I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!
| I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! | |
|---|---|
 Logo for series | |
| Sponsored by | Wellcome Trust |
| Date | 2010 |
| Location | Online |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Reward(s) | £500 |
| Website | imascientist imanengineer |
I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! is an online science enrichment activity that runs throughout term-time in the UK. School students interact with scientists in text-based live chats in themed ‘Zones’. At the end of the event the school students vote for their favourite scientist and the winner is awarded prize money to support further science communication.
Background[]
Pilots for I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here began in 2008, and were well received by school students and teachers.[1] It was founded by Shane McCracken of Gallomanor Communications.[2] The activity is divided into several zones, which focus on either general science or a specific industry. The funding for each zone is provided by an associated learned society, organisation or industry.[3][4][5][6][7] Prior to 2020, the competition format was similar to The X Factor, and school students vote for the winner based on answers they receive to their questions submitted online and in live, text-based chats with the scientists.[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m a Scientist became an ‘on demand’ activity with Zones lasting longer, and scientists staying until the end of each Zone. Participating scientists are given an opportunity to develop their communication skills whilst school students and teachers benefit from contact time with a real-life, practising scientist.[9] The competition is also run for engineers, geoscientists, medics and astronauts, and many more.[10][11][12][13][14]
The activity takes place annually in the UK, Ireland and Spain.[15][16][17][18][19] It has also run in previous years in the United States, Malaysia, Kenya, Vietnam, Germany and Australia.[20][21][22]
Winners[]
I'm a Scientist (UK)[23][]
Winners 2010 - 2014[]
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Coath | Mark Hill | Andy Hearn | Jen Todd Jones | Zach Dixon |
| Kiran Meekings | Murray Collins | Matt Maddock | Phil Wilkinson | Rosie Coates |
| Katy Milne | Julian Rayner | Robin Stafford Allen | Jack Heal | Lewis Dean |
| Joseph Devlin | Adam Tuff | James Vokes | Duncan Gaskin | Aled Roberts |
| Kerstin Zechner | Jamie Pringle | Chris Hill | Leila Nichol | Matthew Malek |
| Sally Fenton | James Chan | Paige Brown | Grant Kennedy | Clara Nellist[24] |
| Ben Still | David Pyle | Adam Stevens | Hayley Evers-King | Amar Joshi |
| Dean Whitaker | Suzi Gage | Martin Austwick | Laura Soul | Roy Adkin |
| Joanna Brooks | Ceri Brenner | Fiona Hatch | James Holloway | Anna Middleton |
| Vicki Onions | Emily Robinson | Jack Snape | Tom Branson | Nick Wright |
| Stephen Curry | Andrew Rae | Katherine Haxton | Jennifer Paxton | John Foster |
| Andrew Maynard | Anna Williams | Vicky Young | Jonathan Stone | Isabel Webb |
| Mark Roberts | Paddy Brock | Sam Vinko | Gary Boorman | Jennifer Stephens |
| Panos Soultanas | Jim Caryl | Sean Murphy | Suzanne Harvey | James Bell |
| Katy Mee | Carys Cook | Joanna Cruden | Andrew Swale | Roberto Trotta[25] |
| Tom Hardy | Zara Gladman | Kirsty Ross | Dave Briggs | Sam Connolly |
| Jon Copley | Barbara Guinn | Ashley Cadby | Lyn Lim | Sergey Lamzin |
| Ian Sillett | Cat O'Connor | Bob Bonwick | Simon Holyoake | Daren Fearon |
| Joseph Cook | Helen O'Connor | Allan Pang | Rhodri Jenkins | Daryl Jones |
| Steven Kiddle | Amy Reeve | Carol White | Sam Geen | Dave Jones |
| Joanna Buckley | Wei Xun | Tom Lister | Keith Siew | Ditte Hedegaard |
| Ceri Thomas | Gemma Sharp | Nuala Carson | Alan Richardson | Peter Elliott |
| Deuan Jones | Dave Sproson | Michael Cook | Stuart Archer | Loren MacDonald |
| Hywel Vaughan | Sam Tazzyman | Anouk Gouvras | Dave Farmer | Andrew French |
| Joanna Watson | Evan Keane | John Short | Chris Whittle | Jemma Rowlandson |
| Rika Nair | Nicola Ibberson | Sarah-Jane Walsh | Ekbal Hussain | |
| Suze Kundu | Sarah Martin | Becky Cook | Rebecca Williams | |
| Tom Crick | Samantha Weaver | Jess Bean | Naomi Osborne | |
| Ian van der Linde | Lizzie Eaves | Hannah Brotherton | Fiona McLean | |
| Jennifer Gupta | Alison Atkin | Becki Scott | David Davila | |
| Peta Foster | Pete Etchells | Mario Ruiz | Matt Bilton | |
| Ben Still | Eileen Diskin | Sofia Franco | Stefan Lines | |
| Enda O'Connell | Sarah Tesh | Katie Pickering | ||
| Paul Higgins | Vicky Forster | Angela Stokes | ||
| Robert Insall | Simon Langley-Evans | Sarah Ashwood | ||
| Joanna Giles | Kristian Harder | Lisa Simmons | ||
| Callum Johnston | Matthew Tomlinson | Helen Johnson | ||
| James Hickey | Matthew Camilleri | |||
| Zach Dixon | Alexander Pool | |||
| Rosie Coates | Arthur Dyer | |||
| Lewis Dean | ||||
| Aled Roberts | ||||
| Matthew Malek | ||||
| Clara Nellist[24] | ||||
| Amar Joshi | ||||
| Roy Adkin | ||||
| Anna Middleton | ||||
| Nick Wright | ||||
| John Foster | ||||
| Isabel Webb |
Winners 2015 - 2019[]
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Clements | Christopher Blanford | Carrie Ijichi | Neil Keddie | Lee Steinberg |
| Barbara Shih | Cat Scott | Sallie Baxendale | Stephanie Mann | Rosanna Tilbrook |
| Jo Sadler | Majid Ahmed | Daniel Fovergue | David Howard | Martin McCoustra |
| Carmen Denam | Emma Dean (Osbourne) | Craig O'Hare | Max Jamily | Sophia Pells |
| Hugh Harvey | Paul O'Mahoney | Hannah Sargeant | Tim Duckenfield | Matthew Smith |
| Elizabeth Cooper | Lauren Laing | James Gudgeon | Sophie Williams | Vassilis Sideropoulos |
| Glafkos Havariyoun | Scott Lawrie | Lewis Wright | Jacque Cilliers | James Munro |
| Peter Maskell | Lowri Evans | Alex Evans | Jennifer Paxton | Zoe Winshurst |
| Anais Pujol | Hayley Moulding | Sanjib Bhatka | Ali Hill | Lowri Evans |
| Ollie Brown | Jonathan Hunter | Liz Buckingham-Jeffery | Daniel Marsh | Oliver Gordon |
| Sam Ellis | Laura Finney | Jermaine Ravalier | Samuel Vennin | Alexander Allen |
| Philip Moriarty[26] | Matt Dunn | Sam Carr | Sam Burton | Russell Arnott |
| James Pope | Joanna Bagniewska | Matt Lee | Daniel Jolley | Stuart Higgins |
| Frank Longford | Koi Wangwiwatsin | Dan Smith | Alex Seeney | Nick Werren |
| Imogen Napper | Angus Cook | Rosie Cane | Ella Mercer | Anastasia Aliferi |
| Jess Wade | Dawn Lau | Natasha Myhill | Abbie Jordan | Paul Laurance-Young |
| James Gilbert | Euan Allen | Ryan Cutter | Callum McHugh | Joanna Barstow |
| Sarah Beasley | Elliot Jokl | Ananthi Ramachandran | Danny Ward | Harry Wilkinson |
| Andy Scott | Joe Bathelt | Georgina Hazell | David Ho | Pizza Chow |
| Laura Wales | Steve Street | Duncan McNicholl | Alex Reid | Jolel Miah |
| Richard Prince | Megan Seymour | Oli Wilson | Rachel Sharman | Elena Maters |
| Thomas Farrugia | Lauren Burt | Senga Roberston-Albertyn | Liam Taylor | Bruno Silvester Lopes |
| Chris Armstrong | Zarah Pattison | Graeme Poole | Mark Johnson | |
| Jonny Brooks-Bartlett | Darren Rhodes | Kelly Rushton | Jack Joyce | |
| Ryan Cheale | Miranda Bane | Iain Stainland | Alex Batchelor | |
| Hayley Clissold | Reka Nagy | Varun Ramaswamy | ||
| Sara Falcone | Laura-Anne Furlong | |||
| Jesus Calvo-Castro | ||||
| Jack Carlyle | ||||
| Cristina Villa Del Campo | ||||
| Ashley Hughes | ||||
| Ross King | ||||
| Nicholas Pearce | ||||
| Natalie Garrett |
Winners 2020 -[]
| 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Heikel | Martin McCoustra | |
| Priya Silverstein | Felicity Hunter | |
| Catherine Talbot | Amelia Gilio | |
| Binuraj Menon | ||
| Dave Constable | Kip Heath | |
| Douglas Bray | Emma Yhnell | |
| Ben Cropper | John Shaw | |
| Ross Alexander | Yueng Lenn | |
| Stacey New | Michael Hills | |
| Danica Pinto | Jennifer Allen | |
| Baptiste Ravina | Alex Baxendale | |
| Mick Schubert | Rafael Galupa | |
| Edward Banks | Karen Fung | |
| David Sobral | Luke Townsend | |
| Shanmugapriyan M. | ||
| Eliza Hunt | ||
| Amy Rattenbury | ||
| Amelia Gilio | ||
| Parise Carmichael-Murphy | ||
| Zsolt Keszthelyi | ||
| Melanie Swang | ||
| Kirsty Lindsay |
I'm an Engineer (UK)[27][]
Winners 2012 - 2016[]
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andy Hearn | Gary Boorman | Jessica Marshall Housden | Neil Taylor | Ross Miller |
| Matt Maddock | Graham Wiggins | Felicity Harer | Ryan Bakewell | |
| Robin Stafford Allen | Mark Greaves | Stacey Cutten | Stuart Inglis | |
| James Vokes | Zoe George | Mohamed Salah | Matt Round | |
| Chris Hill | Alex Lyness | Naomi Green | Andrew Pidgeon | |
| Paige Brown | Norbert Gogiel | Chris Hackett | ||
| Nicola Lazenby | Lizzie Kapasa | Mark Gowan | ||
| Lee Margetts | Laura O'Shea | |||
| Zack Gill | Matt Hobbs | |||
| Will Scott-Jackson | Eloise Taysom | |||
| Rhys Archer | Richard Symonds | |||
| Stevie Wray | James Clarke | |||
| Michael Sulu | Leon Wechie | |||
| Will Avison |
Winners 2017 - 2021[]
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Gallego | Demi Ademuyewo | Leah Morgan | Yannick Verbelen | Michael Jones |
| Ollie Morris | Hollie Heard | Brian Weaver | Hester Baird | |
| Emma Ryan | Guy Rixon | Shruti Turner | Chloe James | |
| Stacey Marple | Eimear Tuohy | Chris Parmenter | Harriet Gamble | |
| Gina Schade | Graham Cullen | Jessica Korzeniowska | ||
| Petros Papapanagiotou | Fiona Freeman | Femi Olushola | ||
| Sean Doherty | Boris Mocialov[28] | |||
| Lauren Ashmore | Andrew Margetts-Kelly | |||
| K'Jo O'Flynn | ||||
| Henry Watts |
I'm a Medic (UK)[29][]
- Shehla Imtiaz-Umer
- Robert Cullum
- Jamie Hynes
- Neel Halder
- Tarik Shembesh
- Team Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH)
I'm a Scientist (Ireland)[30][]
2012[]
- Eileen Diskin
- Enda O'Connell
- Paul Higgins
2013[]
- Shane McGuinness
- Sive Finlay
- Sinead Cullen
- Joseph Roche
2014[]
- Chloe Kinsella
- James Sullivan
- Shikha Sharma
- Ciaran O'Brien
2015[]
- Sinead Balgobin
- Emma Feeney
- Claire O'Connell
- Uday Bangavadi
2016[]
- Stephen Davitt
- Sebastian Gornik
- Aoife Lucid
- Dave Concannon
- Mark Kennedy
2017[]
- Shannon Fullbrook
- Emma Hanley
- Ciara O'Donovan
- Sarah Guerin
2018[]
- Jasmine Headlam
- Fiana Ní Ghrálaigh
- Hugh Manning
- Sheila Castilho
- Sonia Lenehan
2019[]
- Aoife Campbell
- Jessica Franklin
- Katie Starsmore
- Souvik Kundu
- Jake Cunningham
2020[]
- Marcello Valente
2021[]
- Gaël Lymer
- Min Yap
I'm an Engineer (Ireland)[31][]
2014[]
- Laura Tobin
- David Taylor
2015[]
- Padraic Morrissey
- Martin O'Halloran
2016[]
- Conor McGinn
- Ned Dywer
2017[]
- David Nolan
- James Harpur
- Cathal Ó Murchú
2018[]
- Fiona Freeman
- Eimear Tuohy
- Graham Cullen
2019[]
- Kevin O'Brien
- Diana Abrunhosa
- Stephen O'Connor
2020[]
- Ollie Otter
- Connor McGookin
- Fiona Malone
2021
- Mike Hinchey
I'm a Geoscientist (Europe)[12][]
- Anna Rabitti
- Andreas Rudersdorf
I'm a Mathematician (UK)[]
- Sarah Brown
I'm a Scientist (USA)[]
- Amelia Grose
References[]
- ^ "I'm a Scientist, Get Me out of Here! | Wellcome". wellcome.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ McCracken, Shane (2010-05-25), I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here (Intro for Scientists), retrieved 2018-08-09
- ^ "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here". www.rsc.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm a Scientist…Get me out of here! - insight". insight. 2018-07-19. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm a Scientist (Get me out of here) | British Society for Cell Biology". bscb.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Who won our zones in I'm a Scientist, Get me out of Here? | BPS". www.bps.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "British Andrology | I'm a scientist, Get me out of here – scientists needed!". www.britishandrology.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ Physics, Institute of. "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Teachers - I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!". I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm an Engineer, Get me out of here! – An engineering education and engagement event!". imanengineer.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm an Engineer, Get me out of here! – Ireland – An engineering education and engagement event!". imanengineer.ie. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ a b "I'm a Geoscientist – An online geoscience outreach education and engagement activity". imageoscientist.eu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm a Medic, Get me out of here!". imamedic.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm an Astronaut, Get me out of here! – I'm an Astronaut, Get me out of here!". imanastronaut.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Students talk with scientists - I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!". imascientist.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Students talk with scientists - I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! - Ireland". imascientist.ie. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Científicos y estudiantes se encuentran en la red - Somos científicos, sácanos de aquí". somoscientificos.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! - Kenya". imascientist.or.ke. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- ^ "Chat với Nhà khoa học – Kết nối Khoa học với trường học". chatvoinhakhoahoc.vn (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- ^ "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! - USA". I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!- USA. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- ^ "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here, Malaysia: Zuhal and Uranus Zone". Academy of Sciences Malaysia. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- ^ "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! - Australia". imascientist.org.au. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
- ^ "Zone Archive - I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!". I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ a b "I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!". Clara Nellist. 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "About". Dr Roberto Trotta. 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ Physics, Institute of. "Philip Moriarty is a winner in I'm a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here contest". www.iop.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Zone Archive – I'm an Engineer, Get me out of here!". imanengineer.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Twitter post about the winner of the artificial body zone". 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
- ^ "Zone Archive – I'm a Medic, Get me out of here!". imamedic.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Zone Archive - I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! - Ireland". I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here! - Ireland. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
- ^ "Zone Archive – I'm an Engineer, Get me out of here! – Ireland". imanengineer.ie. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
Categories:
- Secondary schools in the United Kingdom
- Science communication
- Science education in the United Kingdom
- Wellcome Trust