A teacher opened the lab to students, taught from the benches, and added statistics to the curriculum. That access and hands-on work shaped how her students approached science careers.
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And, you know, here we are, sort of year 11 students, and he actually gives us a key and says, you can go to the laboratory whenever you want. You can hang out in there at lunchtimes, you can work on your little experiments, you can just hang out there, you can do whatever. We ended up doing all our classes in the lab. We'd just sit around the lab benches and he'd walk around and just do our ag science classes. Sort of comment, though, on the impact, like he, he went beyond the syllabus. He sort of gave us an understanding of statistics, even though that was actually sort of beyond the syllabus, because he said, if you're going to get into science, this is what you need to start to understand.