SAAO Bursaries
SAAO 200 Bursaries
As part of its 200 year anniversary celebrations, the SAAO is giving away ten R 20,000 bursaries to university students from the Northern Cape. These bursaries are intended to assist with needs like text books, travelling, food, computers and educational equipment.
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Teaching Earth and Beyond Competition
As part of its 200 year anniversary celebrations the SAAO invites all teachers to enter our Teaching Earth and Beyond competition. The aim is to showcase teachers who have implemented innovative ways of bringing this important field across to their learners.
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Since the building and commissioning of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), Sutherland has become an interesting destination among tourists who are looking for edutainment. The town’s accommodation and restaurant offering has also developed tremendously to meet tourist’s needs. This has contributed to a steady number of tourists finding Sutherland a comfortable destination. However, many tourists think once one has seen the Observatory or the recently built and working planetarium in town, there is not much else to do. As a result, they might not find Sutherland worth a stop for a short visit, or stay just for one night. Against this view, as part of its 200 year anniversary celebrations the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is running a competition to encourage the youth in Sutherland to come up with an itinerary that showcases Sutherland as worth more than an excursion to a potential tourist who might be keen to spend more than one day in this small town.
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As part of its 200 year anniversary celebrations the South African Astronomical Observatory hereby invites all foundation phase learners, grades R to 3, to enter our AstroArt competition. Learners can send in an A4 drawing of anything Astronomy related. It can be the moon with its craters, the solar system, planets, galaxies, earth or the sun – whatever they know to be Astronomy.
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