Although she is debating between being a dancer, a scientist, a chef, or a combination of all three, Amari is an experimenter at heart — which makes EXPLO the perfect place for her.
I love experimenting. I like just taking things that I have questions about and putting them together. A lot of times I play with slime. It’s a fun thing to do but you also need to do a lot of experimenting to find the right ingredients that go with other ingredients. If you do one wrong thing it won’t be slime, it will be something else. I started experimenting with that a lot last year.
I think maybe I want to be a chef or a professional dancer, but also something to do with science — maybe a dance doctor. I would be a doctor just for dancers. I guess that’s sport medicine. I started dancing when I was two! I do ballet, jazz, contemporary, and musical theatre. I dance competitively, so I get to incorporate all of those together. I do a lot of group dances and we won first place overall at a three day competition recently.
I experiment a lot with dance, too. I am always trying to find a way to make hard dance moves easier, and finding a way to see other ways of doing things. I think that experimenting in dance and experimenting in science or cooking are all similar. You are trying to take what you have and change it — either to make it easier or make it a different color or different taste. I think experimenting is important to do because it means trying something new and trying something that you wouldn’t normally do. Maybe you could make a new discovery and could help others. This is why I like EXPLO — it’s not just experimenting with science but it’s experimenting with people, trying new things, and making discoveries.
Ally Marcino