At the end of the first year of lecturing the module, my friend, Anina Remchin, donated a handmade teddy bear to the module for the student that cared the most. Teddy bears and engineers are not associated and my Dean was very skeptical about this idea.
That year (2006) one of my students, Israel Sibisi, assisted learners from his old school in Soshanguve (a big township next to Pretoria) with Maths. The module had no budget and he used his own money to go to the schoo,l via taxi, Saturday after Saturday. During the July recess he continued with the Maths classes.
At the JCP-Swank (the year end function) he received the teddy bear. What a success. The teddy bear became part of the module. The following year a group of five students received one teddy. (I really did not think this through. How can a group of five students receive one teddybear?)
Anina then made a mascot for the module (Johannes Christoffel Pretorius) and now each students, that really did more than were expected, receive annually a little version of the teddy.
Our Mascot
Israel Sibi graduating as a mining engineer
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