As part of the ERDF.Stars competition, the zdi student laboratory GeoIT was voted 35rd among 3 other ERDF projects.
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The Mars robot summer camp 2021 in Neuss
Finding a career in the STEM field is proving to be a challenge for many students. In order to counteract these difficulties, zdi has been successfully offering a wide variety of courses and events for years...
SMI 2021: A week full of numbers and program codes
They have built a measuring station for environmental data, decoded secret codes and, with the help of artificial intelligence, determined possible parking spaces in the city centre.
Pupils develop concepts for the Indeland in the JugendIndeLab
The second year of the digital zdi school laboratory JugendIndeLab has celebrated its graduation. The Parliamentary State Secretary in the NRW Ministry of Science, Klaus Kaiser, was enthusiastic about the projects...
Programming made easy with the zdi course “CyberSecurity”
A year ago, Nils Reuter from the zdi student laboratory at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences started giving online courses. The format has now established itself and its courses are attended by a loyal community.
Schools for the sick in NRW - STEM education in a state of emergency
For health reasons, many children and young people are unable to attend regular school classes for a long period of time. But sick students also have a right to school education in Germany.
The immediate program “Future. Downtown. North Rhine-Westphalia."
Last year, the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry for Homeland, Municipal Affairs, Building and Equal Opportunities initiated the “Future. Downtown. North Rhine-Westphalia.” The aim of the program is to strengthen the state-wide inner cities and centers and to prevent corona-related vacancies.
Coding & Making in Bochum Langendreer - Second location of the zdi school laboratory opened
"Mobile phones are being soldered again in Bochum" – that's actually the name of the first workshop in the new zdi school laboratory Innovation.School.Technology (located in the city library of Langendreer). Because after 8 years of waiting, the high-quality assembly furniture that was rescued from the last NOKIA factory in Bochum has finally found a new location. The official opening on October 14, 2020 was taken over by Mayor Thomas Eiskirch.
zdi-BSO-MINT program: Request to submit an offer for the procurement project
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
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.
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.