What was your favorite experience as a child and did this affect your career in Science?

Question: What was your favorite experience as a child and did this affect your career in Science?
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Asked by thejellybabies to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: About.
- David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:
  
  When I was 7, I lived in Chile for a year. In the summer we drove south from Santiago, and all I remember was seeing one volcanic cone after another. Then we got to Villarrica, which had erupted the year before. The road was still blocked with the debris from the eruption.. I was hooked – and this passion stayed with me. After school I went to uni to study geology, and three years later started research on volcanoes. I went back to Villarrica to work on it about thirty years after I had first been. Amazing! So yes – you can follow your childhood dreams into a career in science.
- Luna Munoz answered on 23 Mar 2011:
  
  One of my favourite experiences as a child was going to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and learning about astronomy. They have the largest radio telescope and it’s incredible. I suppose it was my first exposure to science where I realized that people could study science as a career! I didn’t end up studying astronomy, but I did find that I liked the practical aspects of science from my experience.

Question: What was your favorite experience as a child and did this affect your career in Science?