Africa-Press – Angola. Children in the first cycle of secondary education in the province of Bengo benefit, starting on Wednesday (17), from the Ciência Sobre Rodas (Science on Wheels) project of the Luanda Science Center (CCL), which aims to popularize science and techs.
Launched in Feb 2025 in the city of Moçâmedes, south-western province of Namibe, the project aims to promote experimental STEM (Science, Techs, Engineering and Mathematics) teaching in educational establishments.
The three-day itinerant initiative brings interactive exhibitions, experiments and a mobile planetarium, and focuses on promoting scientific knowledge among local communities through educational and interactive activities, with a focus on stimulating interest in scientific careers.
On that occasion, the CCL’s science educator, Adalberto Miguel, emphasized that the “Science on Wheels” project’s primary mission is to disseminate and popularize scientific knowledge through interactive and expository modules linked to different areas of scientific knowledge such as physics, geology, biology, chemistry, and maths, accompanied by a mobile planetarium to provide a journey of astronomical knowledge.
The project, he continued, aims to reach the largest number of students in the country, considering that not everyone has the opportunity to reach the Luanda Science Center.
Hence the “Science on Wheels” initiative to ensure the inclusion of all through scientific knowledge, aiming to encourage young people to pursue scientific careers, as well as to stop simply being consumers of scientific knowledge, and in the future become producers and proponents of knowledge.
After Bengo, the team will continue with the same purpose to the provinces of Uíge, Huambo, Bié, Cuando, Moxico, Lunda-Sul and Lunda-Norte.
The director of the Provincial Education Office of Bengo, Manuel Fernando, welcomed the initiative of the Luanda Science Center for carrying out the project and for choosing the province to host the first Edition of the second season of “Science on Wheels”.
He mentioned that STEM fundamentally stimulates children in secondary education to enjoy subjects that are considered complex, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, and this project leads children to understand simplification, in a simple expression that stimulates a love of science.
According to the director, the initiative also emerges as a way to guarantee the vocational guidance of children, hoping that the project will reach schools in remote areas, a matter that will be addressed with the CCL for its implementation.
The CCL opened its doors to the public in Jan 2024, after an experimental period.
Supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESCTI), it constitutes an important milestone for the massification of scientific knowledge in the country, and for the implementation of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy.
