3-D printing to improve the lives of individuals
Staff and students at the Engineering Faculty are in the process of giving the traditional way of manufacturing products a huge blow. They are now using their wide variety of world class three-dimensional printers. According to CP Kloppers, a lecturer in mechanical engineering, the purpose of this easier and faster way of manufacturing is to give the community access to products that will make life a bit easier.
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Gr8 Success! – a serious game for teaching soft skills
Meet Faith Sibiya and Carl Thomson. They are two typical varsity students. Faith is an eccentric foot-dragger and always finds an excuse to do that really important assignment... tomorrow.
Carl, on the other hand, is an inattentive fusspot. In less than six months' time, both of them have to set foot in the world of work. Do they know that industry requires more than mere technical skills and know-how?
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Social service information is just an app away
On a dusty street of a village in the North West Province a group of 12-year-olds are cheering each other on as they play kgati, an indigenous game using a skipping rope. As the game intensifies one of them hears her grandmother shouting from the kitchen, requesting her to go to their ward counsellor's house and ask if social grants will be paid the following day. Many South Africans rely on others for social service information.
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