• Question: How old were you when you got interested in science?

    Asked by Bobelina567 on 11 Feb 2021. This question was also asked by anon-280298, anon-281023, anon-281466, anon-280375, anon-284182.
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      Alice Rhind-Tutt answered on 11 Feb 2021:

      I was about 11 when I said I wanted to be a scientist, I was sure I was going to cure cancer! But I didn’t really get into it until I was about 16 and choosing my A-levels

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      Kate Dobson answered on 11 Feb 2021:

      I always liked science at school, and also liked finding out how the world worked outside school (nature documentaries, building dens, exploring the woods, growing stuff in the garden etc) all of which used bits and pieces of science even if I didn’t realise it

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      Isabel Lewis answered on 13 Feb 2021:

      I likes science in school but I would say I got really interested in it during college when I studied animal management and welfare and I enjoyed the science modules. It drove me to university to study bioveterinary science which combined both my interest of science and animals together.

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      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 15 Feb 2021:

      Very young, probably when I was still in junior school and by high school I was already reading chemistry books for fun. I always liked all sorts of mathematical puzzles.

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      Moya Macdonald answered on 15 Feb 2021:

      I think maybe when choosing subjects for Standard grades (GCSEs in England) around 13/14. I was really passionate about the environment and thought science might be a good way to study and work on protecting it.

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      Katie West answered on 15 Feb 2021:

      Hi Lucy 🙂 I think I first started to really like science around my GCSE’s, I as I progressed through the different stages the Science kept getting more interesting.

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      Amal Lavender answered on 22 Feb 2021:

      ooh wow great question – to be honest I was always interested in how things worked, making things and seeing what happened. I really didn’t like English or History so first choices were to drop History and did Geography and also did Sport Studies as I liked seeing the theory in practice (I ended up even doing it at A level with Maths and Physics!). when I knew I couldn’t be a pilot I then focused on becoming an engineer.

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