology has always enthused me

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      Laura Schofield answered on 8 Nov 2014:

      I’ve always been interested in science but got so frustrated that we couldn’t do very many practicals in high school – it wasn’t my teachers fault, there just wasn’t any money to buy equipment! When I got to college though we had an amazing teacher that convinced me I should do chemistry at Uni. She made everything so easy and explained it all so well that everyone in our class got an A or B in the exam at the end of the year. Plus she let us do as many practicals as possible!

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