Freestate workshop

The Freestate SAIP Workshop was certainly well thought out and sent Subject Advisers away with many things to think about. They also had plenty of useful information to take with them. The workshop opened at about 1 PM with a finger lunch and went on a tour of the physics labs. The remainder of the day was spent discussing issues around education and what the university wanted from the incoming students and the subject advisors also got to tell what they expected from the university. At 5:30 we ended the session and headed for the Boyden Science Center and Observatory where we toured the facility and had a great braai.

Friday morning started off with specific topics that subject advisers requested be discussed. Work, power and energy was done by Matie Hoffman; Electrodynamics with supporting theory on Electromagnetism (Ted Kroon); Electrostatics including Capacitors & Capacitances (Koos Terblans).

Subject advisers in the workshops I have been involved with have been very interested and have participated well by asking questions and getting involved with what is going on. The formal idea behind the workshops is to not only present information that the Subject Advisers can return to their district and assist teachers with, but also to form a relationship between the Universities and the Subject advisers and hopeful this will later also include the teachers.

From What I have witnessed, the workshops have been successful!