• Question: Why should I vote for you instead of the others? How will the money benefit or the invention stand out from the other competitors? Thanks Peace.

    Asked by Peace Buraimo to Dawn, James, Sarah, Sylvain, Tomas, Vaanu on 7 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Dawn Gillies

      Dawn Gillies answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I would love to spend the money on electronic LEGO to show people that they can be engineers too! This would also be great because anyone could have a world-changing idea, and this would be a brilliant way for people to be creative and maybe think of something new.

      I would really like to take it to somewhere like the Highlands of Scotland – I grew up there and there aren’t many science activities there and it’s a bit far for people to travel to a science museum (the nearest one in over 5 hours away for some people!) so it would be great to let people who might not see much science have a chance to have a go too 🙂

    • Photo: Sarah Hampson

      Sarah Hampson answered on 7 Nov 2016:

      I want to use the £500 to spend on a 3D printer to give to a school, to let students present and future have the chance to learn 3D printing

      3D printers don’t just let you develop engineering skills- you can use them to make artwork, in maths to print geometric shapes, in chemistry to make molecules- you can do all sorts of things with them!

      And the 3D printing industry is growing & growing (it’s now over $5 billion big), and more & more jobs are being created in it, so maybe some of the students will one day go on to work in 3D printing themselves

    • Photo: Sylvain Jamais

      Sylvain Jamais answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      I’d love to give my local school some STEM kits. I really like K’nEx (http://www.knex.co.uk/knex-education/) but haven’t quite got my mind made up as to what the prize would exactly buy.

    • Photo: Vaanathi Sundaresan

      Vaanathi Sundaresan answered on 8 Nov 2016:

      I want to use the money for outreach activities. I am planning to arrange a camp for creating awareness among the general public about healthcare. Essentially the need for routine diagnosis. I think it is the need of the hour, seeing the number of patient I see coming to hospital and final stage of the disease (especially with acute tumour)

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