• Question: Why do you think you should win the money?

    Asked by Hazel1597 to Ted, S. S., Laura, Kevin, Ellen, Andrea on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Andrea Pacheco

      Andrea Pacheco answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Well, I think the money has to go to the engineer who’s answers you fancy the most. It can be me or it can not 😉

    • Photo: Laura Farina

      Laura Farina answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Because ti will help me helping maybe the young research of the future to discover their passion.

      I would donate education kit and material to a small school in Addis Abeba, in Ethiopia. It is called “school” but it is actually a place where kids can play and spend their time having fun while learning things. I would bring them the paper microscope: it is a very cheap microscope made of paper… they will get the chance to discover cells. This school is in a very poor area of the town where the kids have not much opportunities to learn things and do funny activities.
      I would give them also colours, papers, clay to discover art: those things that are so normal for us for them are rare and difficult to have.

    • Photo: Ted Burke

      Ted Burke answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I’m not worried about winning the money – I was motivated to take part more because I want school students to get a better understanding of engineering and realise what an exciting career it can be. I already do a lot of STEM (science technology engineering maths) promotion, running robotics workshops with school groups and the public. If I win this money I’ll be using it for that, but I’ll be running workshops either way. If I win the money it will just mean more free robots for more people!

    • Photo: S S

      S S answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      The money is not that important as along as one love what they do .. and if the money comes you can use it to promote the STEM in the direction that you think it is more useful for human being …

    • Photo: Kevin OBrien

      Kevin OBrien answered on 5 Mar 2019: last edited 5 Mar 2019 5:18 pm

      Having read through the other engineers’ profiles, I think they all have good ideas for how to use the money to promote STEM among young people.
      I selected providing hardware to schools as my idea as I think engineering is best understood by getting hands-on with technology, figuring out how it works, and how it can be improved or adapted.

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