Win at Sasol Scifest - scholarships for quizz winners
 Sasol
SciFest and Rhodes University will offer three high school learners the
opportunity to win a scholarship entitling them to free tuition for the first
year of study, in the sciences, at Rhodes University. But it will be no walkover
as the three learners need to earn their prize as the winning team of the Sasol
SciFest Senior Schools Quiz to be held at the Festival in
Grahamstown next week.
The Schools' Quiz is a popular event at Sasol SciFest and has been on the
programme since the Festival's inception in 1997. And it's not just the seniors
who stand a chance of winning. Participants in the Junior High School Quiz can
win incredible prizes including books for their school and themselves.
The quizzes are great fun, exciting and informative. Questions are divided
into categories such as Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Computer
Science and will feature some rather "exotic" rounds of questions
which usually includes an "'ologies" round. For example, "What
does
a palaeontologist do?" or "What is a limnologist?" Questions are
sourced from the school science/biology syllabi, main authorities such as
"Encyclopaedia Britannica" and the "McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of
Science and Technology", and various textbooks. Other questions are just
ordinary
science general knowledge, with many Grahamstown school teachers and university
academics kindly suppling other questions. Posters, exhibits and lectures at
Sasol SciFest will also feature strongly in the selection of questions - so pay
close attention!
Each quiz is comprised of two rounds: a Preliminary Round, in which a maximum
of three teams from any school may take part, and a Final Round involving the
top four teams from the previous round, but in which only one team from any one
school may enter. Schools may enter three teams
per age category at a minimal cost for R5-00 per team. Simply decide on the
people making up your teams (three to a team), and register each team, and the
names of the individual team members, before the Preliminaries.
Sasol SciFest 2003 takes place in Grahamstown from 26 March - 1 April with
the quizzes planned for Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 March. For an information
sheet about the quizzes or more information about Sasol SciFest 2003, contact
the Festival Office on (046) 603 1106 or visit the
web site at http://www.scifest.org.za.
Good luck!
For more information contact Eve Cambray on 046 603 1106 or e-mail eve.cambray@foundation.org.za.
JPGS: union.jpg Winners of the 2002 Senior School Quiz was the team from
Union High School,
Graaff-Reinet seen here with Rhodes University Dean of Science, Professor Pat
Terry (far left).
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