Brimming with boffins

Now this is more like it! The People's Post, a widely-read community weekly newspaper published by NasPers, has an article on the recent Eskom Expo for Young Scientists, which was held at the MTN Sciencentre.

The headline: 'Suburbs brimming with boffins'. It mentions, among others, Naadirah Mukadam and Sameera Mohamed of Pinelands High, some of the 20-or-so winners who are going on to the nationals in Pretoria in September.

Stephanus Spammer of Wynberg Boys High and Westerford's Alex Erlank and Shaun Irwin are also mentioned. As is the MTN Sciencentre.

Brimming with boffins ... we like it.

Geekathon

And a big thank you goes to the fabulous young ladies from Herzlia, Jessica Puterman, 14, and Candice Schneider, 15, who appeared in The Atlantic Sun newspaper on Thursday August 23 with some of their work from the recent Eskom Expo for Young Scientists.

Jessica and Candice did their project on the new and very important vaccine for cervical cancer. It's amazing to see how research into vaccines has suddenly taken off again. There hasn't been this level of interest since the 1950s, when Jonas Salk became an international hero for developing a vaccine against the dreaded disease of polio.

Although we're not 100% convinced of the headline ''Kids flock to geekathon'' in The Atlantic Sun, we're delighted that reporter Megan Baadjies wrote about how popular the Expo was.

Famous again

Well done to all the boys from the Paul Roos Gymnasium, who came all the way from Stellenbosch to compete in the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists recently.

The Expo was held for the first time at the MTN Sciencentre.

And students Harish Vallabhapurapu and Timo Goosen (seen here), Jancke Eygelaar and Pieter Jansen van Rensburg, all from Paul Roos, appeared in photographs in the 'nuus' section of the weekly newspaper The Bolander on Wednesday August 22.

Mention was also made of Zimasa Combined School in Langa, which competed for the first time, and the hard work done by the judging panel, led by Peter Davidson, an information technology teacher from Fish Hoek.

We were particularly fond of the headline 'Young Scientsts go for gold, silver and bronze at MTN Expo.' Baie dankie, Bolander!