Kids learn through play – Educational toys Truth be told – so do adults! What better way to learn than to tackle hands on tasks and actually learn new skills, rather than just reading up...
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Category: STEMinSA
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Our space agency (SANSA) was first launched on 9 December 2010 – but South Africa has a rich history of space tradition – dating as fat back...
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Innovation in STEM (iSTEM) To quote Dr Ron Beyers (previously interviewed in 2013): “May I introduce you to a new philosophical approach?” I give you the idea of iSTEM (Innovation in Sc...
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Introducing FIRST SA graduate: Heiko Kabutz The STEM blog of South Africa is all about STEM, STEMed, robotics and other industrial technology in South Africa. I have had the privilege of personall...
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ECSA is a statutory body The Engineering Profession Act (EPA), 46 of 2000 (which can be downloaded in PDF format here: EPA 46 of 2000), “…provides for the establishment of a juristic perso...
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The Industrial Automation Industry in South Africa Industrial Automation entails MANY different aspects: from field devices (instrumentation) to PLC programming; from PLC hardware to enterprise level ...
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2017 is gone and It’s silly season What gift to buy the STEM guy/girl in your life? Whether this guy/girl is your child, sibling or spouse – these gifts are sure to put a twinkle in thei...
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Some Linux background Although the latest versions of +Linux and +Ubuntu and others have GUIs (graphical user interfaces) where you can point and click with the mouse to navigate around the system and...
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What is UBUNTU … other than the Nguni term, roughly translated to English into “human kindness”? UBUNTU is the name given to the Linux based operating system and it is currently fu...
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2011 World Robotics Olympiad South Africa This YouTube video was originally shared by MikeRobotScience which is +Michael Ettershank ‘s YouTube channel. Michael’s organisation (previousl...
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