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Our greatest thanks go to all scholarship holders, who helped organizing this unforgetable Symposium for us! In particular, we want to thank Veronika & Thomas for their infinite organisational power! :-) We enjoyed this big event and the afterparty a lot.  [read more]

At the moment we are looking for faculties for the implementation of various evaluation instruments. We are in contact with several faculties, including TUM School of Management, Munich School of Engineering, and Chemistry. In the coming weeks we will decide which instruments to test in the next semester. This decision will be based on interviews with experts. [read more]

By a lucky coincidence, our poster campagin earlier this year caught the attention of a teacher at a vocational school, Städtische Berufschule für Spedition und Touristik, in Munich. As a result, our team was asked whether we could hold a talk for a class about advertising practices in social media. Realizing how this is a topic teachers often wish or even need to teach their students, but… [read more]

After our long meeting at Makerspace, we decided to have a relaxed evening by cooking delicious food.  Menu: Starter - Poha/ Rice Flakes Main Course - Roti/Chapathi (Indian Bread) with Kidney Beans Curry Drink - Buttermilk with coriander, Wine, Orange Juice Sweet - Laadu Niklas and Max were involved in steaming the rotis. Beate hosted us and provided cooking space. Nitish prepared the… [read more]

According to the design thinking approach, after the ideate phase we are now in the prototype phase. We had 2 broad ideas now for the game Treaure Hunt/Naturlehrpfad  Board game about career of a scientist We applied 9 criteria for deciding the final one: Long term effect, Fun, Partners & Sponsors, Interactiveness, Physical activity, Accessibility for kids, Scientific method and learning… [read more]

We had a wonderful time at Herrsching and presented the first poster.We had a nice view, good food and beer at the Andechs Monastery. The Ammersee was splendid in the evening. We have refined our goals and are looking forward to the prototype phase for our science game. Find more about our project and visit our page: ja.tum.de/projekte/scienciety/ [read more]

Today, the recording of the first two podcast for the podcast series Africast takes place. Our guests from the Gahnaian Student Union told us severeal interesting facts about life and studying in Ghana. The recording was done in a professional dubbing studio. Now we are looking forward to the publication of the podcast in the end of June. [read more]

As a first step, we pitched our research done about our topic (target group, competition and research, deliverable was a handout) and summarized results To warm up, we successfully mastered the “egg challenge” – build a package for an egg from waste paper so that it survives a fall from 2.5 meters As a second step, we used many creative techniques to create as much ideas as possible,… [read more]