{"id":46943,"date":"2024-10-10T09:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T07:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/brainiacs-lauded-20241009\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:17:14","slug":"brainiacs-lauded-20241009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/brainiacs-lauded-20241009\/","title":{"rendered":"Brainiacs lauded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All projects from the Welkom region participating in the Eskom Expo International Science Fair (ISF) gained a medal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ISF is the culmination of district and regional Eskom Science Expo\u2019s with 295 national and international projects competing in 13 categories.<span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many prizes were won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The special awards were attained by Fatima Noor of Welkom-Gimnasium, who received a laptop for an outstanding project in Bioinformatics from the National Institute of Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NIThECS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_7018a613\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leila Erasmus Welkom Volkskool\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/12188\/b6b097016cb8451e87c7a3e646ab8ff8.png\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/b7d1c286178b4086bea6eb069f75ba14.png\" title=\"Leila Erasmus Welkom Volkskool\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Leila Erasmus Welkom Volkskool<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Leila Erasmus of the Welkom-Volkskool received a tablet from the Wits-Edinburgh Sustainable African Futures Awards, and Tshoanello Setai of the Eldoret Secondary School received a laptop from Siemens Energy for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Stem) school development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gold medals in Engineering went to Fatima for \u201cNext-gen bandages: precision enhanced wound care\u201d, and in Social Sciences to Leila for \u201cLearning ability and music.\u201d Leila was also the Social Sciences category\u2019s winner for the juniors (Gr. 6 to Gr. 9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Silver medals were awarded to Helene Fourie of the Trio High School in Plant Sciences for \u201cLow G food\u201d; to Calista Gerber of Welkom-Gimnasium in Energy for \u201cRemotely controlling and monitoring the regeneration of electricity via an App\u201d; and to Alexis Hefer of the St Andrew\u2019s School in Social Sciences for \u201cPerformance anxiety among high school hockey players.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bronze medals were awarded to Nkosi Kutyunga and Tshoanello Setai of the Welkom Technical High School (THS) in Engineering with \u201cHydrobot 3.0 S.I.G.\u201d and Tshoanello Setai (Eldoret) with \u201cInsuBest\u201d. 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