That was the Week That Was

Last week was a busy time at the MTN Sciencentre.

On Monday, 28 children came from Eagerton primary school as well as 50 youngsters from the grade R class at Wynberg Boys' pre-primary school in the suburb of the same name. Nearing the other end of their schooling career were 45 grade 11 students from New Orleans. (The secondary school in Paarl, not the city in the USA).

On Tuesday, we took care of 160 grade 5 pupils from Fairview Primary in Grassy Park. In addition, Eloise Nefdt and Detlef Basel took the mellow yellow mobile science lab to the Cape Peninsula University of Technology premises in Wellington in the Cape Winelands.

Last Wednesday we were visited by many, many grade sevens: 117 from Sunridge Primary in Knysna, 121 from Swartland Primary in Malmesbury and 54 from Victoria Primary. That's not to mention 55 grade 10 students, according to Carmen Solomons of the Sciencentre, from Malibu Sekondêre Skool in Malibu Village, which (we think) is near Blue Downs.

On Thursday, we did the Cape Flats: we introduced 160 grade 6 students from Turfhall Primary in Athlone to the wonders of science as well as 120 learners from grades four, five and six from Portlands Primary in Mitchell's Plain.

In addition, fourteen grade 10 learners from Holy Cross Convent High School in Brooklyn attended a Sci-Bridge workshop. We also coped with 23 grade 11 students from Immaculata Senior School in Wynberg.

Friday was a relatively relaxed day - 17 grade four students from Applewood Preparatory School, an independent Christian boarding school from the Elgin Valley. (Naturally, this list does not include individual visitors and lots of other programmes that we run.)

And this week, we do it all over again.