The MeerKAT - SKA Schools competition

All learners from grade 4 to grade 11 are invited to enter the South African SKA Project's school competition. The closing date is 31 March 2012.

What is the SKA?

• The SKA will be a mega radio telescope, about 100 times more sensitive than any other existing radio telescope.
• It will consist of about 3000 dish-shaped antennas that will be spread over a vast area of more that 3000 km from the core site in the Northern Cape Karoo to the furthest telescope antenna. Each antenna will be approximately 15-metres in diameter. ( A radio telescope antenna looks like a very large DSTV dish. The antenna can be rotated and tilted up and down to point at different parts of the sky)
• The SKA will be a multi functional radio telescope operating from 100 Megahertz to > 25 Gigahertz frequency range

1. To get entry form click here
2. For more information click here