Eskom Expo Nationals - GOLD & SILVER (2009)

The Cape Academy’s five ‘Gold Medal Projects’from the Cape Town Regional competition, went off to Pretoria to represent the school at the Eskom Expo National competition. They were: Thandoxolo & Haneem (Gardening with Rubble), C-G Barbery (Fish Food), Chevaan & Chad (Global cooling with SO2), Jenaide & Sixolisiwe (Water Hyacinth) and Joshua & Yaghia (Township Geyser).

At the Nationals, the competition was very stiff since hundreds of regional gold medalists from around South Africa were vying for only 50 available National Gold Medals.

The final outcome for the Cape Academy was: Joshua & Yaghia won gold medals and were awarded a note book laptop each, Jenaide & Sixolisiwe won Silver Medals, while Chevaan & Chad as well as Thanduxolo and Haneem won Bronze medals.

This was a noteworthy achievement for the Cape Academy since it was our first time to be entered into this competition at a national level, and to win medals there was like the proverbial “cherry on top”. We look forward to an even greater performance in 2010.

5 GOLD, 1 SILVER and 2 BRONZE MEDALS - REGIONALS

ESKOM CAPE TOWN EXPO FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS 2009 Cape Town Expo 2009: Cape Academy of Maths and Science The regional leg of the Western Cape Eskom EXPO for Young Scientist was held for the seniors at the MTN Science centre on the 19th and 20th August. Twenty three of our learners took part. In total there were 16 projects. This involved many weeks of hard work and late nights. The final outcome was well worth all the time spent. The learners did us proud. Two of our projects received a bronze medal, one received a silver medal and 5 projects were awarded gold. All awardees that received gold, 9 in total will compete at the National Expo in Pretoria in September. WE WISH THEM WELL! Project Description     Surname    Firstname Awards Plant Sciences Senior 204.07 Bottled Township gardens Sihawa  Asitandile Animal & Veterinary Science Senior 205.02 Cost Effective Fish Food Barbery Cavin GOLD Animal & Veterinary Science Senior 205.03 Organic Pesticide Coller Ryan Environmental Science Senior 206.06 Humidified Humans Lakay Dawynne Ruiters Marvyn BRONZE Environmental Science Senior 206.07 Gardening with Rubble Hanim Schroeder  Nguza Tanduxolo GOLD Environmental Science Senior 206.08 Water Hyacinth  Dlabantu Sixolisiwe Peters   Jenaide GOLD BEST DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Engineering – Mechanical Senior 212.01 Smart Bins  Harris Nabeelah Engineering – Mechanical Senior 212.02 Turbulance and Wingspan Dalvi Muyeen Energy Senior 215.08 Global Cooling with SO2 Levendal Chad  Patience  Chevan GOLD Energy Senior 215.09 Township Geyser FodorJoshua MitchellYaghia GOLD BEST INNOVATION AWARD, BEST ENERGY SAVING DEVICE Energy Senior 215.10 Energy Saving Device Jongile Amahle Energy Senior 215.11 Energy from sea water Reddy Adrian BRONZE Energy Senior 215.12 Water as a source of energy Kaleji Kaumba Recycled Materials Senior 223.02 Plastic as Thermal Insulation Jungbahadur Evashnee SILVER Food Sciences and Food Technology Senior 224.07 Which Yeast works best Volufu Anela Food Sciences and Food Technology Senior 224.08 Nutrional value of Organic foods Gier  Megan Ismail Asma

Joshua Fodor & Yaghia Mitchell - Gr 10 (GOLD) Energy - Township Geyser

Sixolisiwe Dlabantu & Jenaide Peters - Gr11 (SILVER) Environmental Science - Water Hyacinth