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Eureka Moment Minute with Lily Colmer

Friday, February 11, 2011

Lily Colmer won the 2010 Sleek Geeks Science Eureka Prize for primary schools.   

1. What doors opened for you as a result of winning your Eureka Prize?

Quest Newspaper Arts Education Winner and I've been invited to visit the MARCS lab at the University of Western Sydney

2. Where do you keep your trophy?
On my piano

3. What do you do when you are not doing science?
Play my piano

4. What is your favourite.... (quote, movie, song, book)
Quote : Never let yourself be a victim , never get bullied into silence except no ones definition of your life, define yourself.

Movie : Twilight saga

Song: just like music

Book: Fallen by Lauren Kate

5. If you had to convince someone about the value of science what would you say in 25 words or less?
Science is in everything we do, if we didn't have science we wouldn't be here, science rocks.

Watch Lily's highly commended video Can You Hear The Music here: http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleekgeeks/eureka/2010/

Enter the 2011 University of Sydney Sleek Geek Science Eureka Prize here.

 

Lily Colmer

Lily Colmer
Photographer: Studio 247
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