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<\/a>I was so lucky the other day \u2013 my Dad took me to visit the big science centre in Jozi. It\u2019s called Sci-Bono Discovery Centre<\/a> and it\u2019s actually in Newtown. I\u2019d been bugging our teacher to take our class for ages, but somehow there never seems to be the time and it\u2019s quite a mission to organise outings, I know that.<\/p>\nDad had the day off and decided we should do something interesting. We invited Mum to come along too, but she said she\u2019d rather watch paint dry that have to fiddle with all sorts of sciency stuff. She missed out big time!<\/p>\n
Sjoe! That place is seriously cool. There is so much stuff to do. I learnt such a lot just playing with the exhibits. Some of the stuff Dad had to explain to me, and if he did not know, there were very helpful people who you could ask.<\/p>\n
We also went to a science show called “Bloodhound: an engineering adventure”. Wow! That was beyond awesome. Even Dad was impressed.<\/p>\n
They told us about a project that is happening in Hakskeenpan in the Northern Cape. The BLOODHOUND SSC<\/a>. You are probably wondering what SSC stands for\u2026 Supersonic car. This car, that looks more like a rocket, is supersonic because it is designed to go the speed of sound \u2013 in this case just over 1600 km per hour. But even though it looks like a rocket, it\u2019s a car because it has four wheels and the person driving it has full control. Obviously \u2013 not just anybody can drive such a creation.<\/p>\n What\u2019s really cool about this project, apart from the fact that they are going to drive so fast, is that the people who are in charge of the whole thing are very keen to create an interest in maths, science and engineering amongst the kids in South Africa. They also have very awesome workshops that they do in schools.<\/p>\n The science show was all about rockets and going fast. Things whizzed, fizzed and banged. It was wonderful.<\/p>\n Anybody can go to Sci-Bono \u2013 it does not cost that much to get in \u2013 less than the movies and its much more fun. And did you know there are actually lots of science centres in South Africa \u2013 all over the place. They are not all as big as Sci-Bono but I bet they are really cool too.<\/p>\n Have fun.<\/p>\n Sibo<\/p>\n Visit this website if you want to find out more about the BLOODHOUND SSC\u00a0 projec<\/a>t, or do some cool stuff at home or at school .<\/p>\n This picture is at Sci-Bono Discovery Centre. This is a model replica of the Bloodhound car. Cool hey!<\/p>\n By the way – if you want to know more about science centres you can visit the SAASTEC <\/a>website or you can read the latest newsletter<\/a> about all the exciting things that go on at the science centres around South Africa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was so lucky the other day \u2013 my Dad took me to visit the big science centre in Jozi. It\u2019s called Sci-Bono Discovery Centre and it\u2019s actually in Newtown. I\u2019d been bugging our teacher to take our class for ages, but somehow there never seems to be the time and it\u2019s quite a … Continue reading “Science Centres and rocket cars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bloodhound\"](\"http:\/\/blog.sibo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Bloodhound-1024x573.png\")
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