I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.
When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.
I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.