• Question: How long have you had an interest in science

    Asked by mercedes03 to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by rhiannehepworthx.
    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I’ve been interested in science since I was in primary school (I just didn’t know it!).

      I’ve always been interested in how to make things grow better – breeding pets- finding out how things work… all of this really involves a scientific approach.

      Do you like science?

    • Photo: Joanna Buckley

      Joanna Buckley answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hi Mercedes! Good chatting to you eariler!

      I was interested since I was 7. Have you seen that awful pic of me on my profile page? But it was only since I was 17/18 that I knew that science was for me.

      Before that I wanted to be racing driver. I still do it truth me told 🙂

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      Mark Lancaster answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      A long time – since I was about 11 or 12 and started studying chemistry and realising there were patterns in everything around us and that most (seemingly complex) things could be explained by simple ideas such as symmetry

    • Photo: Tim Craggs

      Tim Craggs answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      My Dad is a chemistry teacher and he got me interested in science pretty much as soon as I could talk! We use to grow crystals at home, and grind up leaves and do chromatography on them, and also find out all the different colours in ink (that is a cool experiment).

      Then when I was a bit older I got a chemistry set, but I only knew I wanted to be a scientist right at the end of my degree when I was 22. So it was a long process!

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