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The winners of the 2012 AstroQuiz for grade seven learners are, from the left: Hans-Peter Fechter, Inge-Mari Alberts, Zahn Rijnen and Chris-Jasper Jooste from Laerskool Lynnwood in Pretoria. They won several prizes including trophies, laptop computers and a telescope for their school in this competition, organised by SAASTA.
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Ten teams of young learners from all around South Africa met in Centurion on Friday 26 October to battle it out in the eighth round of the Astronomy Quiz finals. The finals were hosted, funded and coordinated by SAASTA.
The overall winner was Laerskool Lynnwood, a Gauteng team from Pretoria that competed in four gruelling eliminating rounds at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Johannesburg. The team won an eight-inch mounted telescope with accessories for their school, laptop computers and trophies for each member.
In the second place was Brebner Primary School in the Free State and third was Kimberley Junior School from the Northern Cape.
Since the first-ever competition in 2005 at the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Johannesburg, the annual Astronomy Quiz has become a favourite on the school science calendar, with more than 3 200 learners from 817 schools participating in 2012.
The teams of grade seven learners competed in four eliminating rounds of the competition at 10 centres: Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) and SciBono Discovery Centre in Gauteng; Boyden Science Centre in the Free State; the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) in the Western Cape and the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) in the Northern Cape, Unizul Science Centre in KwaZulu-Natal, Mondi Science Centre in Mpumalanga, North West University's Mafikeng Science Centre in North West, the University of Limpopo's Science Centre and the Grahamstown Foundation (SciFest Africa) in the Eastern Cape.
HartRAO: AB Xuma Primary School (Gauteng)
Boyden Observatory: Brebner Primary School (Free State)
Unizul Science Centre: Mthunzini Primary School (KwaZulu-Natal)
North West Science Centre: Maggie's Millenium Primary School (North West Province)
Mondi Science Centre: Diepgezet Primary School (Mpumalanga)
SALT: Kimberley Junior School (Northern Cape)
SAAO: Observatory Junior School (Western Cape)
Sci-Bono: Laerskool Lynnwood (Gauteng)
University of Limpopo Science Centre: Bashasha Primary School (Limpopo)
SciFest Africa: Graeme College (Eastern Cape)
By Ina Roos, SAASTA
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