• Question: what do you want to do with the money if you win?

    Asked by tasha_cooley to Rumman, Petros, Peppe, Greg, Fran on 4 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Petros Papapanagiotou

      Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 4 Nov 2017:

      I want to start a YouTube channel where I can explain cool stuff related to Artificial Intelligence so that anyone can understand! Anyone could ask questions (like you do here) and I would make a video to answer.

    • Photo: Giuseppe Cotugno

      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      As described in my profile, the money will be spent to support the education of women in engineering, in a developing country as Sri Lanka, living in unprivileged areas. I have already identified a suitable girls high school in the north of the country, which is an area that suffered from a recent civil war.

      If, for any case, it will be literally impossible to use the money in any way to support women in engineering, I will consider donating the money to a charity trust, which provides education to poor members of the tea leaf collection community (tealeaftrust.com/work/) to support general education primarily of women (other people are of course welcome too). The first option will be supporting teaching in Sri Lankan high school.

    • Photo: Fran Zuch

      Fran Zuch answered on 6 Nov 2017:

      I would like to do a Kids / Teen Coding workshop – basically an introduction to coding. I feel many kids might be interested, but think it could be too difficult or don’t know where to start (at least that is how I felt). I had some great experiences attending them myself.

    • Photo: Greg Chance

      Greg Chance answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I’d like to bring a group of school pupils to the Bristol Robotics Lab and show them all the people and robots that we have here and show them the cool research we are doing.

    • Photo: Rumman Chowdhury

      Rumman Chowdhury answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I’m starting a nonprofit data school for refugees and other vulnerable communities, called Moderne Academy. We’re starting with Syrian refugees in Lebanon – teaching coding and data analysis and data visualization. I’d use the money to help fund that.

Comments

  • Photo: Pooja

    Pooja commented on :

    Hi Tasha.. thanks for the question. I appreciate the curiosity.

    I have thought of a few things that I would like to do.. Creating communication packs with simple and catchy flyers that tell the importance of younger generation to be engaged in STEM careers and importance of women in technology to be displayed and given out to students at a school here in India. If I still have some more left then I would take some time out to create new videos that give simple tips in Maths to students studying GCSE and equivalent levels (in other parts of the world).

    If you have any suggestions to what I should do with the money, I’m all ears.

  • Photo: tasha_cooley

    tasha_cooley commented on :

    Thank you for answering my question I can’t wait to see these plans in action.