My journey into scientific engagement started with @cgebm_aberdeen during my masters in 2017 at @aberdeenuni May Festival - which celebrates culture and education around the city and university campus (1/4) 
As part of this event, the CGEBM hosted ‘Gene’s unzipped’ - where we taught primary school students from around Aberdeenshire what DNA is, why it’s so awesome. We also helped the students perform my favourite basic science experiment - extracting DNA from strawberries (2/4)
With some fruit, washing up liquid and alcohol, you get a suspension of DNA in a solution and it’s a bit gooey and fun to play with too! For more information on how to do this with young budding scientists - head here genome.gov/Pages/Educatio… (3/4)
And with that I was hooked. I loved the interaction, questions and chance to talk about what it means to be as scientist after being told by one girl that she didn’t think scientists looked like me or wore pink! Has anyone else been told they 'don't look like a scientist'? (4/4)
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