• Question: What kind of things did you create or build or design so I know if you are my favourite sciencetist and I want to vote for you?

    Asked by to Áine, Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia, Victoria on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Hello!

      In science we say we design experiments (thats a fancy word for we plan an experiment), which is what I do! I work on food chains in the sea shore, so if I would win I would let you guys design and plan your own experiment and bring the mud to schools to do experiments with the animals that live in the mud.
      Together we would try to think about experiments that will allow us to answer questions like: What lives in sand compared to mud, are there different animals lower on shore than higher on shore, or what animals can be found in summer and winter?

    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      I’ve created a couple of little computer programs to help me sort through all the computer data I generate in my experiments. They’re not very pretty, but they work fast and I can leave them running overnight or on a weekend while I go home and relax 🙂

      I’ve designed a lot of experiments, which involves a lot of sitting down and drawing diagrams and schedules to figure out how to run a bunch of tests, and trying to come up with ways it could go wrong and coming up with plans to make sure it doesn’t, and when it finally does go wrong despite all that planning, you have a back-up plan 🙂

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