Suggested Questions for Presenters/Posters:

• How does your research relate to a conservation issues in general or to conservation issues in Hawaii?
• Does your research relate to natural resource protection in Hawaii or the world? If so, how?
• What subjects or specific lessons did you learn in school that helped you with this project?
• If you were to continue this project, what would you like to do next?
• Has your research influenced where you want to go to college (or graduate school), and what you might want to study in college?
• Do you think that your research would help government officials, legislators, or other scientists to develop new laws or regulations?
• How does your research relate to the global community of scientists (in other words, are there other people or places where a similar question is being asked or applies)?
• If you were king or queen of the world for a day, how would you use your research to help solve a global problem or issue?
• What are the variables that you looked at in your project? How did you measure them?
• Did you help design any new technologies (or use cutting-edge technologies) to complete your project?

Suggested Questions for Breakout sessions:

• How does your work/research relate to conservation issues in general or to conservation issues in Hawaii?
• Does your work/research relate to natural resource protection in Hawaii or the world? If so, how?
• What subjects or specific lessons did you learn in school that helped you the most to become a scientist?
• If you could go back to school, are there any subjects that you would take that you did not take, that would be beneficial to your career?
• How does your work/research relate to the global community of scientists (in other words, are there other people or places where a similar question is being asked applies)?
• If you were king or queen of the world for a day, how would you use your work/research to help solve a global problem or issue?
• Can you describe a typical day at work? Do you spend lots of time outside? In front of a computer? Teaching? Working with government officials? Travel?
• What did you want to be when you were growing up? And did that change as you got older?
• Did you have any mentors that helped you become a scientist? If so, please tell me about them or a really good memory you have of them.
• Did you have to go to college to get your job? If so, what degree (or degrees) did you earn to be able to do your job?
• Do you have to collaborate with people in other fields? If so, what do they do?