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Professor Shaheed Hartley

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Professor Shaheed Hartley

Charlton de Morney (Principal: Sir Lowry’s Pass PS), Adam Jantjies (WCED Infrastructure), Myrtle February (Chairperson Garden Cities Archway Foundation), Prof Shaheed Hartley (Advancing Knowledge NPC), John Matthews (Group CEO Garden Cities).

Seven new STEM teaching and learning centres open at primary and high schools in the Western Cape

The facilities serve to assist not just the schools but also the STEM subject advisors

Advancing Knowledge NPC 2024 Science Club Competition in the Cape winelands 

Spectacular science experiments, hair-raising demonstrations and awe-inspiring science shows

AK NPC: Training science club practitioners at West Coast schools

To date 12 brand new Science Teaching and Learning Centres have been built at five primary and seven secondary West Coast schools

Three new Science Teaching & Learning Centres open to support STEM education at Cape Town schools

More than 100 TLCs have been constructed at Western Cape schools since 2011

Advancing Inquiry-Based Natural Sciences in the Amathole East Education District of the Eastern Cape

‘These are things we can directly use in our science lessons, which makes me excited to plan my lessons for the learners’

Hands-on inquiry-based training offered to grades 8 and 9 natural sciences teachers 

They learned how to perform simple experiments that can easily be transferred to their daily natural science classes

Advancing Knowledge NPC’s inquiry-based science education training for InterSen (grades 4-7) Natural Science teachers

The first step is walking teachers through the inquiry-based approach to teaching science and improving their pedagogic skills and content knowledge

Delft Technical High School’s newly constructed Science Teaching and Learning Centre.

Opening of new Science Teaching and Learning Centre at Delft Technical High School in the Western Cape

The WCED School of Choice Project in this instance provided the lion’s share of the funding

Keenan Rasmus, Gillian O’Reilly, Pieter Kirsten (Science Subject Advisors), Professor Shaheed Hartley (Head: AK NPC), Rousseau Mercuur (ECKED Curriculum Head), Dr Gillian Arendse (iThemba Labs).

Science empowerment in Eden and Central Karoo Education District of the Western Cape

Reinvigorating hands-on practical and experimental work by making use of elementary everyday products to teach chemistry, physics, life sciences and astronomy

Advancing Knowledge NPC’S Mini-Conventions: Celebrating Women in Mathematics

The project allows girl learners to interact with successful role models who utilise maths in their careers