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05/17/2023 | Campus-Meldung

First MINT week at the university "a tremendous success"

Last week, from May 8 to 13, the first MINT Week took place at the University of Kassel under the motto "MINT meets Sustainability". More than 120 program points were to make MINT experiencable for a broad audience in a diverse way. The conclusion: this was more than successful.

Already in the run-up there were about 1400 registrations for the different program points. Around 300 people attended the opening event alone. Prof. Dr. Albrecht Beutelspacher, director of the Mathematikum, inspired the audience with his lecture "Mathematics to touch", in which he explained mathematical phenomena in a vivid way, and the musical accompaniment by the VW Soundorchestra, supported by students from the university big band, provided an inspiring start to the days to come.

The variety of offerings during the week at various university locations, companies, schools, associations and institutions, gave all visitors, especially high school students, new insights and experiences in STEM fields. "We received a lot of positive feedback and also the wish for a continuation of the offers - so the MINT Week was an enormous success," the two initiators and project leaders of the MINT Hub Prof. Dr. Rita Borromeo Ferri, Professor of Didactics of Mathematics, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Meister, Professor of Analysis and Applied Mathematics, were pleased.

On the so-called "MatNat Day", which took place last Wednesday as part of the MINT Week at the corresponding Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the university, about 200 interested people visited. The organizers were particularly pleased "that so many families were also present on MI(N)T-Mach Saturday and participated in the wide range of activities and experiments," said Elisabeth Eckel from the MINT Hub. Around 300 participants enthusiastically took up the offers on Saturday.