Constructor University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrated another year of MINTernational workshops on campus at Constructor University from January 22nd-26th. The joint program offered high school students from Bremen and the local region the opportunity to ignite their passion for STEM subjects.
Local high school students in their last two years of high school (Abitur) were able to deepen their knowledge with exciting projects and learned about innovative teaching methods in the Global Teaching Labs. Workshops were offered in the areas of physics, chemistry, and robotics. They were held by professors, but also students, of Constructor University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
“I am very happy that I had the opportunity to take part in these workshops,” says Hazim Saleem. The Constructor University chemistry student was one of those who, together with students from MIT, taught physics, chemistry and robotics to pupils from Bremen and Lower Saxony for a week in January.
Thirty-eight high school students took part in the MINTernational workshops this year. “Our aim was not to teach them as much chemistry as possible, but to show them the many possibilities of this subject,” says Hazim. “We also wanted them to get an impression of life at an international and multicultural university.”
Led by Hazim and his partner Lucy Kanias from MIT, the group dealt with questions from the fields of environmental chemistry, biotechnology and nanochemistry. Fundamental questions of ethics and the limits of science were also discussed. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kortz was available as an advisor for the chemistry workshops. Jingyu Park and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Fritz led the physics workshops, Veronika Sirotkina and Egor Sheremetov worked together with Prof. Dr. Kirill Krinkin in the robotics workshops.
Dr. Freia Hardt, Director of Student Affairs, praised the long-standing commitment of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation and was pleased about additional funding from the company JetBrains, which supported the MINTernational workshops for the first time: “Together, we have once again succeeded in showing young ambitious people global perspectives in the natural sciences and engineering and potentially winning them over for a future in these areas.”
About the MINTernational partners:
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
The non-profit foundation enables tomorrow’s researchers to take their first steps in science, whether at school or at university. A central goal is to promote the exchange between science, business and society, and to make it clear that science is made by people for people.
JetBrains
JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools used by over 15 million professionals. Since 2000, the company has built a product catalog that covers all stages of the software development cycle, including IDEs and tools for CI/CD and collaboration.
Source: https://constructor.university/news/another-minternational-success-constructor-university-and-mit