Our activity book for younger learners is finished! It’s beautifully done and packed with activities to teach kids a thing or two about science while also getting the creative juices flowing.

We will be printing a few thousand copies of it and distributing to organisations and schools and hope to make a version that can be picked up at your local supermarket. You can download a big chunk of the book at our activities page

A huge thanks to Hero in My Hood for art and ideas, Curtis Bonhomme for the character art, and the SuperScientists who host all the activities Nitro, Astrana, and The Eradicator. This project was funded thanks to a grant from The Sage Foundation and ongoing funding provided to CodeMakers.

Very excited to see Kolisa Sinyanya aka Nitro, and Dr Keneiloe Molopyane on CNN Inside Africa this month - here’s their video. They are two scientists that really pushing the boundaries. Kolisa as an oceanography PhD student at the University of Cape Town studying carbon capture in the Agulhas Current. Keneiloe as a post-doctoral fellow and, recently named, National Geographic Explorer working on a variety of palaeoanthropology projects to help understand the origins of humans including the exciting Site 105 in the Cradle of Humankind.

They are definitely two scientists to keep your eye on.

Download activity pages for your kids to learn along with Kolisa

One of the inspiring marine scientists we’ve featured - Zoleka Filander - is part of the OceanXplorers team that will be coming to a BBC or NatGeo channel near you soon! Read all about it here, see Zoleka’s experience on a Instagram account she’s set up - Oceanxplorer_zoleka - as they film the project, or watch one of the videos they’ve already released. So cool! Really looking forward to watching!

A stellar organisation runs Novulakuvaliwe Library in rural Eastern Cape near Lusikisiki. They contacted us about our calendars and we sent through 300 of them that they distributed to local schools. The teachers they work thought they were great and would encourage learners to take science and maths courses. They asked for another 300 and with assistance from the Inspiring Fifty crowdfunding campaign we were able to deliver!

We’ve received some fabulous colour ins from our activity book pages and on Superhero day wanted to share the pages with everyone. Download them here and send back a pic of your character or colouring in of Nitro, and we’ll keep on adding new pages you can download for free.

With huge help from Inspiring Fifty South Africa and the leaders in science and technology they represent, 2000 calendars - not quite enough to really reach to the stars - have been donated to schools across South Africa. We’ve shipped out 1200 so far to schools across the counrty in and will be finalising the project in coming days. Thank you to everyone who donated.

We’ve partnered with the awesome organisation InspiringFifty South Africa, with some of the most amazing women in science and tech, to get as many of our 2021 calendars out to young people.

The calendars are filled with notable dates of science and technology and our awesome art as well as augmented reality. For less than a cup of coffee you can get a calendar in a child’s hand and give them a year of inspiration and learning. Donate R15 or more here. Thanks!

Draw your own SuperScientist, redraw one of the scientists we’ve profiled or dress up!

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