Reitumetse - "I am confident to say, I am a future scientist"

Pictured: Reitumetse Mocuminyane, a grade 9 learner at Emang Mmogo Comprehensive School in Kimberley, Northern Cape, on the SAEON science education outreach programme through the Arid lands Node.

The SAEON's initiative of the science education outreach programme proves to be a success of tis kind, by reaching high levels of achievement. Its goal is to create a sufficient pool of young scientists who would carry forward the work its work and related scientific programmes.

This has been proven to be true through one of the utmost confident learners on the science education programme, Reitumetse Mocuminyane, during presentations at the education symposium event for 2015. Her presentation was entitled "My first learning experience with SAEON".

Reitumetse proved to the audience through her outstanding confidence how the SAEON science education programme, through its first science camp experience with her school, has opened her eyes to the science surrounding human live.

She caught the attention of the audience at a surprise, as she uttered the following: "As a SAEON Kid, I am now confident to say, I am a future scientist."

"I would like to thank SAEON for the amazing opportunities they have given us, SAEON made me open my eyes, change my attitude towards how I used to look at science."