Posted by Hedgehog under blog's category : Schools education

For two weeks this June I took part in the 'I'm a scientist...get me out of here 2011' competition at the Wellcome Trust. Okay, I know what you are thinking: a bunch of scientists armed with pipettes and a copy of the periodic table have been flung into the jungle with the nation's favourite Geordies, Ant and Dec...! Well not quite, but nearly as scary.

The jungle was a virtual one and the trials were science questions set by school students from across the UK. We had to answer the questions as best we could in chatrooms and live webchats and then, in true 'X-factor style' the students got to play the part of Simon Cowell and decide who stayed and who went. There were 115 of us at the start divided into 23 'zones', but only one left standing in each zone at the end.

 

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