Meet South Africa’s Superhero scientists Cosmic Dawn, Bones and Nitro: The SuperScientists comic book project celebrates the country’s scientists to inspire children
. As an 11-year-old, he would be riveted by the extraordinary powers of the mutant squad, especially Professor X, the paraplegic founder of X-Men. Being transfixed by his superhuman abilities on screen allowed Kgoadi, who grew up in the township of Wattville on Gauteng’s East Rand, to draw parallels with his own disability.
By appealing to young peoples’ love of comic heroes, the programme is designed to inspire children to see themselves in the faces and stories of scientists working today, who are profiled through trading cards, posters, calendars and activity books., Kgoadi’s superpower is observing the dark matter that makes up most of the universe and studying its influence in the early universe 12-billion years ago.
“Scientists can see individual atoms within a molecule, read the DNA of a single cell in a tumour and peer back in time to when black holes collided. They have saved millions of lives through their research and technological advances and are solving questions today that people have asked for millennia.”
His idea blasted off and in the past two years, more than 15 000 trading cards, posters, an activity book and a calendar have been distributed to young people, schools, community centres and clinics, with more offerings in the works.
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