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- Vicki B, from Magnolia Middle
School in Joppa, Maryland.

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What made you wanna be a scientist?

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- I got this one.

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(laughter)

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- So, my Earth Science
teacher in third grade,

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I don't know if you guys
have an awesome teacher,

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maybe in sixth grade, third grade.

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So I started doing Science Fair

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and I joined the Science Club.

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So, if you guys have something like that,

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you might wanna join.

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And she took us caving.

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She took us on our first
wild tour, and we went caving

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and I realized I love rocks,

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I love caves, that's what I wanna do.

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I don't know how I'm gonna do it,

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and then I realized I could study geology.

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But it was something that was calling me

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since I was very, very young.

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- Yeah, and my fifth grade
science teacher, Mrs. Hamilton.

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I'm from west Tennesee

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- [Girl In Crowd] Hi Mrs. Hamilton.

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and our gravel, is actually
our driveways and all,

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are loaded with fossils.

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And she brought them in,
explained what fossils were,

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and course we had a gravel driveway,

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and once I started
noticing and recognizing

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all the different kinds
of animals and fossils

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that are there, I started
bringing them in buckets,

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and bringing them into the house.

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So, most of the driveway
ended up in the house.

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And so, actually, that was
my very first time introduced

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to the fossils, and I have been
in paleontology ever since.

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- I had a similar experience to Barb

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with the buckets of rocks.

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I grew up on the shores of Lake
Michigan, Michigan anybody?

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(laughter)

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Yeah!

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And I brought buckets of rocks back

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from the shore of Lake Michigan.

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My dad would take us out
and we'd look for agates

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and fossils, petoskey stones,
and things like that so.

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- Absolutely.

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- Very cool.