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The Young Engineers and Scientists of Africa (YESA) is an initiative aimed at increasing the pipeline Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Innovation (STEMI). YESA interventions operate from Grades 0-12 and are designed to supplement the national curriculum in a stimulating and challenging environment to promote creativity and innovation. All interventions are aimed at addressing the gaps in the developmental stages of providing support to learners through a broad range of activities.
Key partners include:-
Coming soon
Target = 1 000 000 learners in 10 years and at least 2 South African World Champions for DZC in this time frame.
As a developing country with substantial infrastructural development South Africa needs to provide opportunities for nurturing technology, information and innovation leadership through interaction with future technologies today. This can be achieved by focusing on human capital development through the deployment of programs like Destination Zero Carbon to assist future leaders in conceptualising new ideas in the classroom and extending their knowledge, skills, attitudes and values of green technologies.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 07:48 | |
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What a way to start the day. This is a 1 in 2200 student who came through the My YESA Passport system and I am proud to share it with you. It makes the past 185 days working on the system worthwhile and demonstrates the power of education over teaching.
I am not sure where he is in Africa but does it matter. I believe that this is just the tip of the iceberg and our Titanic is NOT GOING TO SINK.
Enjoy the read.
QUESTION: -To work with the weather what subjects ddo i need RESPONSE : - Pure Mathematics, Earth Science and Computer Science will all be put to good use along with a good command of your languages. I would also include Physical Science if possible. 2012-05-10 04:41:36
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 15:03 | |
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I woud like to share this story relating to Ask Prof ROn on MXit. When I received the question (5-5-12) I could not ignore it as it was eating at me. Under normal circumstances I would have ignored it but I felt I had to respond. This lead to the second question yesterday which I answered two days later.
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Friday, 11 May 2012 11:15 | Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 07:51 | |
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Some interesting questions from the past week. Deciphering the questions is one thing which one has to bear in mind as learners are not using their mother tongue. One has to often make assumptions as to what they are actually asking.
The second problem is that of responding in time. Many learners are very frustrated that their questions are not being answered Questions responded to:-
Sunday, 29 April 2012 16:33 | |
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Ask Prof Ron has now passed the 2000 questions at an average of over 12 per day since October 2011. Currently users are viewing an average of over 14 pages per user on the portal with over 500 000 pages served up for the month of April.
The following is a summary of the responses that have been catalogued so far. It makes for interesting reading regarding the type of services that are being offered in terms of meeting the needs of the users.
The top 4 show an interesting trend. |
