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FET SCIENCE CLUB

YOUNG SCIENTISTS ON THE MOVE…

Preface

Today we can travel the world with the comfort of our home seats, we can sail instead of swimming, drive instead of walking and even fly from one country to another without any time. Lately we can be able to communicate with people across the world in just less time rather than writing letters that would take time to be delivered and returned. These inventions and many more others has been made possible by people like you and me through the knowledge of mathematics, science and technology, we can name few going back in times people like Albert Einstein, Alexandra graham bell and many more who simplified the world that we live in today.

I believe that there are doctors, mathematicians, engineers and scientist amongst the students we currently have, but they just need the right push in the right direction

PROBLEM STATEMENT

Majority of our

students

are demotivated to pursue a career in mathematics, engineering and science because of lack of interest in maths and sciences and because they are discouraged participate in maths and sciences competitions and activities. Leaners that currently doing maths and science as their major didactics subjects needs to be motivated and be given opportunities to explore their capabilities, Students with

no interest

in mathematics and sciences

don’t have

the spirit of creativity

.

Most learners choose maths and science as their major subject when reaching Grade 10 and end up regretting their choices because of the difficulties they come across during first term of the grade 10

th

year, and end up changing subjects to something that they are not passionate about just because it’s much simple than solving problems in maths and balancing equations in sciences.

INTRODUCTION

What is FET Science club?

An organisation intended to provide opportunities for FET learners to explore their capabilities in sciences though enthusiasm and creativity.

Science club vision:To establish learners as competitive and develop a profession-specific career path, and also create practical learning that will meet theory done in class in order to re-arouse the interests in subjects chose by learners.

Science

club mission:

Promoting mathematics and sciences by supporting learner’s enthusiasm and challenging their creativity.

logo

slogan

Young scientist on the move…

Objectives:

A change of negative attitude toward mathematics and sciences

High pass rate with qualities results to give students a university entry and follow their career paths.

Partake in mathematics and science activities and competitionsMotivational speakers to encourage learners to study hard.

Science club purpose.

Yes

, it’s true that learners needs to study hard in order for them to get good results and follow their specific career paths. But in most cases learners without the spirit of mathematical and scientifically challenge give up on their dreams because they believe they can’t make it, therefore, the purpose of this science club is to rearose the interest in maths and science to students who

chose mathematic and sciences as their major subjects. We want the grade 10th student to have that “science is fun”

and

“I can do science”

positive attitude

What does FET science club do?

Competitions:

encourage learners to take part in all competitions and activities

to establish learners as competitive and become sharp minded.Research all the mathematics and science competition activities.Register student with different institution or company hosting the completion.If competition are in a test form previous questions are downloaded and printed for student.

If the test is written or participated at company hosting the competition, the transport is organised by a science club leader.

It the tests are been sent via post office, the leaders organises the venue and invigilate the exam room.

Recognition and rewards:

courage learners to improve their term to term marks and final year mark by rewarding the top 10 learners with

certificates.

each term we analyse the science club students results, then select the top ten who passed the best and reward them, If other leaners sees the top 10 learners gets rewarded with gifts they will all want to be part of the top 10 and by the end of the year we will have 100% pass rate with quality results\Experiments: give learners an exposure of scientific methods and also helps them to understand the practical work of the theory done at school, because most schools don’t have sufficient resources to conduct all the experiments.

FET science club researches the procedures of basic experiments done in student’s school curriculum

Organises apparatus and substances required for the experiments for science club students

Set up the experiments as required per group and monitor the student whilst doing the experiment and give them short tests regarding the experiments

Educational excursions/trip and motivational speakers: motivates students with educational trips and professional motivational speakers every term to prevent students from giving up when they face life challenges.Each term the organisation organises a trip that help students learn somethings in order to make their school work easy.

A motivational speaker is booked to ensure the students are kept motivated at all times and restore their energy and positive attitude towards reaching their goals.

SWOT Analysis

Purpose:

creating a science adventure for learners at the beginning of the FET phase to enhance their spirit of creativity and scientifical challenge

STRENGTHSWEAKNESS

OPPORTUNUTIES

TREATHS

STRENGTHS

Existence of previous strategic organization

Teachers at schools willing to assist

A passionate and dedicated leader about learners success A leader with experience of working with learners from different cultures and laboratory experienceAn experience of working with projects and doing science activities and competitions with various companies Support from NYDT (NATIONAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT TRUST) CEO , Mr Adrian Mayer

Previous learners with positive attitude and interested new learners.

Presentation skill and an eye catching logo to recruit more sponsors

Weakness

Don’t have a website or a magazine to show our activities.

Don’t have a record of previous club achievements.

An action plan (the number of student we must have, approaching local schools and the selection process).Don’t have a marketing strategystart-up plan

Opportunities

Leadership training for possible Advancement.

Scholarships and bursaries for learners.

An increase participation rate from our community in science activities and recognition Exposure for learners from different diversities Sponsorships to assist in fulfilling our missionCollaborate with community partnersPromote teamwork across divisions

Threats

A venue to organise meetings, conduct experiments and write tests.

Don’t have office resources.

Existence of various projects at the resource centre may attract more students and move away from us.Fewer teachers willing to take part. Start-up funds

The proposal overview budget

Equipment

Estimated Amount

Projector

R5000

Laptop

R4000

Tripod screen

R1000

4-in-1 inkjet printer

R3000

2.1 channel sound bar

R2000

Modem or Wi-Fi router

R300

per month

A4 office paper

R200 per box

ESTIMATED TOTAL AMOUNT

R20,000.00

FUNDS ASSISTANCE THRUOUT THE YEAR

Event

Description

Educational tours transportation

1 tour per term

Educational tours entry fees

Others are free and others charge from R80 per learner (provided

that

all

learners won’t be able

to

pay for themselves )

Competitions entry fees

Others are free and others charge from R40 per learner (provided

that

all

learners won’t be able

to

pay

for themselves)

EXPERIMENTS

&

VENUE

W

e could use 1 of the local schools or book multipurpose centre (1 experiment per term).could need assistance with certain apparatus.

Benefits

Any questions ?