“Fit for Future - Make up your MINT” project manual guides pupils through ten practical projects from February to June 2025
“Fit for Future - Make up your STEM” project manual guides pupils through ten practical projects from February to June 2025
Worms, November 26, 2024 - At a time when the world is changing fundamentally and constantly presenting new challenges, the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are of great relevance. RENOLIT has maintained an educational partnership with the Gauß-Gymnasium in Worms for almost 13 years in order to get young people interested in these future-oriented topics at an early age and give them an insight into the professional and working world. This will enter a new round in February 2025 with the new project series “Fit for Future - Make up your STEM ”, which offers students a varied program with exciting topics to get to know various STEM areas in practice.
Whether it's innovative technologies, complex problem-solving or shaping a more sustainable world - STEM subjects offer countless opportunities and career paths. “This is exactly where our new educational initiative comes in. We are giving the students at Gauß-Gymnasium a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in this exciting world in a very practical way,” says Markus Blümle, General Manager Corporate People & Empowerment at RENOLIT, explaining the innovative approach.
The new project handbook was created as part of the educational partnership between Gauß-Gymnasium and RENOLIT. It is primarily aimed at Year 7 pupils who will be completing the STEM course in the second half of 2024/25. The STEM course is an additional qualification that the Gauß-Gymnasium, as a MINT-EC school, offers to all those who are particularly interested in scientific topics. For this special occasion, those responsible - representatives of RENOLIT, the Gauß-Gymnasium and the Gauß-Gymnasium Foundation - developed the project manual “Fit for Future - Make up your MINT” to introduce participants to careers in the STEM fields as part of a series of projects. In a total of ten double lessons, which always take place on Mondays from 13:30 to 15:00 during regular course times, the educational partnership aims to encourage the participants to explore and discover exciting and diverse careers for themselves from February to June 2025.
The program offers a wide range of practical STEM topics: Whether it's a visit to a weather station and the evaluation of weather data or gaining insights into the processes of a sewage treatment plant, active environmental protection, making your own honey or the latest methods of design thinking and prototyping for the implementation of creative projects - there is something for everyone.
“We hope that our initiative will inspire many young people and make them curious about the exciting world of STEM professions,” says Dr. Julian Kallmann, Headmaster of Gauß-Gymnasium.
It is doubly worthwhile for all students who complete the events. Not only do they gain exciting experience, but they also receive a certificate with gold status at the closing event, which takes place at RENOLIT. Those who are particularly eager to learn will also be entered into a prize draw to win an iPad.
The kick-off event “Fit for Future - Make up your MINT” took place on November 25, 2024 in the auditorium of the Gauß Gymnasium.
The Gauß-Gymnasium Worms
The Gauß-Gymnasium in Worms is a lively and diverse grammar school with a focus on mathematics, science and modern languages. It is named after the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Around 90 teachers teach the approximately 1,200 pupils. The Gauß-Gymnasium offers optional science lessons as well as bilingual lessons in German and English from year five onwards. Gauß-Gymnasium has been part of the MINT-EC schools network since the 2018/19 school year.
