MExLab Opening
ifgi’s initiative GI@School since 5 years transfers knowledge and science from the labs, especially MUSIL into schools. A broad program has been developed and workshops from 2h to 2 weeks have been performed on several topics around GI Science.
Now GI@School receives a new „home“: MExLab ExperiMINTe - MExLab stands for Münsters Experiment Lab, MINT is the german translation of the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Mathematics) – is the University’s place to host high school students in scientific workshops. The new colorful building consists of two seminar rooms and is fully equipped with laptops, interactive boards, android smartphones, GPS receivers and a lot of different sensors to work with. GI@School is a founding member of MExLab ExperiMINTe and will organize its workshops in the new building. Some examplary workshop topics are „Use and Integration of Mobile Sensors“, „GEO-App Development“ or „Sensor-Web Weather Station“. See also the university’s press release about the opening (in German).
One idea is to provide a real MUSIL-Workshop for GI@School and perform it in the easter holidays – a GI Science academy is planned from April 10 – 14 with daily workshops. I am sure linked data or some of our philiosophical topics would be great to work on with high school students. Please comment with ideas!
