Question: what got you interested in science?

Asked by maddy to Nathan, Kate, Edward, Posty, Bev on 11 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by shikera, mikaylaemmiline, spike19, rebecca, shadae, chiler35, bigmack, brittelliott, moonta, science2011321, notfred, emmajane98, breeismee, holly0981, shey24, humpie, awesomekid, awesomekid, raymondjames, raymondjames, leishy, jess, jess.

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  1. Photo: Kate PattersonKate Patterson
    answered on 11 Jun 2011:

    Hi maddy, I remember the first time I realised what science was! it was year 6 and our teacher was telling us about clouds – the different types and how they form. But, thinking back I was always the curious kid, pulling things apart to see how they worked… which I’m sure my dad was not at all happy about, because he was the one that had to put them back together again!!

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  2. Photo: Bev MuhlhauslerBev Muhlhausler
    answered on 11 Jun 2011:

    I think my first experience of science was when I was about 6, when I set up my own “lab” in the garage where I’d mix together all sorts of different things, mainly food and cleaning products to see what happened. I also always loved animals, especially dinosaurs and seals, and used to spend a lot of time reading kids books about animal behaviour and animal physiology. I guess that was the reason I chose to do biology, and I still find it amazing how humans and animals work.

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  3. Photo: Edward ShinEdward Shin
    answered on 11 Jun 2011:

    Hi maddy,

    Almost as far back as I can remember, I’ve been interested in the why and the how of things. I read children’s books titled ‘The Earth’, ‘The Hovercraft’, and so on. Then there were all the David Attenborough programmes I watched on TV. And just looking at the night sky on a moonless night in the country (away from bright city lights).

    But I didn’t become specifically interested in physics until I read the intriguingly titled best-selling book A Brief History of Time. And it wasn’t till even later — perhaps when I was 15 or so — that I asked myself what ‘science’ really was. I STILL haven’t managed to come up with a definition of ‘science’ that I’m completely happy with!

    Oh, and unlike Kate and Bev, I’ve never really enjoyed (or been good at) tinkering with things or doing experiments. One of my four closest friends still complains about the one and only experiment he did with me in Year 12 Chemistry; a second of those four friends will tell you about how he and I built the only electric motor in our Year 12 Physics class that didn’t work; and the remaining two friends have been able to avoid having me as a lab partner.

    Perhaps that’s why I stayed away from labs and experiments at university: in the 7-8 years I’ve studied science at university, there was only half a year when I had lab subject.

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