News Exercise #33

Questions:
1) What prompted her to work on a new battery?
2) What two things can this new capacitor do?
3) At 0:25 she makes a scientific joke (which I didn’t find at all funny!). What was it?
4) What is the name of the competition shoe entered? I___ i_________ s_______ and e______ f____.
5) How many entries are there for this each year?
6) On the TV show, she mentioned ‘complicated materials’. What was the presenter’s reaction to that?
7) What has she never been worried about, which may actually put others off doing this work?
8) At 1:41 she says people are so surprised that such a young person could do this – how does she explain the reason?

Answers:

1) What prompted her to work on a new battery?

She was always frustrated when her cell phone battery used to die.

2) What two things can this new capacitor do?

It can charge really quickly and hold a lot of energy.

3) At 0:25 she makes a scientific joke (which I didn’t find at all funny!). What was it?

She said that nano engineers work with things that they can’t see, which, she said, makes them a lot cooler.

4) What is the name of the competition shoe entered? I___ i_________ s_______ and e______ f____.

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

5) How many entries are there for this each year?

1600 to 1700

6) On the TV show, she mentioned ‘complicated materials’. What was the presenter’s reaction to that?

Now you’re condescending to me!

7) What has she never been worried about, which may actually put others off doing this work?

She has never been afraid to be the only girl in a science class or to be the only girl in a research lab.

8) At 1:41 she says people are so surprised that such a young person could do this – how does she explain the reason? 

She said that she’s had mentors and professors who had been so helpful throughout the entire process.