AIMS South Africa Newsletter February 2019
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AIMS South Africa Annual Report 2017-2018
We are pleased to announce that the AIMS South Africa Annual Report for 2017-2018 has been released and isavailable to view and download. Please click here.
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Research at AIMSSEC
The following research papers were conducted on AIMSSEC’s work: A paper delivered by Dr Jennie Golding presented at the AFRICME5 conference in Dar Es Salam In August 2018. Jennie facilitated three times on our MT course. She is an Associate Professor at University College London Institute of Education which has been Number 1 for Education
Professional development for teacher educators and teachers in Uganda
The AIMSSEC Mathematical Thinking Course was held at Makerere University from 2 to 12 January 2019 for 52 mathematics teachers and teacher educators, thirty-eight from Uganda, eight from Tanzania, three from Kenya and three from Rwanda, providing an introduction to inquiry-based learning. Through generous donations, mainly from Dr Marjorie Batchelor and her family in honour of,
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SALT plays key role in the global hunt for Dark Energy
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), one of the largest optical telescopes in the Southern Hemisphere, has played an important role as part of the international Dark Energy Survey’s (DES, https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/) quest to pin down dark energy, the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe. As part of the hunt, SALT conducted follow-up spectroscopy
AIMSWIS Mentoring Event
The Next Einstein is Female! She needs a support system and a conducive environment in order to flourish’. It was under these auspices that the AIMS Women in STEM (AIMSWIS) initiative held a mentoring event on 10 November 2018. The thirty-five women in attendance (including 19 current students, 6 alumni, 5 ESMT students, 2 researchers,
Data Science Intensive Program
The 8-week DSI program started on 27 August and finished on 19 October 2018. The DSI is a new program in which 16 participants tackle four consecutive real-world data science projects in teams and is primarily funded by the SA-DISCnet grant which is a collaborative data science training network between AIMS South Africa and universities
AIMS students will help to shape Africa’s future
Cape Town, 14 November 2018: AIMS South Africa acknowledged the success of its seventh group of January intake students as well as the second group of students who have successfully completed the AIMS-ESMT Industry Immersion Programme (IIP) at a special Recognition of Achievement Ceremony held at its centre in Muizenberg. Fifteen students (including 13 South Africans)
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