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Sci-Bono shuts while shows change The Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown will shut its doors for a week, while the Max Planck Science Tunnel is dismantled and Me Games takes its place. July 5, 2007 By Lesego Madumo TO make way for the next exhibition, the Max Planck Science Tunnel will be removed from the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre on 29 July, following a nine-week stay at the Newtown venue. This means that the centre will close its doors from Monday, 30 July, reopening with a new exhibition, Me Games, a week later on Monday, 6 August. At its opening on 18 May, Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena described the Science Tunnel as the "world's greatest travelling science exhibition in our time". The science tunnel in Sci Bono is to be dismantled At 170 metres long, the multimedia tunnel leads visitors through new dimensions of cutting-edge research, from the smallest particles to the largest structures in the universe. It investigates what holds our world together, how life functions in cells, how our brains work, what makes life on earth possible, and what our place in the universe is. It consists of a dozen wide-screen projections, hundreds of photographs and interactive exhibits. Me Games have been described as "elating and experimental" for young and old alike. They will help "you [to] discover your skills and talents, your capacity to create, innovate, implement a strategy, manage a crisis and co-operate with others", reads an extract from the Sci-Bono website. The games are designed to prepare youngsters for the corporate world, especially those who are in their last years of study; " to [help them] facilitate their perceptions of their own identities and [alter their] thinking about themselves and their interactions with other people". For more information visit the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown or phone the centre on 011 639 8400. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za