• Question: What inspired you to become a scientists?? and how long have you been intrested in science for ??

    Asked by troyboy2 to Jamie, Jodie, Kat, Mark, Niamh on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: . This question was also asked by woodcojr01, sophieawills, shannonlouise, fayewilliams, student14, vderguti.
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      Jamie Pringle answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Hello Troyboy2,

      I got interested in Science when I was around 10, wondering about why some rocks were present in NW Scotland, and not others in my home County of Norfolk. My mum also did an Open University Geology Degree around then which got me interested.

      I also had really good Science teachers which inspired me, which I am sure your are!

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      Katherine Davies answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hi

      I really enjoyed biology at secondary school, and thought it would be good to do a job that I enjoyed. I watched lots of nature and forensic documentaries when I was young, so have been interested in science for as long as I can remember.

      Kat

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      Niamh Nic Daeid answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      I have always bee interested in working out why or how things work. Science was the obvious choice for that. Also my mum is a botanist (studies plants) and my dad was a chemist so I had a lot of science around at home.

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      Mark Hill answered on 15 Mar 2011:

      Hello Troyboy,

      I have always had a keen interest in science, from year 7 onwards, and I hoped to become a doctor. However, for some reason, I cannot remember why, I became a police officer.

      I have always been interested in investigating crashes, so found my way onto Traffic. The science behind collisions is fascinating and links the dry and sometimes dull maths and physics at school, with the world around us. Now, the more I look in to what the causation factors of a collision are, the more that I find science, in many forms, can help me explain it, from vehicle speeds, injuries, reasons why people drive the way they do, why they don’t see motorcyclists sometimes, and other matters.
      Particularly the last factor – seeing, or not seeing other road users has led me to look at how the eye works, in relation to the brain. I now understand it to be, not a camera, but a data collection device, which the brain interprets according to what it expects to see in many instances e.g. schemas (or schemata). I am sure that our science teacher can explain this further. If not, then send me another question and I will try and explain in a simple way.

      So that is why I wanted to follow science – to make some sense of real world events.

      Thank you for your good question.

      Good luck in your science.

      Mark.

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      Jodie Dunnett answered on 17 Mar 2011:

      At school, I always enjoyed the science subjects and having fun, enthusiastic teachers helped! When I chose my A-Level subjects, sciences seemed the obvious choice as I enjoyed them and was good at them! I chose to do a degree in forensic science as I liked the way it included all of the sciences rather than me having to decide which one to pursue!

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