Students developed videos for ELIM church

Posted on October 21, 2020

JCP students videos for ELIM church on their outreach projects

Students make masks for Nelson Mandela Community Youth Centre

Posted on June 04, 2020

Emile Asari, Yashvir Chetty, Reagan Pramraj and Sauvarn Singh, second-year civil engineering students in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, made face masks for people who need them due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They produced 1 000 masks, each group member...

Visors ready for Tsako Thabo Secondary School to use when they open

Posted on June 04, 2020

Two students from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) made sanitisers and applied 3D printing to make visors for Tsako Thabo Secondary School to use when schools reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic.

UP student projects help local schools kick-start online teaching and learning amid COVID-19 lockdown

Posted on May 08, 2020

A collaboration between local schools and students at UP’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology is finding innovative ways to ensure that teaching and learning continue online while the country is in lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Student uses 3D printing process to produce face visors for Leboang Health Care in Soshanguve

Posted on April 17, 2020

Marco Matthis, a second-year Computer Engineering student who is enrolled for the compulsory undergraduate module Community-based project (code JCP), applied the 3D printing process to make face visors, and a sewing machine to produce surgical masks. The first batch was delivered to Lebogang...

Students develop an app for Tshwane Homelessness Forum

Posted on April 17, 2020

Two students, David de Villiers and Kian Strydom, who are enrolled in Community-based learning (code: JCP), a compulsory course of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, have assisted PEN NGO shelters and communities across Tshwane by developing an app for use...

JCP students acknowledged for their hard work

Posted on April 07, 2019

During the annual prize-giving ceremony students involved in the Community-based Project Module were acknowledged for their hard work during 2018.

Robyn Ingle-Möller from Lory Park Animal and Owl Sanctuary received special award from the JCP module

Posted on April 07, 2019

Robyn Ingle-Möller from Lory Park Animal and Owl Sanctuary was specially acknowledged for being involved in the module for the past 12 years. She mentored more than 1200 students.