• Question: If you a planning on using the money for schools in the local area. Where is the local area you plan on investing the money?

    Asked by to Nat, Nate, Roberto, Sam, Sarah on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Nate Bastian

      Nate Bastian answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      I’d use the money to fund a project that sends scientists to local primary schools to engage young children in science. This would be in the north-east, predominantly around Liverpool.

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      Sarah Casewell answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      I live and work in Leicester. I plan to use the money so that local schools can come and use our observatory and telescopes and camp out in tents overnight.
      It may also involve pizza or a barbecue!

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      Natasha Stephen answered on 20 Jun 2014:

      I would like to use the money to start a programme that would allow science to go into schools but I don’t want it to be focused in just one area! I was lucky in that I grew up in London so had LOADS of opportunities to see Science in action but I know that in some other areas of the country it isn’t so easy for teachers to arrange things.

      That is why if I won, the programme would travel to different regions as much as we could to try and cover some of those areas that don’t get to see everything so easily, whether that is the south coast of England, the northern-most part of Scotland or anywhere in between!

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      Roberto Trotta answered on 24 Jun 2014:

      My idea is to use the money to set up a national competition for schools to submit “research proposal” for dark matter. The winning school then will get a day in residence at Imperial College. I want to roll this out across the entire UK, so anybody can take part, not just schools in a specific area.

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