World Environmental Education Day
On World Environmental Education Day, 26 January 2025, we’re taking a moment to celebrate 21 incredible years of NRF-SAEON’s Science Engagement Programme.
ICSHMO 2025 Ocean Competition
NRF-SAEON invites you to participate in an ‘Ocean, Meteorology, and Climate Change for the Southern Hemisphere’ Art Competition for learners from grades R-12 based in South Africa. This competition aims to inspire and educate on our beautiful and interconnected Earth systems and highlight some of the challenges posed by climate change, through your artwork. Winning entries will be showcased at the 14th ICSHMO to be held in Cape Town in 2025.
Grassland Node’s first Science Camp
The NRF-SAEON Grassland Node hosted its first science camp for grade 9 learners from June 18-21, 2024, at Mkuze Game Reserve. Nineteen learners and four teachers from various schools engaged in scientific inquiry, field experiments, and computer workshops. The camp aimed to develop scientific skills, critical thinking, and data analysis, fostering an appreciation for science and nature.
2024 Ocean Competition
The Department of Science & Innovations in partnership with NRF-SAEON invites you to participate in the 2024 Ocean Competition for learners from grades R-12 based in South Africa.
Find out more about this exciting competition!
NRF-SAEON Learner Receives Gold Medal at Eskom Expo for Young Scientists
NRF-SAEON Kid, Alutha Botha, from Nombulelo Secondary School, won a Gold Medal for his scientific project entitled Exploring Habitat Use by Juvenile Fishes Using Remote Underwater Videos, in the Environmental Science category.
Marine Protected Areas
Learn about South Africa’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)!
MPAs play an important role in protecting the marine biodiversity, ensuring that people can continue to benefit from the oceans in the future. They can be used to keep marine ecosystems functioning properly, to support fisheries sustainability and to protect the diversity of species living in our oceans.
SAEON celebrates National Marine Week virtually with high school learners
Mthuthuzeli Gulekana and Zoleka Filander from DEFF discussed the current and future prospects for ocean sustainability and human connections with our ocean. We also took a journey to the rocky shore, to collect some data and investigate the animals found there.
Grade 10&11 iNaturalist Competition
At SAEON we have created an iNaturalist competition for you to participate in as part of your science camp. While during these strange COVID-19 times we cannot have a normal science camp, we want you to use iNaturalist to collect data that we can use during our virtual science camps.
SAEON Kid off to California for science expo
Lindelihle Manyathi of Ntsika Secondary (a SAEON supported learner) has been chosen to represent South Africa at a science fair in California in May 2020. He was assisted by Phakama Nodo (SAIAB) and SAEON staff in collecting data for his science expo project looking at fish.
SAEON learners scoop awards at the 2019 Eskom Expo International Science Fair
We are very proud of the SAEON supported learners who participated in the 2019 Eskom Expo. SAEON learners were awarded a Siemens bursary, laptops from Siemens and best project in the environmental studies category and best project in agricultural sciences category.
