Thanks from your winner, Fiona

Wow! What a wonderful surprise to win! Thank you so much to all of you who voted for me! I would also like to say thanks to all the other scientists in my group (Kevin, Anna, Elaine and Darren). Every time I didn’t get voted out I was always surprised because I thought these guys were great and I learned a lot from them. We also had some great chats whilst waiting for classes to log on (I think my favourite was about the possibility of starting an alpaca cafe!).

I really didn’t know what to expect when I signed up to I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here but I enjoyed every moment of it. It is such a unique and clever way of allowing scientists like me to talk to you guys in school without even having to leave the lab (so I can keep doing science at the same time!).

What I was most impressed with was the range and types of questions I was asked. They made me think about things I had never thought about before and some of the questions were really creative and original which was great. One thing I’ve taken away from I’m a Scientist is to remember to keep my mind open, and I’ve got all the students and their questions to thank for that!

I really hope everyone enjoyed the experience as much as I did and I hope you all got an idea of what it is like to be a scientist. I also hope we showed you that scientists are not all crazy (at least not all of the time) and that actually we are very approachable, have hobbies and interests, and do fun things outside of science too. I also hope we perhaps even inspired some of you guys to become scientists in the future!

Thanks everyone!

Fiona

Posted on July 7, 2014 by modjosh in News. Leave a comment

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