Keeping kids curious, engaged and learning!
PROGRAMME:
SATURDAY – 15 AUGUST 2015
10:00 – 13:00 KANO COMPUTERS – demonstration and available for purchase
It’s a computer and ANYONE can make it! A computer and coding kit for all ages, all over the world. Simple as Lego, powered by Pi. Make games, learn code, create the future. (www.kano.me)
10:00 – 13:00 DECONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP
Join our band of volunteers who will help you deconstruct an item of machinery or an appliance and help you identify the bits inside and what they do…. start to discover ‘how things work’!
Do you have anything broken to deconstruct? Please bring it along to the workshop. Note: As a safety precaution – NO microwaves and TV’s
11:00 – 12:00 AFRICA CODE WEEK Coding Workshop
Start your computer programming journey with SCRATCH. A simple drag and drop introduction to programming with stories, games & animations.
12:00 – 13:00 MAKE YOUR OWN RADIO
Using electric circuits build your own radio.
12:00 Visit the CAMERA OBSCURA
A giant walk-in camera with 360 degree views of the surrounding area. Seeing is believing.
13:00 SCIENCE SHOW – in the SAP Auditorium
14:00 – 15:00 TECHNO JUNK WORKSHOP
Let your imagination run wild. Get busy with glue guns and tech junk and create your own masterpiece.
15:30 Visit the CAMERA OBSCURA
A giant walk-in camera with 360 degree views of the surrounding area. Seeing is believing.
SUNDAY – 16 AUGUST 2015
10:00 – 13:00 DECONSTRUCTION WORKSHOP
Join our band of volunteers who will help you deconstruct an item of machinery or an appliance and help you identify the bits inside and what they do…. start to discover ‘how things work’!
12:00 – 13:00 WIRE-A-PLUG WORKSHOP
Learn to identify the live, neutral and earth wires and how they ‘fit into the plug’.
12:00 Visit the CAMERA OBSCURA
A giant walk-in camera with 360 degree views of the surrounding area. Seeing is believing.
13:00 SCIENCE SHOW – in the SAP Auditorium
14:00 – 15:00 TECHNO JUNK WORKSHOP
Let your imagination run wild. Get busy with glue guns and tech junk and create your own masterpiece.
15:00 AFRICA CODE WEEK Coding Workshop
Start your computer programming journey with SCRATCH. A simple drag and drop introduction to programming with stories, games & animations.
15:30 Visit the CAMERA OBSCURA
A giant walk-in camera with 360 degree views of the surrounding area. Seeing is believing.
What’s it all about?
We are hosting an informal Deconstruction Workshops on our main floor in the mornings – Kids will have the opportunity to take apart broken, kettles, toasters, printers, and other bits of machinery guided by an adult who has a passion for ‘how things work’. A cross-generational engagement such as this early in life is important to stimulate an interest in science and technology… most importantly a ‘hands-on’ activity keeping kids curious, engaged and learning!
This will be followed in the afternoon by Techno Junk Art workshops – Kids will be armed with glue guns and can use bits of the ‘deconstructed’ junk to set about making their own works of art. There is a great amount of research around the connection between art and science. Indeed to make a quick connection one just has to think of Da Vinci the artist and his contribution to science, as well as his wonderful inventions. Science and art naturally overlap. Both are a means of investigation. Getting kids involved in stretching their imagination and creating a piece of art, may well stimulate their talent for innovation and make them great inventors one day!