Girls, Girls, Girls

Roberta-Robot bolts across the table – first forward, then around a corner – just as the earlier programming during the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Long Night of the Sciences) told it to. This night is just over and once again the little robot left lasting impressions on people – also on girls, like Luisa Jahn reports. They assemble the car out of many Lego-bricks and then they teach it to drive by means of intuitive image-driven... [more]

Key experiences in the school-lab

Making experiments instead of memorising formulas: Getting children into science and technology works better at unusual places for learning than in a classroom. More importantly: Today‘s little researchers might become the scientists of tomorrow. A visit to the DLR School Lab of the German Aerospace Center is a truly cosmic Experience for school children: There, they handle real meteorites that have been milled to extremely thin and almost... [more]

Cash for calculus

A quote attributed to the Greek mathematician an physicist Archimedes reads, “There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.“ The others are the ones studying it: at the Mathematische Schülergesellschaft “Leonard Euler” (Mathematical students society). The society attracts many young people. Dealing with this popularity requires creativity, not only in math, but also in fundraising. In early June, more than... [more]

A secondary school for science city

Summer schools, student labs, Research Days – universities, companies and research institutes come up with manys things to get young people into science. But, there was one thing missing: the science park’s own school. This could change in near future. “Our connection to Adlershof is as old as the school itself,” says Bärbel Cohaus, principal of the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Originally located in Adlershof, the school... [more]

Playground for science and technologie

Many biographies of scientists show us that a fascination for science or technology is usually sparked in early childhood. Such interests are developed already at an early stage and especially young children have a natural inquisitiveness and with that, an important trait of every scientist: the capability to ask questions, driven by the desire to understand the world in which we live. If we want young people to choose technical or scientific... [more]

The learning factory

„A child is like a scientist. They create tasks for themselves and search for solutions. They are able to learn by themselves.“ The kindergarten „Campus Adlershof“, which opened last year in November, lives by this basic idea of progressive educationist Loris Malaguzzi.In a knowledge-based society like ours, independent learning is more important than ever before – this is not just the case in childhood, learning is a life-long effort. Germany‘s... [more]

New: Clean Energy Trainer

Heliocentris and h-tec cooperate in the field of renewable energies training products

Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG, a leading specialist in clean energy storage solutions, announces the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of technical and vocational training equipment with h-tec Wasserstoff-Energie-Systeme GmbH, a supplier of solar hydrogen training systems. This cooperation combines the expertise of both companies in developing high-quality technical and vocational training products in the field of renewable... [more]

Virtual worlds and the successor to the barcode

IKIPSI doesn’t mean anything, but it sounds good. IKIPSI is a project run by the Adlershof company Software Achkar and is intended to help children in Japan to learn English. Also in museums modern information and communications technologies have added to the forms of presentation. On Okinawa Island children learn differently than in Germany. The Okinawa Prefecture extends over more than 160 islands in the southwest of Japan, and not every... [more]

Well equiped

Product miniaturisation enjoys equally great significance for both science and industry. The range of applications for Microsystems is virtually unlimited, extending over logistics, security, quality surveillance in production processes, and monitoring of human body functions. Developing innovative and customised products into marketable commodities is a key success factor for German companies. In this respect key technologies like microsystems... [more]