• Question: Why should i vote for you to win?

    Asked by Dylon to Ed, Kerrianne, Nina, Oli, yoyehudi on 6 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Kerrianne Harrington

      Kerrianne Harrington answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      Because I would use the money from winning to do really cool public engagement. This would mean audiences, including students like yourself, could use our imaging fibres. This would be a portable, live and easily usable optical experiment. Imaging fibres are long, flexible strands of glass that can look at microscopic objects, so what you would see through the fibre would be similar to what you could see through a microscope, but it is much more transportable and can see around corners. You could use for yourself the same type of optical imaging fibre we use to look inside the lungs!

    • Photo: Oli Wilson

      Oli Wilson answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      Because you know just how important plants are for all life on Earth and you want your vote to reflect that?
      Or because you know that humans need plants to survive because they’re everywhere in our lives – from the cotton in our clothes to the medicines we take and the fruit, vegetables, grains and additives in our food and drink – and you think the plants deserve a bit of the limelight for once?
      Perhaps because (like all really brilliant people) you appreciate just how beautiful pollen grains are, and you like the idea of 3D printing models of them – especially if I end up bringing them to your school to chat about fossil pollen time machines…
      Or maybe even because you like how I can give lots of answers to the same question and think my indecision is worth a pity vote 😉

    • Photo: Yo Yehudi

      Yo Yehudi answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      If I win, I’ll be making stuff to give away, like stickers! 😀 I also would like to run a blogging / article writing competition about your favourite genes, and provide prizes for the best entries.
      All the scientists look pretty great though – I’m sure any of us would love to win, and we’d all be worthy. (aww)

    • Photo: Ed Bracey

      Ed Bracey answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      So I can make more episodes of this, and improve the ones I’ve done so far!

      http://www.helenselement.com

      It’s an online comic that explains biology as an adventure story.

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