Aqualibrium - Taking the art of learning to international heights

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Water education Aqualibrium, the water network game first introduced by the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) as a schools competition, is gaining international respect as an educational tool aimed at raising awareness around the role and challenges of civil engineering. Lani van Vuuren talked to the game’s creator, Prof Kobus van Zyl of the University of Cape Town (UCT), about the game’s growing popularity. international interest. “In 2003 SAICE and Rand Water expressed the desire to use an interactive schools water competition as a platform for their combined centenary celebrations, ” explains Prof van Zyl. The idea behind the competition is to raise awareness of the importance of water supply, the complexity of water supply networks, the role civil engineers play in the process, the application of physics and mathematical concepts as well as the importance of preserving water resources. The objective of the competition is to distribute three litres of water equally between three reservoirs (containers) placed randomly on a grid of 16 points.

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