The Proteins Zone had far fewer students registering than expected, so the number of live chats and questions in the zone was below average. We try to allocate schools evenly, like putting both schools new and old to the project in each zone, to try an even out expected turnout. Sometimes this just doesn’t work, and we are working on ways to improve this. However, the students that did take part in the Proteins Zone asked some exceptionally high quality questions, there was a focus on proteins and the scientists’ careers and work.  All the scientists in the zone were engaged with the event, particularly Jo, who wrote 40% of the scientists’ lines of live chat even though she was evicted second.

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