The official Cocktail Function for the 2008 Reporting Science conference will be sponsored by the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) and will be held on Day 1 at the Johannesburg Observatory, 15A Gill Str, Observatory, Johannesburg and it promises to be both informative and interactive.
The Cocktail Programme is as follows:
17:30 Official Welcome and Drinks
17:45 Live Performance “Meltdown” by Ubom!
18:30 Keynote address and dinner
The following exhibitions will be available for viewing throughout the evening:
Nanotechnology
Mirror Maize
SA Science Lens and
In honour of the International Year of Astronomy you will be treated to a very close view of the exquisite Johannesburg sky.
21:00 Closing
Spaces are filling up fast, book early.
SAASTA is a business unit of the NRF
The Reporting Science Conference, 10th – 11th November 2008, will take place at the Hackle Brooke Estate in Craighall, Johannesburg. This year the conference, which will include plenary sessions and small group workshops, will focus on:
- Climate Change
- Alternative Energy
- Food Security
- Nanotechnology
- Astronomy and Space Science.
We invite journalists, editors, television and radio presenters and producers, sub-editors, and journalism students who wish to better interpret science information for their audience and science communicators needing to understand how to package stories that interest media.
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