Expert Opinion: The Latest Scientists to Strike Lucky after Sharing a Review on SelectScience
Celebrating the community that makes SelectScience the world's leading source of opinion on laboratory products, technologies and services
17 Sept 2018
Scientists around the world have been celebrating after scooping big prizes for sharing laboratory product reviews on SelectScience®.
Product reviews make up an important part of the service SelectScience offers, enabling scientists to share expert advice and experience with peers around the world and also to provide manufacturers with valuable feedback. They are hugely influential and helpful to scientists, as these personal stories demonstrate. Writing a review for SelectScience is quick and simple — read on to find how it can be rewarding too!
It’s been a bumper year for lucky winners, with a series of exciting and engaging campaigns designed to thank scientists for sharing their valuable insight and experiences of technology with peers and manufacturers worldwide — all in the name of accelerating scientific progress.
Write a ReviewThe importance of sharing
Every two months, SelectScience holds a drawing which gives every reviewer over that period the chance to win a $400 (or equivalent currency) Amazon.co.uk Gift Card or iPad.
The latest winner was Dr. Grace Mak, Senior Scientific Officer with the Institute of Cancer Research, London, for her review of SARSTEDT AG & Co. KG’s tissue culture flasks. Grace is one of our Advanced Reviewers, having written nearly 10 lab product reviews for SelectScience, and we are delighted to have had a chance to recognize her desire to helping scientists make informed decisions.
As a scientist, it is really important to share our views on the products we use so as to help each other in the field. SelectScience provides us this platform!
Dr. Grace Mak Senior Scientific Officer, Institute of Cancer Research, London
The previous winner of a $400 gift card was Evan Moore, Research Associate at Battelle Memorial Institute, for his review of the BioTek Instruments, Inc. 405™ TS Microplate Washer. It was Evan’s first published review, but he is a regular user of SelectScience.
I use SelectScience because they can consolidate and present to me information relevant to my field that I might not have found on my own.
Evan Moore
Research Associate, Battelle Memorial Institute
The winner before that was Allison Caisey, Medical Laboratory Technologist with Rocky Mountain Analytical in Canada, for her glowing review of VistaLab Technologies’ Ovation® ESC Electronic Single Channel Pipettes. She was delighted to win and said she planned to buy a new camera with the gift card.
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Coffee, baseball, tote bags & more
Winning large prizes is great, but we want to reward as many people as possible. We also know that coffee powers laboratories just as much as electricity. With that in mind, we recently sent 50 $5 Starbucks gift cards to scientists who had left a review, as well as 35 exclusive SelectScience tote bags. Earlier this summer, we also offered a prize of a baseball jersey to kick off the baseball season in style.
We regularly run different competitions and prize draws to thank our reviewers and members for giving their time and insight. To receive these sent to your inbox, along with the latest in science news and technology, sign up for free to become a SelectScience member.
One Kennedy Space Center scientist even won flights to Pittcon!
For your chance to win on our next big prize drawing, write a review today for a product you have used!