Students from Fairmont high school in Durbanville, which is on a former farm with roots traceable back to the days of the Dutch East India Company, dropped in on the MTN Sciencentre in the not too distant past.
They were joined by students from Lotus River on the Cape Flats, St George's Grammar in Mowbray, a school which is about to celebrate its 160th birthday in 2008, and Klein Nederburg High (where rugby player and coach Chester Williams studied) dropped in to the MTN Sciencentre to brush up on their science skills in late November.
Why? They were going to join some very high-powered people at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, which was hosting the Ministerial Summit on Earth Observations.
Ministers and officials from over 100 governments and international organizations assembled in Cape Town, South Africa from 28 to 30 November 2007 to agree on a plan for building a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS, to monitor the health of our one and only planet.
Who knows - with the help of the MTN Sciencentre, maybe some of the students who came to us before heading off to the Ministerial Summit will one day be the science equivalent of Chester Williams!
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