Monday Paper

'UCT members test young scientists'

That's the headline in the Monday Paper, the newspaper distributed by the University of Cape Town, on Monday (naturally), the 27th of August.

''UCT staff played a large role in the 25th annual Eskom Expo for Young Scientists held at the MTN Sciencentre in Century City,'' it begins.

Author Myolisi Gophe goes on to say ''About 650 grade six to 12 students, from 50 schools across the Cape Town Metropole trekked (actually, he wrote trecked, but I can't bear badly-spelt blogs, can you?) to the expo from 14 to 16 August.''

''About 60 judges, 17 of them staff and post-graduate students from UCT, selected winners of the gold, silver and bronze medals. The UCT members included mechanical engineering lecturer Brandon Reed, Norman Davies, manager of the Schools Development Unit, electrical engineering lecturer Samuel Ginsberg, Ruben Govender, a postgraduate student in mechanical engineering, and Renee Toerien and Gillian Sheridan, both from chemical engineering.

The 23 gold medalists will go on to compete at a national competition later in the year.''