• Question: what would you do with the money you win

    Asked by ashdownfranks to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 14 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by hepworthandsimmons, scientistchick, arusa, kavfaulkner, ellenbmth, kingcurtis.
    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      The current plan is to buy a telescope that local schools can borrow to run their own astronomy clubs.

    • Photo: Sam Vinko

      Sam Vinko answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I thought it would be useful to help fund/co-fund trips to visit laser labs in Oxfordshire, as there are several quite spectacular ones around the University here and at Research Laboratories.

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      Ben Smart answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Check out my profile kids, the answers are all there 😉

      In short, I’d set up a website so that schools could contact scientists at CERN. Lots of scientists at CERN would like to share their work with the public and get people interested in science, and this website would let them do that.

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      Mario Campanelli answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I am writing a book about particle physics and Cern, and I would use part of the money to support and help diffuse it. Also I would like to create an interactive platform (a web site, but also smartphone apps, for instance), about the history of science, the way we got to the present understanding of physics and fundamental laws. I see it as a sort of game, with historical as well as conceptual paths.

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      I want to support the Sixty Symbold project we have at Nottingham
      http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
      where scientist make YouTube videos about what they do. Have a look, it’s great!

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