你长大了想要做什么

我是噢哇啦“问问专家（Ask An Expert）”的一员。我很喜欢跟孩子们在一起，跟他们分享科学让我回想起自己的小时候，提醒我当初为什么进入这个领域。孩子们不时会提出一个问题把我难倒，我还得做点调研才能回答。

噢哇啦的父母和孩子对科技的热情让我感动。噢哇啦给小学生设计的很多实验，是我当年上了高中才有机会做的。

有一次，一位噢哇啦少年研究员跟我讨论未来的职业规划。我问他多大了，他说8岁。他告诉我，他在电视上看到医用机器人给病人做手术，他说等他长大了就去设计这样的机器人。他的理想比我8岁时候的理想要远大和具体多了。科学和科技的飞速发展，激发孩子们更勇敢更放胆地去畅想，父母亲、教育工作者、科学家、科技工作者……我们所有人，都有义务帮助我们的孩子实现他们的梦想。

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up

I’ve been a mentor on Owala’s Ask An Expert forum for a little over half a year and I love it! Explaining some of the core science concepts to these elementary school students reminded me how much I loved science when I was younger and why I got into this field. Every once in a while, I even get stumped by the questions and need to go do some research to find the answer!

I just love the level of enthusiasm and excitement that I hear from the kids and parents on the forum. I remember doing some of these experiments myself when I was in high-school and that must have been my favorite time in school.

The other day, one student asked me what I was planning on doing after graduating. I asked him how old he was, and he told me he was 8. Isn’t that a little young to worry about post-college careers?! 🙂 He told me he once saw a TV show where a medical robot was actually operating on a patient. Ever since then, he’s been wanting to design medical robots when he grows up. I felt that his dream is so much bigger and more specific than any I had when I myself was 8 years old. The blazingly fast advance of science and technology makes it possible to inspire our kids to dream ever bigger. All of us, as parents, educators, scientists and technologists ought to work together to help our kids to fulfill these incredible aspirations.