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HELP US! WASTE TYRES IN OUR COMMUNITY
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Help us to identify waste tyres dump sites in our community and you could be rewarded
| Gauteng Innovation Competition
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The Innovation Hub is hosting the second annual Gauteng Innovation Competition (GIC) and we would like to encourage students and staff from VUT to participate. The competition will be awarding R1 million prize money to the winners and the closing date is 31 October 2012
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Opportunities
| TIA YOUTH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FUND
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA or the Agency), an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology, has a mandate to enable and support technological innovation across all sectors of the economy in order to achieve socio-economic benefits for South Africa and enhance its global competitiveness.
The Agency is a public entity with the aim of enhancing the country’s capacity to translate a greater proportion of local research and development from higher education institutions, science councils, public entities and private research institutions
into commercial technology products and services. For further information, please visit our website: www.tia.org.za.
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YOUTH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FUND REGISTRATION FORM
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The Youth Technology Innovators Fund is targeted at young people between the age of 18 to 30, not already funded through the normal TIA process.
Complete the registration form and email to Youth.Fund@tia.org.za; or Fax to 086 644 8756
YOUTH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FUND PROPOSAL
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This template is for applications to the Youth Technology Innovators Fund which is targeted at young people between the age of 18 to 30, not already funded through the normal TIA process.
It is to be completed and emailed to Youth.Fund@tia.org.za; or Fax to 086 644 8756.
The completed application should be a maximum of 5 pages.
Creativity in Action
| Great SA Inventions
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What do a Kreepy Krauly, a box of Pratley Putty and a CAT scan have in common? Here's a clue: they share a heritage with Grapetiser, oil can guitars, rooibos tea, vuvuzelas and 'Klippies and coke'. Yip, they're all proudly South African. With South Africa's first all-electric car, the Joule, sparking an interest in South African ingenuity, we take a look at some of the inventions which put South Africans right up there with Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison... well, almost.
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| Student Wins $2,000 for Inventing Toothbrush Sterilizer
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PITTSBURG, Pa., USA: A South African high school student has won first prize in the world's largest international pre-college science competition for a new toothbrush-sterilizing device. Through a one-year project, she found four disease-causing pathogens on household toothbrushes, especially on those from houses in rural areas, and developed a promising method that destroys these bacteria and prevents cross-contamination.
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| Why Does Hot Water Sometimes Freeze Faster than Cold Water?
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The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a £1,000 prize to anyone who can crack this age-old ice puzzle.
The problem of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold, known as the Mpemba effect, defeated Aristotle. We know that Aristotle said: "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." We can be pretty sure he said: "One swallow does not make a summer." But we can hazard a guess that at some stage he would also have declared angrily: "This bloody ice thing is doing my head in."
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