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‘Having the opportunity to collaborate with Sci-Enza’s team and observe the Centre’s community outreach programme has been a fulfilling experience,’ says Leticia Brown, a communications and media consultant in the Australian government’s Volunteer Program. Leticia has been sharing her marketing and communications experience with the team at Sci-Enza, the University of Pretoria’s Science Centre, for the past few months and will continue to do so until May this year.

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The Department of Physics hosted a highly successful postgraduate interdisciplinary course on solar energy and photosynthesis at the University of Pretoria during the October recess.

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To do his part in helping to conserve the South African fynbos, Mr Joey Hulbert, a PhD student at UP, has initiated a citizen science project to identify pathogens that may be killing some of these unique plants.

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Ruben Scharneck, a six-year-old boy from Pretoria who was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma cancer dreamt of experiencing a day as a normal Tukkie student. Staff from the University of Pretoria recently visited him at home to make this dream a reality.

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Images and video clips that looked like scenes from the disaster movie Twister were all over social media a few weeks ago when unexpected tornadoes hit the Gauteng province.

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The BLOODHOUND SSC Project is a global engineering adventure that uses the possibility of setting a 1 000 mph (1 600 km/h) world land speed record to inspire the next generation to become interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Not many children look forward to 67 minutes of science, but the children of Thohoyandou Primary School experienced the fun side of science this Mandela Day.

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Although cheetahs are the fastest running animals on land, Byron the cheetah sat down very calm and allowed children to pat and to stroke him during his visit to Sci-Enza. His visit formed part of Sci-Enza

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Around 600 schoolchildren from the surrounding communities experienced the magic of science during the national science week, many for the first time, when leading chemical company BASF held the Kids’ Lab at the University of Pretoria. The programme

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Or should we rather ask:"How well do you know your campus?" Or: "How fit are you?"

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Dating and Biotechnology? Several postgraduate students from tertiary institutes in Pretoria encountered this unlikely combination at Sci-Enza recently.

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From a learner struggling with science to a science communicator who was selected as the only South African to take part in the "Profession Culture Programme": a two month internship (from end of August this year) at the Cit

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Students and staff were surprised when they were welcomed to the first day of the academic year, on Valentines day, with heart shaped invitations to a public talk about love.

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In celebration of Women's month, cleaning staff at the University of Pretoria were invited to an electricity workshop at Sci-Enza. Approximately thirty ladies who work in science and engineering buildings on campus had the opportunity to attend this event

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On Sunday, 18th July 2010, South Africa celebrated its second International Nelson Mandela Day. To mark these 67 minutes of giving, we at Sci-Enza thought it was time to get down and dirty for our fellow South Africans.

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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." Earth day, an environmental awareness day founded by US Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970 is celebrated on 22 April across the world.

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On the 29th of October Ms Puleng Tsie and Ms Irene van Nugturen, two interns at Sci-Enza, hosted a Media Round Table (MRT) discussion at Sci-Enza.

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Sci-Enza hosted a

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