• Question: what will you do with the prize money?

    Asked by louistaylor1 to Emma, Jen, Joseph, Michael, Mona on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by jackgb, imsoclever, costb001, kanedale, liam1997, morganhill.
    • Photo: Michael Taggart

      Michael Taggart answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I’d visit local schools showing a movie that describes our research, through interviews with the people who do the day-to-day experiments in the laboratory, to encourage future participation in science.

    • Photo: Jen Gupta

      Jen Gupta answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I would like to visit all of the schools taking part in this zone so that we could meet in person and you could ask me lots more questions! I would try to bring some telescopes and physics tricks that I could show you. I make podcasts and for a while I have wanted to make a series of podcasts that take the science that you guys learn at school and relate it to things in astronomy research. This would hopefully make science at school more interesting because I remember that even though I love science, I still found it boring at school sometimes! The problem is that I don’t know things like what is on the syllabus or whether you would want audio or video podcasts so I would love help from all of you to decide how to make the podcasts and then to help me make them! I think this would be a really fun way to spend the prize money. Some of the money would be spent travelling to your schools and some on buying new equipment to use.

      Any leftover money I would donate to an organisation called Astronomers without Borders so that they could continue to bring astronomy to people who wouldn’t normally be able to go to astronomy talks or look at the night sky through telescopes.

    • Photo: Emma Bennett

      Emma Bennett answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I’d like to buy some equipment for a school so they are able to look at plant growth and make make time lapse videos instead of having to stare at the plants all day and write down what’s happening. This way they can see what effect growing things in different environments has and it makes it so much more exciting to watch.

    • Photo: Mona Gharaie

      Mona Gharaie answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Some portion of money would be spent on research and the rest will be allocated to visit some schools and invite students to come and visit the university and learn about the research activities.

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