matrix has been responsible for the implementation of the zdi-BSO-MINT program as a grantee for several years. This program is implemented as part of the overarching joint offensive zdi.NRW, the management of which is also coordinated state-wide by matrix
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Spotlight Story | More girls in MINT – Recommendations from Gütersloh
zdi-Zentrum pro MINT GT started in 2016 to systematically exchange ideas on the subject of girls and MINT. At that time, the exchange of experiences "More girls in STEM" was started, in which both zdi representatives and teachers who were in conversation with schoolgirls took part. We present the results of their work here.
Together for MINT and girls in NRW: zdi community shows their zdi heroines in October
Numerous girls and young women are enthusiastic about MINT topics. In the zdi heroines October they tell their stories.
Summer holidays 2020 - zdi offers holiday fun in exceptional situations
Despite the corona pandemic, the zdi community can offer and conduct over 160 holiday courses for schoolchildren.
First digital zdi BarCamp: hygiene concepts, new digital approaches and financing
For the first time, the annual zdi-BarCamp took place digitally: Over 80 representatives from the zdi community discussed the MINT promotion of young talent in NRW. This makes the digital zdi BarCamp the largest online BarCamp to date on the subject of promoting young MINT talent in NRW. Above all, the possibilities of digital cooperation with schools, companies and other partners in order to offer children and young people exciting MINT offers were discussed.
Summer holidays 2020 - activities and offers from the zdi community
These summer holidays are certainly a very special experience for most students, teachers, lecturers and parents. The Corona crisis completely paralyzed the second half of the year in schools and extracurricular learning locations. Slowly there are more and more loosening in North Rhine-Westphalia, from which the zdi community is also benefiting. Some regions organize interesting online and face-to-face offers. Everything is about programming an app or a 2D printing basic course, hands-on experiments or escape room technology.
15 years zdi | 2016 – Zambia AG is awarded the German Climate Prize
"Live together - learn from each other - be there for each other" - under this motto, school partnerships have existed between the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Gesamtschule (IDG) in Gladbeck, location of the office of the zdi-Zentrum I+I=Z.Gladbeck, and two schools since 1986 in Zambia, Africa.
Today is World Environment Day - for almost 50 years it has been raising awareness for more environmental awareness
World Environment Day, a global day of action proclaimed by the United Nations Environment Program, has existed since 1972. At that time, the first World Environment Conference was held in Stockholm. And since then, on June 5th, around 150 nations have taken part in various activities to draw attention to the endangerment of the global ecosystem. Germany has been involved since 1976, for example with an environmental festival and a bicycle rally in Berlin. Since the 70s, environmental awareness has become more and more anchored in the German population. For children and young people of our time, sustainability is no longer a foreign word.
Research at home - zdi-Zentrum Kreis Borken lends out robots and research kits
Bee bots, blue bots or ozobots - it's not just at the zdi center in Borken that tons of great educational material have been lying unused in the cupboards for weeks. The Borken-based company is now reacting with a creative solution to convey robots and co. to young explorers: they lend their research kits to private households. With great success!
With a hygiene concept against the Corona crisis: Finally on-site courses again
After the 10-week lockdown, the first easing of extracurricular courses has followed in the last few weeks. Finally young people can experiment again and experience MINT. They may also have a lot of catching up to do after weeks of homeschooling. This also applies to extracurricular offers such as zdi courses, which could also hardly be offered or only offered online. As a result, great new digital course offerings have been developed. Nevertheless, the equipment for experimenting that is available in the zdi student laboratories is difficult to transport to each individual household. "One of our core pillars of the EnergyLab is to learn about technology and natural sciences through experimentation," says Dr. Thorsten Balgar, zdi coordinator in Gelsenkirchen.
Gladbach's zdi network is going through the crisis innovatively with digital communication
What to do if partner meetings cannot be held? When physical contact is prohibited? So how can networking work? The current situation due to the corona pandemic is forcing the zdi community to find numerous new solutions for work. In Mönchengladbach, the zdi network has now used a video for digital communication instead of an on-site partner meeting. With unexpected success.
Klaus Kaiser turns to the zdi community: "Strong in the crisis"
On the occasion of the challenges that the zdi community is currently having to deal with at work due to the corona pandemic, the Parliamentary State Secretary responsible for zdi in the NRW Ministry of Science, Klaus Kaiser, contacted the local actors. In his letter, he thanks in particular for the effort that the zdi networks and zdi school labs take to offer great MINT projects even in this situation.