Romy Friedman

The Science department was proud to host a Science Symposium this past Wednesday. This day long event gave students the opportunity to experience various aspects of Science.

Our wonderful facilities were put to good use as students were divided into six different groups and rotated through each lab and classroom of the Science floor. Each room contained a different activity; including making esters (the compound that gives distinctive synthetic odours), a movie on antibiotics, quizzes to identify famous scientists and elements, making “gold” coins and finally a demonstration of fun scientific reactions.

In the afternoon KISU hosted three guest speakers who talked about innovative research and chemical products that are being done right here in Kampala. A big thank you goes out to Nazeem Mohamed from Kampala Phamaceutical   Industries, Dr. Sawsa Osman and Dr. Kate Kolaczinski of the Malaria Consortium. We appreciate that these people took time out of their busy lives to support the growth of science in our community and to encourage future scientists within our student population.

The goal of the symposium was to make students realize that science is not only important, but can be, and should be fun. Thank you to Ms. Sharma, Ms. Sheller and Ezekiel Yombo and the IB students for helping us achieve that goal.