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SuperScientists
Real people, real superpowers

Real People, Real SuperPowers

Inspiring the Next Generation

 
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SuperScientists- 60+ and growing

SuperScientists
Dendron - Gentry Patrick
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Impisi - Benson Kanyembo
Ember - Melinda Adams
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ABOUT

Real scientists, real people, have amazing powers! They aRE SOLVING THE QUESTIONS OF TODAY AND CREATING the TECHNOLOGIES OF TOMORROW.

SuperScientists was developed to inspire young people and help them see themselves in the faces and life stories of scientists working today.

SuperScientists makes learning hands-on and fun, while providing rich information about science and scientists to people young and old.

a project of the South African npo CodeMakers, young people MAKE amazing things when inspired

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View fullsize Love putting together slides that show how far we've come, how many awesome people we've worked with (jobs = good = @nfvfsa ) and where we're going. Great to have the talents of Tshepo Moche @msmoche and Sheldon Bengston join the pilot writing team o
View fullsize A school excursions! The excitement on the bus, not knowing exactly what you're going to get up to but it's friends, and fun and something different. Concept art by tumelo_thabane, part of the @hiddenhandstudios that are making our animation. Charact
View fullsize Sumptuous colours and brilliant perspective on this concept art by @sefaditshepo and tumelo_thabane for our upcoming animation with @hiddenhandstudios Scientists used to think of human evolution like a branching tree, they now think of it more like a
View fullsize In the wild! I did give the school the poster but didn't know it was used in the science book nook. #scienceisforeveryone
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View fullsize Thandiwe Mweetwa @thandi_lv is joining @bensonkanyembo as a 🇿🇲 Zambian wildlife SuperScientist. We all come from the earth, and have only one Earth. Thandiwe's work, whether at @nsumbu_tanganyika conservation programme or at the Zambia Carnivore P
View fullsize Love this photo of the #risingstarcave excavation team that @keneiloe shared as part of her talk at @newfcommunity. We're a bit biased, but it's always fab to hear her and colleagues talk about the excitement and terror of squeezing through the small
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View fullsize Our main character, the fearless, unstoppable Buhle, is voiced by @neli_sosibo a TV presenter and voice actor in CT. Our trailer will be coming out at the end of March!🎉 Character concept art by Lesego Vorster @hiddenhandstudios #superscientistsan
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View fullsize Sanda Shandu @itsanda_control is one of the talented voice actors working with our sound designer @upstanding_productions to give Rocktor (based on palaeo geologist @slindo91) and other characters their personalities and deliver those killer lines.
View fullsize @michaelafariarichards does an amazing job of channeling a frazzled and frustrated teacher (that smile must be while she's on holiday!) as a key #voiceactor in our animation. Character design by Lesego Vorster of the @hiddenhandstudios #animation
View fullsize Dr Gentry Patrick, aka Dendron, is a professor of neuroscience at @ucsandiego where he studies how neurons use protein degradation (recycling). When working normally, neurons use this process as part of normal neuronal signaling, receiving and sendin
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View fullsize Animation concept art! Imagine this sabre tooth cat #Dinofelis sneaking through the grass at The Cradle of Humankind ready to pounce. Shivers! Thankfully it happened 2 million years ago and all of our heroes lived to tell the tale. 😲 Art by Molefe D