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iNanoWS visit to Midvaal Water Company (22 June 2022). The visit was part of an initiative driven by the
Head of iNanoWS to expose/familiarise iNanoWS staff members, PDFs and students with water and
wastewater treatment processes in South Africa. The ultimate goal was to help align the research conducted
at iNanoWS with the reality on the ground and Midvaal was chosen due an existing collaboration and their
use of advanced water treatment technology.

Unisa experts develop multilingual robotics terminologies
Inspired towards Science Engineering and Technology (I-SET), an engaged scholarship agship project of the
College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) at Unisa, aims to inspire awareness and interest in the
elds of science, engineering and technology using robotics and indigenous languages. The I-SET community
includes learners, students, educators, community leaders and academics. The focus of the I-SET project is
robotics and the project identied a need for indigenous robotics education for South Africa.

Dr Napjadi Letsoalo
The I-SET team collaborated with Unisa linguistic experts Dr
Napjadi Letsoalo from the Department of Linguistics and
Modern Languages at Unisa and Delvah Mathevula from the
Department of African Languages: Xitsonga. Together this
dynamic team developed multilingual robotics terminologies,
glossaries and open education resources (OERs). All agree that
this a work-in-progress to address a greater need.
This great initiative promotes engagement with learners in the
basics of robotics in their home languages. It is as easy as
selecting a language you wish to explore and enjoying the
benets of learning robotics in your preferred language. It is also a
great way to learn a new language.
The dictionary of terms has been compiled by I-SET over many
years of engagement. The translation journey started in 2020
and the team has now published Sepedi, Xitsonga and Afrikaans
terminologies as OERs. They have successfully submitted a paper
on their research that established that the development of
robotics terms of indigenous languages is necessary for the
advancement of robotics education in South Africa.

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