zdi has been committed to getting young people interested in STEM for 15 years. The zdi school timer was the first major information campaign for schoolchildren.
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Interview: Information about the MINT action plan - call for applications for MINT clusters
In February 2019, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research published a nationwide MINT action plan. zdi asked the Federal Ministry of Education and Research about the application process and the main focus areas.
Under the magnifying glass: the long journey of women in science
It is worth taking a look at the historical woman in science in order to be able to better classify today's educational, social and economic developments and issues relating to STEM and girls.
From decoding to programming - The 19th NRW school academy mathematics and computer science in Münster
Artificial intelligence, cryptanalysis and knot theory - 100 particularly interested and capable students from all over North Rhine-Westphalia devoted themselves to complex projects in the subjects mathematics and computer science at the 19th NRW School Academy for Mathematics and Computer Science.
zdi meets LeLa Conference 2019: School labs shape the future
For two days, representatives from all over Germany discussed in Paderborn in mid-March how school laboratories can enable children and young people to shape their own future.
Cooperation between school and university - digital education in focus
The Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Werne and the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences recently sealed their partnership with a cooperation agreement, thereby strengthening the MINT profile of the grammar school. Principal Marcel Damberg and HSHL President Professor Dr. Klaus Zeppenfeld agreed on the joint support of students, especially in the MINT subject areas. In this way, the university gives high school students the opportunity to visit the zdi student laboratory on the Hamm campus regularly. Concrete offers for study orientation, such as taster courses, guest lectures or university tours are agreed individually between the partners. With this collaboration, the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences is entering into its 19th school partnership. "Cooperation with schools is very important to us, because we want to show the potential of MINT at an early stage and inspire students and teachers alike," says Zeppenfeld. Professor Dr. Peter Britz...
zdi-BarCamp #1: MINT makers from NRW
What is zdi doing in space? How digital is zdi.NRW already and what opportunities and challenges does this entail for STEM education? How can zdi networks reach young people even better via social media channels? At zdi-BarCamp #1, the zdi community spent two days discussing, rethinking zdi, exchanging ideas, networking - and laughing. After an initial get-together in a relaxed atmosphere the evening before in the port of Neuss, around 110 participants met in Neuss on the day of the event, including the coordinators of the more than 40 zdi networks and managers of the zdi student laboratories in NRW - despite the considerable challenges caused by the storm Friederike . "Our goal was to offer the coordinators an opportunity to exchange ideas, where they can discuss problems and network, so that working groups might arise from them," explains Kerstin Helmerdig from the zdi office. This opportunity was gladly accepted and filled with a lot of life. In accordance with the BarCamps event format, no…