SAASTEC
MEMBERS

Benefits of Membership

Membership provides access to the resources of SAASTEC and its members, in terms of networking, sharing ideas, concepts, knowledge, experience, training and more. The objectives of SAASTEC are quoted more fully in About SAASTEC.

SAASTEC is recognised by the South African Department of Science and Technology as representing interactive science centres in the country.

SAASTEC holds an annual conference, which is usually hosted by a member science centre. It provides an opportunity to publicise your science centre to other science centre professionals, to meet with overseas professionals, discuss local issues with southern african colleagues, and more.

The SAASTEC website is available as a marketing tool for your science centre. Member centres are welcome to a link to their centre's website. For centres without a website, a webpage describing the centre may be hosted on the SAASTEC website. Send the secretary text and images of your centre.

In addition the secretary  welcomes news items from members of SAASTEC, to go on the news pages. Photographs of such events are welcome, and a suitable image may be used as the main image on the SAASTEC website home page.

A printed newsletter is also published from time to time. This relies on its members to supply articles of interest.

The membership fees support the work that the SAASTEC President and Council carry out on behalf of the organization's members.

Cost of Membership

• Institutional Membership - R 550 
• Individual Membership - R 220
• Student Membership - R100
• Commercial Member - R1000
• Corporate Member - R2000

Note that members may opt to pay three year's subscription every three years, to avoid the annual increase in subscriptions that are usually made necessary by inflation.

Payment of Membership Fees

Please notify the Secretary/Treasurer, Ginny Stone by emailing to squigglez[at]telkomsa.net indicating clearly who made the payment and the institution represented.

Joining SAASTEC