Category Archives: Physics Abroad

In the community:Physics in Rwanda

By Lena | Published: February 11, 2010
Nature and the Institute of Physics (IOP) are working together to provide equipment for teaching physics in Rwanda. Funded by the IOP, volunteer physics teacher David Richardson started a project in 2005 that donated equipment to one school in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Today, a local workshop funded by Nature and the IOP builds 100 sets of [...]
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Marvin and Milo go to Africa

By Alison R | Published: November 10, 2009
Imagine this… A school with no running water, where the labs have just basic apparatus, no gas, one power point each, and only sporadic electricity.  This is the situation at the Kabale School, Bukoba, Tanzania, which faced David Morgan & Christine Forbes - a science teacher & a chemistry technician from The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester - when challenged to teach a 3 [...]
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