NATIONAL NEWS - The science fair brings together high school students to present their scientific and technological researches and share their culture.
Three South African young scientists have returned home with prizes after competing at the Oguzhan Özkaya Education-Karademir Science Energy Engineering Fair (OKSE2F) in Izmir, Turkey.
Projects by Joshua Sylvain de Miranda, a Grade 10 student at Tyger Valley College and Este-Lize Graham, who is in Grade 10 at Hoërskool Menlopark, both in Pretoria, were selected to exhibit at the OKSE2F while competing against 600 other participants at the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair.
De Miranda won a first-prize gold medal in the chemistry category while Graham won a silver medal for second place in the biology category.