• Question: How did you come intrested in science?

    Asked by 559dagg28 to Dawn on 7 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      In Primary 6 (year 6) I had a great teacher who gave the whole class different science projects – my groups’ was to build an electronically controlled moving crane from Meccano! I absolutely loved it and have been interested in science ever since. I had really great teachers in high school as well – my Chemistry teacher looked exactly like Einstein and happily blew holes in the ceiling!

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  • Photo: James

    James commented on :

    I was fascinated with K’nex and would build things all the time – cars, rollercoasters, ferris wheels… Then my dad taught me how to use some tools and I started making go-karts out of scrap wood to ride down the hill in my neighbourhood. After a few runs I started making brakes too. I
    I figured it would help to be good at science if I wanted to keep building things, so I just started studying hard and kinda found out that I enjoyed it too.

  • Photo: Sylvain

    Sylvain commented on :

    When I was 12 I think, I got into sailing, from there I started wondering about all things flowing so went on to study fluid dynamics at Uni, I still do some today…