The future of science

Pauline Neville Jones: Futures Day is the big thing, as far as I'm concerned. It's about kids and the future. It's about the future of this country, because most of the kids who are coming here are British. Most of them are going to be the future leadership of this country. The future people who run the industries and produce the entrepreneurship and actually create the wealth. So that's why, come here and see a great career! This actually is a great career - this is an expanding industry and one that's actually very important - important to this country but also important globally, you know? Where Britain could be a leader.

Peter Hatfield: For the award, me and some friends from school did a scientific experiment that's going to be launched into orbit on a Surrey Satellite Technology satellite. It's an experiment that's going to be detecting cosmic rays - high-energy particles that constantly bombard the Earth's atmosphere. So what we're going to be looking at is how much energy they have, what type of particle, what angle. And this will help us to protect things like disaster monitoring satellites, help us to predict solar warmth, and all sorts of things that are vital to the world we live in. 

Date: Mon Aug 02 14:46:33 BST 2010