- Vicki B, from Magnolia Middle School in Joppa, Maryland.
What made you wanna be a scientist?
- I got this one.
(laughter)
- So, my Earth Science teacher in third grade,
I don't know if you guys have an awesome teacher,
maybe in sixth grade, third grade.
So I started doing Science Fair
and I joined the Science Club.
So, if you guys have something like that,
you might wanna join.
And she took us caving.
She took us on our first wild tour, and we went caving
and I realized I love rocks,
I love caves, that's what I wanna do.
I don't know how I'm gonna do it,
and then I realized I could study geology.
But it was something that was calling me
since I was very, very young.
- Yeah, and my fifth grade science teacher, Mrs. Hamilton.
I'm from west Tennesee
- [Girl In Crowd] Hi Mrs. Hamilton.
and our gravel, is actually our driveways and all,
are loaded with fossils.
And she brought them in, explained what fossils were,
and course we had a gravel driveway,
and once I started noticing and recognizing
all the different kinds of animals and fossils
that are there, I started bringing them in buckets,
and bringing them into the house.
So, most of the driveway ended up in the house.
And so, actually, that was my very first time introduced
to the fossils, and I have been in paleontology ever since.
- I had a similar experience to Barb
with the buckets of rocks.
I grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan, Michigan anybody?
(laughter)
Yeah!
And I brought buckets of rocks back
from the shore of Lake Michigan.
My dad would take us out and we'd look for agates
and fossils, petoskey stones, and things like that so.
- Absolutely.
- Very cool.