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This is a video clip of a Rare Endangered Cape Parrot. It was filmed in Hogsback Eastern Cape. These birds are the only parrot endemic to South Africa. The vidio clip is of a Cape parrot nesting site. Although the bird is small, the parrot call is clearly audiable.
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Soap-box derby (animoto)

The Sunset Shows

The Sunset Shows are very interesting and are usually different each time. This time we got told about the different forms of substances and we got shown two examples of them.

First we got shown Dry Ice, you would never guess what dry ice is if you don’t know. Dry ice is a solid form of carbon dioxide and it has a temperature of –78.5 degrees Celsius! Dry ice is not as hard as ice and is white in colour; it also dissolves into the air very quickly.

The second example we got shown was liquid nitrogen. Liquid nitrogen is a liquid form of nitrogen (which you can easily tell from the name). Liquid nitrogen has a temperature of –196 degrees Celsius. At the Sunset Shows a few things got put in Liquid nitrogen including a marshmallow, a banana and a balloon. The marshmallow was soft before it went in and hard & crumbly when it came out. The banana was soft when it went in and was hard when it came out. The balloon was big when it went in and it looked like it had very little air in it when it came out but t very quickly got its size back.

The Sunset shows are very enjoyable and are a nice way to spend the late afternoon(s).

Learning about satellites

Fun and learning for all Ages

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Learning about satellites

Learning about satellites

The satellite workshop was truly amazing. We learned lots of new information, and how important the satellites are. The human being has become totally dependent on satellites.
The military, weather station, maps of the world, the astronomists would be so much behind if they would not have satellites.
Smaller satellites are about 150cm3 big, the biggest existing satellite is about 30m3 big and weighs 7t, the International Space Station. It costs about 300-400 million US$ to make a satellite and send it to space.
The TT&C, Satellite Tracking Telemetry and Command, checks that there are no problems with the satellite before it gets send to space by a shuttle.
There are three types of satellite:
LEO(Low Earth Orbit): 160 to 1000 km above Earth. It travels 28162km/h. It observes Earth.
MEO(Medium Earth Orbit): It travels iv 4-6 hours around the Earth. It also observes Earth. The speed is changing.
GEO: Circles the Earth in 24 hours. It travels the same direction as the rotation of Earth. It travels in 390000km/h. It is a Communication Satellite.
The South African Satellite is called Sumbandilasat, which stands for Pathfinder. It is an Earth Observation Satellite.
3-4 year old satellites get send to sun and blow up. It is cheaper than getting it back to Earth.
Interesting website: www.csir.co.za

Soap-box Darby

The soap-box Derby is designing, building and racing a go-cart. You have to design a nice go-cart so that it can be comfortable and fast at the same time. All the go-carts were unique in their own ways. It was lots of fun to do the soap-box Derby plus we won great prizes.

Bird Ringing

Bird ringing Workshop

The bird ringing workshop was at the botanical garden.

did you know? that the Japanese invented the mist net for catching birds to eat. It was made of Japanese women's' hair.

They also followed a stalk for 8 years, with a satellite ring(they cannot do this for all birds because it is very expensive.

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Caring for sick birds

This is a Workshop by Libby Sharwood of SAMREC (SA Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre) Thank you Libby, you did an excellent job of explaining, sharing and educating us.

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This is Jades story, she's the seven year old in the pictures (Turning 8 in July).

The lady in the photo above is holding a fish and she showing us how they put vitamins inside the gills of the fish. She is also showing us how top hold the fish to feed it to the penguin. When you feed the penguins you have to be careful, because the penguins say thank you afterwards by biting your arm.

In the photo above, Charne and Stacey are feeding a Gannet bird with an intravenous drip. We learnt hold the bird and how to find the right hole in its mouth for the tube.

Above is me and Ian feeding a penguin. Oh by the way these birds are not alive. I am wearing glasses to protect my eyes and Ian is wearing gloves to protect him from bites.

In the photo above the lady is showing us how to feed the penguins with the syringe, tube and electrolyte mix. She also showed us how to pinch the tube, so that the food doesn't get stucked up again, when you are finished feeding the bird.

In the photo above the lady is explaining to us how to wash birds that have been covered in polluted oil. We must help the penguins by washing the oil off them and then looking after them until they are better. We took a feather each and dipped it in oil and then we dipped it in water and a whole lot of different solutions. The blue blue bucket at the end worked the best. In that bucket there was a bio-oil mix.

Brilliant low cost way of demonstrating Sound Waves

This is an easy, entertaining and very engaging way of explaining sound waves, using straws. The straws have been joined together and then twisted. This was used to demonstrate the crest and trough of the wave, and then the frequency. This workshop was conducted by Ashop Rupner, he has conducted these 'activity' workshops for the past 15 years. He makes over 200 different inexpensive science toys. Website details to follow. www.arvindguptatoys.com

Science Through Toys

The Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) presents a workshop on Science through Toys. Right now it's science through noisey toys as the kids experiment with different size straws. they are also playing with water, straws and the different pitches and noises.
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Scifest 2008

Mixed Sci Experiments at school

Gaylin

I am a life Long Learner and I am facilitating the younger members of this Blog. I love the Science Festival. There are so many wonderful exhibits, workshops, talk shops and movies. In the past I have enjoyed workshops that range from Global warming innovative plays, to MTN Science Centre exhibitions, to laser shows, astronomy workshops, glass blowing, Steve Shermans amazing brain teasers (For all ages) the Sunset shows, its all so much to take in.

This year some of the children will have their first SciFest experience, I am really looking forward to their interpretation.

We'll be twittering from the festival, taking pictures and gathering data. Some info will be posted live. After the festival, we'll spend some time putting presentations together on different aspects, which we'll post in slide shows to this blog.

Fossil 'makes T-Rex look feeble': Sci-Tech: News: News24 Fossil 'makes T-Rex look feeble'

• Fossil 'makes T-Rex look feeble': Sci-Tech: News: News24 Fossil 'makes T-Rex look feeble'

  A giant fossil (approx. 147 million years old) has been discovered of a creature that make the T-rex look like a baby. It's a 15 m long marine reptile and it's jaws are so strong, it could crush a Hummer.

  tags: Science, Interest

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Stacey

I'm realy looking forward to doing all the fun workshops and stuff we are going to learn at the science festival.

Kalilo

I hope the weather is good enough for the workshops

Chane'

I am looking forward to everything we are going to do at the science festival and camping with my friends.

Ian

I'm sure we will have lots of fun at the Science festival

Eartha

I'm looking forward to the soap box darby at the Science Festival

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