• Question: what would you do if you didnt get the prize money

    Asked by mollyillingworth to Diana, Alan, Caspar, Murray, Sarah on 24 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by clarissa88.
    • Photo: Alan Winfield

      Alan Winfield answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Well Molly if I’m honest I wouldn’t be that upset. I didn’t enter I’m A Scientist to win the prize money – I entered because I’m passionate about communicating how brilliant, interesting and important science and engineering is. And I’m getting to do that even if I don’t win 🙂

    • Photo: Caspar Addyman

      Caspar Addyman answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      I will carry on with the rest of my work.. or I might go and ask these people if they might help me make a baby simulator

      http://guerillascience.co.uk/

    • Photo: Murray Collins

      Murray Collins answered on 22 Mar 2011:

      Cry and cry Molly. Seriously though, I would carry on doing my work, and would do a lot more writing about what I do and find in the rainforest, instead of the filming. That way at least I could still be relating to people what I’m doing.

    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 24 Mar 2011:

      Well the expensive part of my workshop is the UV blacklight box that the students use to test the fluorescence of their samples, however, I have 2 of those that I can borrow from my lab so that is free.

      The other materials I use are UV reactive beads which cost £12.00 for 500 beads, some pipettes (£10.00 for 500), some tubes (£25.00 for 1000) and the colourings and dyes (about £1 per dye). As you can see these materials are quite cheap so I pay for them myself at the moment. Things like printing colour posters and leaflets and workbooks to give to the students can be expensive though, but I like giving students something they can take home with them, so they they don’t forget about what they have learned and also so they can show their families about cancer research.

      I don’t charge the schools or science festivals a fee for running the workshop which limits how many I can do, but I believe these things should be free to schools. With the £500 prize money, I could visit a lot more schools and run my workshop. I think it only costs about £10 for the materials for each workshop so with £500 I could run it in 50 schools!!

      If I don’t win I will continue to run my workshop in a couple of schools near me in Edinburgh, so it won’t be the end of the world! And I may be able to find other ways to fund my workshop too. 🙂

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