23 April 2018 – World Laboratory day – BICS would like to wish all people and organizations within the science and laboratory industries, a Happy World laboratory day

World Laboratory Day celebrates an environment where great discoveries, inventions, and medical cures are born.

We believe South Africa’s youth has been an excellent example, particularly when it comes to innovation, we discover a new generation of game-changers on the scene. On this day we celebrate the likes of LUDWICK MARISHANE who’s made a global impact. The 27-year-old South African entrepreneur came up with the idea for Dry Bath, a product that enables individuals to take a bath without any access to water. In 2011, Ludwick was esteemed as the best student entrepreneur in the world and in the very same year Google named him one of the ‘12 Brightest Young Minds in the World’, and to top it off in December 2013 TIME magazine named him one of the thirty people under thirty who is changing the world. He was one of only two Africans on the list.’

As we mark this day, we at BICS are optimistic when we see the commitment of young people. If we solve the most pressing issues of our time and tap into the dynamism of youth movements and young social entrepreneurs, for they have the potential to be the most creative forces for social change.

“Without laboratories men of science are soldiers without arms” – Louis Pasteur