Lyndhurst Primary School warmly welcomed Honeywell South Africa on 31 October when the company handed over Stem (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education kits to the school.
The school was twinned with Bovet Primary School from Alexandra in 2015. At the time, the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) partnered better-off schools with less advantaged ones.
The handover of Stem kits follows a successful partnership programme between the department and the company which is a technology company which focuses on aircraft, buildings, manufacturing plants and supply chains.
Only four schools, Lyndhurst, Bovet, Halfway House Primary School and Mikateka Primary School participated in the programme and all four of them received the kits.
The GDE entered into a partnership in 2018 to expose learners from these four schools to aviation programmes which provides them with aviation and aerospace science-focused educational experiences. The programme has since been added to the learners’ curriculum.
As part of the programme, four teachers of the four schools visited the US Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama where they learnt about aviation and were expected to impart this knowledge to learners and fellow teachers.
Honeywell’s Amos Hadebe said, “The initiative brings the scientific principles of flight to even more classrooms and helps address South Africa’s technology and engineering skills gap.
“Through these kits, we are hoping to encourage more young people to excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics topics at school, and inspire them as they consider careers in technology and engineering in the future.”
Lyndhurst Primary School principal Wellington Shaw said the aviation programme had inspired learners.
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