Scifest Africa 2016 offered more than 56,000 visitors from Southern Africa a festival programme consisting of 65 exhibitions and 706 events, presented by 328 contributors from 76 organisations in South Africa and six other countries, and received media coverage to the value of ZAR 5,6 million from 1 January – 31 March 2016.
Here are a few links to the cool videos from Scifest 2016
Scifest Africa 2016 – The Grand Official Opening Gala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za7xjItE1xg&t=1005s
Beneath the skin productions- Speed Hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRMyOPJULK4
Dr Rob Gess, Albany Museum – The unusual coelacanth fossil find
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQRoOlBbYlM
Clarice Greyling – Detection of learning difficulties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3uzrjUIn1w
Case Rijsdijk Astronomical Society of SA – Telescopes as time machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0dZuShuq9M
Professor Eric Wilcots, USA – Welcome to the neighbourhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYR9w7P_L44
iRhini Science Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nStUjdUte4U
Yolanda Nkala, Centre of Science and Technology, Cape Town – Innovation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxng5U1Z68k
Shagita Gounden, SKA SA – The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mjcMflYny4
Kate Robey, Council for Geoscience – The role of groundwater in South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiM-bYNbKQQ
Janet Kalis, RU – Exploring the genealogy of the clans on the Wild Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ovIsNA5EY
Professor William Edmonson NIA, USA – The big picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo97-DkArwg
Jim Adams NASA – Solving the technological challenges of the Journey to Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZetdbSB4nKE
Dr Stephen Ashworth – Kitchen Chemistry: Seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1VJGUbp__k
Lucy Hunt – How the length of acquaintanceship predicts attractiveness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozZOixQoqHA
Dr Graham Walker, Australia – Dr Graham’s Blow-up Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGvhZRDCVXI
Professor Mike Bruton – Who was South Africa’s greatest inventor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCvbiTdCc0
Habib Noorbhai – The evolution of the backlift batting technique in cricket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMMmt8rfV-I
The Best of Die Physikanten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcmLvplmyn0&t=163s
Laser Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_I9IbMPHyo
Revealing secrets of the universe: NASA’s missions to the dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hTDMiRDCf0
Jim Adams, NASA, USA Technology: How investing in space is changing your life on Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiwH_F7G-uY
Adriana Marais, UKZN Centre for Quantum Technology Quantum what what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU3ASw7HKKk
Kelly Jardim, St Andrew’s School, Welkom Improving speed and accuracy in reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZq-7tHTY_I
If I told you science has limits, would you believe me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeSz21IUWg
Breaking down barriers in the STEM field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDX7Y3NqqbY
Dr Ellen Stofan, NASA, USA Looking outward, inward and homeward: NASA science and you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUk9AtMgky4
Dr Catherine Coleman, NASA Astronaut Office, USA Space exploration: What’s next for NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygqudO7CuYs
Meet a Mars rover driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHDbq8OaURs
Sunset Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06eDfMNqKk
FameLab South Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FuMuPwkz1I
Dr Claudia Alexander, NASA – The Rosetta Mission: To land on a moving comet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFHhZE9rf0
Dr Wanda L. Diaz Merced, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA – Music from the stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QilOFTvCTzA
Panel Discussion: NASA: Setting science alight