• Question: How would you improve the younger generations interest in physics?

    Asked by 464prtb42 to Oliver, Michele, Jackie on 19 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      At the minute I have been running after school science clubs in schools and youth clubs for kids and their parents to come along and do some experiments and make and build cool stuff 🙂 I think its really important that the parents get involved and join in too as this helps encourage the kids and also gives the parents some support in teaching their children science 🙂 If I was to win and get my Lego robots I would start up coding classes for young people around where I live because I know this is something which isn’t done in local schools.

    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 20 Mar 2015:

      I think the key point is that people should know that anyone can do science! It has a reputation for being scary and difficult, but I hope that over the last couple of weeks all us scientists have shown that we’re just ordinary people, doing an unusual job.

      If I win then I’ll be spending the money on a Lego version of an experiment called the ‘Watt balance’ that lets you calculate the value of a number called Planck’s constant. I plan to take it to various science festivals, and to wherever will have me really! I want to set it up so that visitors to my experiment will be able to do it all for themselves, and hopefully discover that not only can they do science, but it can be fun too 😀

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