• Question: If you weren't to win how would you still try and persue to make your research happen?

    Asked by to Ben, Dave, Ditte, Heather on 26 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Ben White answered on 25 Jun 2014:


      @katnissseverdeen, while I’m certainly not volunteering as tribute in this mental hunger games, my work and our research here at The Genome Analysis Centre will still go on. The £500 I’d like to put towards making a game or something interactive to teach people about our science is still something I would like to do, and I’ll be talking to the people I work with about making it happen. If I was to win though, this would be more likely to happen sooner, and the game would probably be better also.

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      Ditte Hedegaard answered on 25 Jun 2014:


      Hi Katnissseverdeen

      It would be great if I could win, but even if I don’t I still continue going to schools and talk about my research and science in general. I want to use half of the money to buy laboratory equipment to do experiments at schools and also invite school classes into our laboratory, however without the money this might be difficult.

      The other half of the money would go to TASTE (The African Science Truck Experience), which will bring science experiments out to schools in rural Uganda. I believe that everyone deserves a ‘taste’ of science, so if I don’t win this competition I will probably try to get some other sponsorships for them. I think this mobile laboratory is such a good idea, so I really want to help them.

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      Dave Baker answered on 26 Jun 2014:


      It’s the taking part that counts. I’ll still be working towards my same goals. The money would have gone towards say a mobile app which gets people interested and understanding genetics and genomics. Good luck in the future!

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