The Times, Thursday, October 11 2007

The national daily 'The Times', available only to the three million or so people who read The Sunday Times, has done a story on the teachers and students who have been coming to the MTN Sciencentre from six of our nine provinces recently.

If you don't want to slog through previous blog postings, we've recently had visitors from the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, the Free State, NorthWest, the Northern Cape and of course, the Western Cape!

If you'd like to read the story and admire the photo of Detlef Basel setting things on fire in front of a large crowd of students, go to:
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=583949

Visitors from the NorthWest province

50 students from the NorthWest province are coming to the MTN Sciencentre on Wednesday October 10 2007, in addition to our casual visitors and our outreach efforts.

This particular group of grade 11s are coming all the way from Hoerskool Skoonspruit in the Freemanville suburb of Klerksdorp, now also known as the city of Matlosana.

But we have local visitors too, we hasten to add. This week, locals are coming from various parts of the Mother City, including the private co-educational Christian secondary school Elkanah House in Table View, organised by teacher Liz Broad. (For more on the school, surf to http://www.elkanah.co.za/)

Others are arriving from further away in the Western Cape, such as Hoerskool Stellenbosch, with teacher Daleen Muller.

Both Hoerskool Schoonspruit from the North West Province and Hoerskool Stellenbosch from the Western Cape were provincial winners last month in a travel and tourism award organised by the National Business Institute, and both are coming here this week, so they seem to be thinking along the same lines, despite the hundreds of kilometres that separate them.