I'm a scientist

Originally, I planned to send live videos from our research ship to schools, so that students could take part in our expeditions, see what we are discovering on the ocean floor, chat to our team, and even sometimes direct our operations to explore the deep sea for themselves. To fulfill our dream of a live [...]

Since winning I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! generates a lot of publicity I was approached by our local science centre to take part in their ‘Meet the scientist programme’. This usually involves scientists from the North of England taking down a few props and talking to the visitors about their research. But [...]

As a winner of the June 2010 event I had promised to honour a £50 prize offered by a fellow competitor called Daniel Mietchen for his competition which can be found here. As yet the prize is unclaimed and as I still have the money, it’s still up for grabs. I also said I was [...]

We’ve decided on the 8 zones running in the March I’m a Scientist event. In mid November the Wellcome Trust agreed to fund 50% of the costs of I’m a Scientist for the next 3 years, and we’ve also got 4 sponsors supporting themed zones. The 3 General zones are named after elements and will [...]

It hardly seems like two minutes since schools started back in September. The year has slipped by so quickly that it feels compulsory to record a few of the highlights. Here goes: January The year started with the arrival of...

We would like to congratulate the following students who have been named as the student winners in their zones of the STFC sponsored November 2011 event. Subatomic Zone – Aaron Dinas, Littleover Community School Zinc Zone – Anu Elegbede, St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School Well done to Aaron and Anu! The moderators thought they [...]

Earlier in the year we ran a competition, with the help of New Scientist, for you to suggest your favourite questions ever asked in I’m a Scientist. Many great questions were put forward and our judges had a hard time choosing the winners. But now, for your delight and delectation, here they are! Winner Tom [...]

For the next three weeks 14 researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute will be talking with school students from a local Cambridgeshire school in Genome Futures, an I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! event. Genome Futures is part of the Wellcome Trust’s 75th anniversary celebrations, where Wellcome Trust-funded centres, such as the [...]

After two weeks of intense debate, stimulating chats and thought-provoking questions, I’m a Scientist, Get me out of Here! draws to an end. The five STFC scientists in each of the Subatomic and Zinc Zones battled it out for student votes, chatting with students in 36 live chats and answering 684 questions along the way. [...]

Last week we (that’s Shane and Sophia) sat before a Wellcome Trust Grants Committee to ask them to fund the project for 3 more years. Prof Stephen Curry and Dan Hannard from Woodkirk Academy came along to give a first hand account of participating in the event as a scientist and teacher. Over 100 scientists [...]

Tomorrow, Tuesday 8th November, at 16.20 is an important time. Sophia and I, aided by Dan Hannard and Prof. Stephen Curry, participating teacher and scientist, will be asking the Wellcome Trust to part-fund I’m a Scientist for another 3 years. We have a 10 minute presentation and then 25 minutes of Q&A. We need your [...]

It’s a good few months since the last I’m a Scientist in June earlier this year, and the time has come to run another event! From November 14th-25th we are running a smaller I’m a Scientist event with 2 zones. It’s sponsored by the Science & Technology Facilities Council, so the 10 scientists taking part [...]

I'm a Scientist, Decipher my data! is about making data real for secondary school students. The first in what we hope is a series of projects is called Flu! and is funded by the Wellcome Trust. We need a passionate...

I've got three Florida-based events next month. Please stop by and say hello if you're in the area! 1. Florida State Poets Association convention (Oct. 14-16, at the Orlando Marriott, Lake Mary), where as contest chair I ...

Have your students ever wondered what scientists are really like? During I’m a Scientist questions around this theme are very common: Can I be a scientist like you? Is being a scientist like the stereotypical one who wears a white lab coat and huge glasses with crazy hair? What makes a good scientist? After winning [...]

Steve Curry is a structural biologist at Imperial College, London. He won the his division of the online I'm a scientist, get me out of here competition, and he used his £500 award to make a film. I'm a scientist is being released ...