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Laerskool Lynnwood wins nail-biting finals of the 2012 AstroQuiz
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. Eliminating rounds 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. The finalists in the AstroQuiz 2012 competition were ... HartRAO: AB Xuma Primary School (Gauteng) By Ina Roos, SAASTA |
