Tik Tok, Time Runs Out

Our new exhibition is called Tik, Tok, Time is Running Out.

It's an interactive awareness exhibition on tik, the highly addictive drug (seen above at molecular level) that ruins so many young South African lives. Kindly sponsored by the Western Cape Education Department.

math holiday camp

Detlef Basel (above) and Eloise Nefdt go with the mobile science centre on Monday November 26 to a three-day maths and science camp at the Cape Academy of Mathematics and Science, the relatively new boarding school for promising high school students from across the province.

So they will be hanging out in the leafy green Cape Town suburb of Tokai, overlooked by Table Mountain. Who said science has to be tough?

Speakers at the camp include financial sector mathematician Dr Diane Wilcox, until recently a lecturer at the University of Cape Town, and participants such as Achmat Adams, Emmanuel Mushayikwa and Jonathan Clarke.

On day two, the kids do oceanography at Kalk Bay harbour and then hone their orienteering skills on a hike over the mountain back to Tokai. Maths and science projects are the main focus, however.

The programme is a joint effort by the University of Cape Town and the Western Cape education department. Organiser Naphtali Mokgalapa says a girls' camp is scheduled for next week.