SciFest

This past week was extremely extremely busy. We had something big going on everyday. SciFest came to Grahamstown. SciFest is a huge science festival where people come from all over the world with science displays, workshops, and experiments for any and everyone to participate in. There are museums and all kinds of things to see and do. The target is mainly directed at students, but they have stuff for people of all ages on any science topic imaginable.  

To start the week we went to Victoria Girls Primary School, which is just down the road from Kingswood. This school along with Kingswood and a few other primary schools come together each year and put together little activities/stations for the students to participate in. The kids really loved it.

All of these activities were away from school so, I got dropped off with kids at different places while my teacher went to pick up more kids. They don't have big school buses just 15 passenger vans that the teachers drive. Not all the students would fit so I would do the different activities with the students while my teacher played taxi. One day I went to a museum and walked through exhibits on the solar system, dinosaurs, fossils, birds, butterflies, mammals, recycling, the greenhouse effect....What was cool about the dinosaur exhibit is it that they only displayed fossils and dinosaurs that were discovered locally in the Eastern Cape. One day I went with second grade to a workshop on the Water Cycle and anther day to a workshop on volcanos and origami. I found them interesting as well as the kids and learned a few things while we were having fun.