I pulled off our local school science fair. And by I, I mean that I bought some pens and typed up a few documents while my amazing science teaching colleagues organized about 35 students presenting 20 experiments. It was a science fair unlike any I ever attended in the states, so I really was no help. Many of the experiments were not really experiments but demonstrations of scientific phenomenon (for example the fact that fire consumes oxygen so you put jars of differing sizes over a candle and wait for the flame to go out). It was a huge production with some amazing prizes provided by the school, and the best part was that I wasn’t needed. The main goal of the Peace Corps is to be able to transfer our skills to the people living here so that one day when the program is no longer in the country they can continue developing instead of losing a bunch of resources. I was very impressed by the initiative taken by my school to pull it off.
Then we took 4 winners from our school (two from primeiro ciclo (8-10th grade) and two from Segundo ciclo (11-12th grade)) to the provincial fair down in Tete city. Since Tete has not had many volunteers until my group arrived, it was a first fair for a majority of the schools as well as for the province. Long story short, my kids won 5 of the 10 prizes, and much deserved too. It was the third annual fair for my school and it was a huge event (even bigger than the provincial fair) so I feel the trip to the national fair is well deserved. The national fair will take place in Beira in August at some time with the Escola Secundaria de Ulónguè representing Tete province. Wish us luck!!!
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