The aim of the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa Project is to preserve and promote the legacy of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic expeditioners. With this we are entering a new phase, where promoting science is very important to us.<\/p>\n
Promoting science in the Antarctic region is undertaken by social communication and interaction by visiting schools and libraries in order to create awareness among the children of South Africa.<\/p>\n
This month we had the opportunity to be part of the Holiday Programme at the Kuils River Library, which is coordinated by Me Marindie Madisson.<\/p>\n
On the 14th\u00a0<\/span>of July, Ria Olivier (ALSA Archivist and Co-Investigator) and I (ALSA Technical Assistant), were warmly welcomed by 48 tremendously excited children between the ages of 5 and 10.<\/p>\n The focus of my talk was Global Warming and the research thereof on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean and at South Africa\u2019s station on the Antarctic Continent, \u00a0SANAE IV.<\/p>\n We received wonderful feedback from the children, regarding what they had learnt during the visit, such as: \u2018I never knew that a place like SANAE exists\u2019, \u2018I learned about elephant seals\u2019, and \u2018Marion looks like a very cold place\u2019.<\/p>\n We at ALSA hope to visit many more libraries and schools in the future, promoting South Africa’s Antarctic Legacy.<\/p>\n Anch\u00e9 Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, 25 July 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The aim of the Antarctic Legacy of South Africa Project is to preserve and promote the legacy of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic expeditioners. With this we are entering a new phase, where promoting science is very important to us. Promoting science in the Antarctic region is undertaken by social communication and interaction by visiting schools and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9869,"featured_media":1789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[850,3741,3141,45038,9898,45028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctica","category-marion-island","category-outreach","category-promote","category-sanae","category-visits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/files\/2016\/07\/alsa_outreaach_2016_jul_library_kuilsriver-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZWWZ-sH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/antarcticlegacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}