The HSZG's Kinder Academy was a guest at the Hoyerswerda Computer Museum and offered children and young people the chance to experience science up close.
At the end of January, the special exhibition area of the ZCOM Zuse Computer Museum once again became a lecture hall: the Kinder Academy of the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz was a guest at the Hoyerswerda Computer Museum and offered children and young people the chance to experience science up close. The cooperation with the ZCOM shows how important extracurricular places of learning are.
For 20 years, the Kinder Academy has been an integral part of educational life in the European City of Görlitz-Zgorzelec and the university town of Zittau. Scientists teach exciting research topics in an age-appropriate way. The Kinder Academy is organized by the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz.
On site at ZCOM Hoyerswerda on January 30, the motto was "Programming with data - learning by example". The events gave children and young people practical insights into programming and artificial intelligence. The event was attended by a fourth grade class from the Elster elementary school as well as grade 11 pupils from the Leon-Focault-Gymnasium Hoyerswerda.
The speaker was Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus ten Hagen, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science' at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, who spoke enthusiastically to the pupils. "I explained that I was going to show them programming and they got out their tablets. I wouldn't have expected that. When the WiFi access data was on the board and the pupils asked what they were supposed to do, the accompanying teacher replied: 'Just like in class', and they were on the Internet. The students called up the scratch.mit program and diligently programmed along. They all entered the presented programs on their tablets and ran them. I am impressed!"
Text and photos: Frank Schneider
