• Question: When did you start to love science

    Asked by made45ear to Souvik, Sabine, Maria, John, Faye, Armin on 8 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by deer45ham.
    • Photo: John Butler

      John Butler answered on 8 Nov 2019: last edited 8 Nov 2019 8:02 pm

      I’ve always been interested in how things work.
      When I was young my favourite toy was LEGO I loved building things and then breaking them. I now spend loads of time why my 5 year old making different things like dinosaurs to princess castles.

      I wrote one of my first computer programs when I was 11, in 1989, it printed out a Christmas tree made of *, it looked a bit like this:
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      While it might not off been pretty it was a big deal to me and made me realise that I liked computers.

    • Photo: Souvik Kundu

      Souvik Kundu answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      In India we celebrate Diwali, it’s the festival of light. I was helping my dad to decorate the house. While my dad went for few moment I wanted to give him surprise by connecting the lights. Mistakenly I connected wrongly and the whole light set got destroyed. My father didn’t scold me at all instead he asked me the reason behind this. After further investigating I found that I did short circuit connection. I used to ask questions a lot in class specially “why???”…my friends called me “Question Bank”…now also they say this name…hhahahaha

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      Maria McNamara answered on 9 Nov 2019:

      I always liked reading books about pretty much anything but I really remember some things which my granny taught me.

      When I was a kid we spent summers at her house in the countryside and she used to send me and all the other grandkids out with fishing nets into the fields and apple orchard to find things….it might have been ‘three different kinds of grasshopper’ or ‘five different types of pink flower’ etc.

      We would stay out for hours hunting around and playing and when we eventually came back to the house she would open up big reference books and we’d look up the creatures or plants that we had found.

      I was amazed by this and loved learning about the natural world. She used to also set up simple science experiments for us, such as making a rainbow using a mirror and a bowl of water. Brilliant and easy ways of exploring the world.

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