About 30 teenaged students from the Geos Cape Town Language Centre, which specialises in teaching English as a foreign language, kicked off the 2008 season to the MTN Sciencentre. The visit on January 18, according to administrator Jaci Mostert (above), included foreign students from the rest of Africa, South America and Europe. ''They really enjoyed the camera obscura, the display on biodiversity in the Western Cape and the walk-on map of southern africa which doubles as a carpet,'' she said.
Then on January 21, we were visited by science teacher Weedaad Nasiep (see above) and her 55 students from grade 11 at COSAT High School, situated on the Good Hope campus of False Bay college in the township of Khayelitsha.
''We regularly take our kids there and the MTN Sciencentre also invites our kids there for things like science week,'' said acting principal Phadiela Cooper, above. Although the school averaged 52% for science higher grade matriculants in December, the students did achieve a 100% overall matric pass rate Phadiela Cooper says she may track down a few matriculants who have yet to hear if they've been accepted for further studies in order to take advantage of the MTN Sciencentre training programme.
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