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Are you the next 3MT South Africa winner?

15 July 2021 | Story Lunga Luthuli

The Three-Minute Thesis Competition, also known as the ‘3MT’, is an annual competition held at 200 universities around the world. It is open to PhD and master’s students, challenging participants to present their research in just 180 seconds – in a way that is understood by an audience with no background in the research area.

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The competition originated at the University of Queensland, Australia. The UFS Postgraduate School was the first to bring the ‘Three-Minute Thesis’ (3MT) competition to Africa, and it has now become an annual event at the UFS.

The competition aims to assist participants in the development of presentation, research, and academic communication skills, as well as to support the development of research students.

Each faculty will run the 3MT at faculty level. Winners from each faculty will compete against each other during the institutional competition on 1 October 2021 and will stand a chance to win these awesome cash prizes.

UFS INSTITUTIONAL PRIZES FOR 2021 ARE:

Position	Prizes 2021
Master’s winner	R6 000
Master’s 1^st runner-up	R4 000
Master’s 2^nd runner-up	R2 000
PhD winner	R8 000
PhD 1^st runner-up	R6 000
PhD 2^nd runner-up	R4 000

Winners of the institutional competition will go ahead to compete against other universities on 29 October 2021.

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An out-of-this-world experience

2015-12-14

Film premiere hosts Professor Matie Hoffman, manager of the Naval Hill Planetarium and the planetarium’s operations manager, Tina Mangope.

The Naval Hill Planetarium in Bloemfontein premiered two new short astronomy films on 4 December 2015, with marvellous cosmic visuals explaining how the earth and all the planetary formations in our galaxy and the universe were created.

The two films, aptly titled ‘Cosmic Collisions’ and ‘Journey to the Stars’, were both made to enhance people’s knowledge about the universe and the vast dynamics within it. They were donated to the Bloemfontein-based planetarium by the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with several other US space science intuitions, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

“These two fantastic state-of-the-art films are scientifically accurate and very expansive,” said Professor Matie Hoffman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of the Free State. Hoffman is also the planetarium’s manager.

Nestled in the bushy landscape of historic Naval Hill - also home to the iconic statue of Nelson Mandela and the Franklin Game Reserve - the Naval Hill Planetarium was opened in 2013. It is the first digital planetarium in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is situated at the old Lamont-Hussey Observatory Building, which was closed in 1972.

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