Mahumm Ghaffar

Mahuum Ghaffar
Let’s Talk Science Volunteer at MUN-Grenfell campus

“Teaching science especially to kids is a lot more fun because the spark of curiosity and happiness in their eyes after completing a task is a delight to watch.”


Time volunteering with Let’s Talk Science: I started in January 2020


Area of study: PhD candidate in Theoretical Subatomic Physics
Inspirational Moment: Whenever I volunteer and kids ask questions and show interest in the assigned activity makes me realize that I am playing some role in developing their interest in Science. That is always a moment of inspiration for me.


Favourite Let’s Talk Science volunteering activity: That was an in-person activity where we took the fingerprints of third grade students with the help of a sticky tape and ink pad.


Why do you volunteer with Let’s Talk Science? I love talking about science and would like to join academia after my PhD. Teaching science especially to kids is a lot more fun because the spark of curiosity and happiness in their eyes after completing a task is a delight to watch.


Fun fact: Being a kid I always wanted to be an astronaut and even wrote a letter to Dr. Sally K. Ride (a physicist and America’s first woman astronaut in space). Luckily she replied back to my letter which motivated me so much that I decided to get a PhD degree in Physics like her.