Phaenovum student research center Lörrach-Dreiländereck
The phaenovum Student Research Center Lörrach Dreiländereck eV was founded in 2007 by people from science, business, administration and schools in Lörrach . The association wants to give interested and talented students from the border triangle Germany, France and Switzerland access to scientific experiments and research. Children and young people should enjoy scientific and technical questions in a well-equipped learning environment outside of school.
development
The association, which is recognized as a non-profit organization, emerged from a merger of the Physik AG of the Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium Lörrach , headed by Bernd Kretschmer , with the IT seminar organized by the Innocel Innovations-Center Lörrach and the Lörracher Steinbeis-Transferzentrum (EDN), as well as through the support of the trinational BioValley College Networks.
The student research center was set up and managed in the initial phase by the Innocel Innovations-Center Lörrach GmbH (Economic Development of the City of Lörrach), as was the EU Interreg project "phaenovum - trinational student research center Lörrach-Dreiländereck" from 2009 to 2012, on the around 20 partners from Germany, France and Switzerland took part. The financing of the phaenovum operation is based on four pillars: the state of Baden-Württemberg bears a teacher's contribution, the city of Lörrach finances the rent of the buildings and the management staff, industrial companies provide sponsorships or sponsorship, and there are contributions from members and usage fees. The phaenovum currently has 175 using, 27 sponsoring and 24 institutional members (2014). Really good in the volunteer competition! of the state of Baden-Württemberg, the phaenovum 2014 was awarded.
organization
In addition to a three-person executive board, the three departments as well as the institutional and user members are represented in the extended board. The management is divided into an educational and a commercial function. The phaenovum was designed in a cross-border trinational and interdisciplinary manner: students from Germany, France and Switzerland work together in scientific and technical experiments. You can register for the extensive weekly range of courses, weekend and holiday courses, excursions, etc. via the website. A newsletter to be subscribed to regularly draws attention to new offers.
The following three departments of phaenovum work together in an interdisciplinary manner: Department of Physics / NanoSciences; Department of Biology / Chemistry / LifeSciences and Department of Information Technology / Robotics
- Department of Physics / NanoSciences
- This area is closely interwoven with the Physik AG at the Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium (HTG), which was successfully established and operated years ago by Bernd Kretschmer .
- Department of Biology / Chemistry / LifeSciences
- This area builds on the experience of Biotechnet-Waldshut with LifeSciences projects.
- Information technology / robotics department
- The IT seminar Lörrach has been organized since 2003 by the Innocel Innovations-Center Lörrach GmbH and the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Embedded Design & Networking at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University - Lörrach and financially supported by numerous commercial companies in the region.
The teachers at the phaenovum are subject teachers from the neighboring schools and universities. a. Hans-Thoma-Gymnasium, the Technical Gymnasium Lörrach, the Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg Lörrach and the University of Basel . In addition, natural scientists and teachers complement the staff as freelancers.
At the same time, former and active phaenovum students also design or support the courses in the "Young people promote young people" project. In order to enrich the offer and to support the trinational aspect, some courses are offered in French. There are also Swiss schools among the institutional members.
The Phaenovum board is headed by the Lord Mayor of Loerrach, Jörg Lutz , Reiner Liebenow and Jan Olaf .
Infrastructure
The association is located on the Rosenfels school campus in Lörrach and is housed on the one hand in a former building of the Hans-Thoma grammar school and on the other in a new building specially constructed in 2010. The students have the opportunity to experiment with the latest technology, for example with the humanoid robot NAO, a wind tunnel and a high-speed camera.
Programs
The course program always changes with the new school year. Courses are offered for students from the fifth grade. The offer is aimed at all young people who are interested in scientific and technical topics and would like to experience them outside of school.
The program offers a special feature: phaenovum junior experiments at the primary school . Phaenovum junior offers elementary school students the opportunity to experiment in order to arouse interest in science and technology at an early stage. On the basis of eight subject areas from the curriculum, the children learn to ask questions and recognize scientific connections in small groups of 4–6 students.
F1 in school picks up on young people's interest in fast cars and enables them as a team of three to four students to develop in the fields of technology, construction, but also marketing and finance. They have to design and mill a mini racing car to take part in the competition.
Working in small groups in a class is made possible through the involvement of volunteer parents. The parents can be natural scientists but also interested laypeople, as they are specifically trained in the experiment sequences beforehand.
The phaenovum junior experimental sequences and materials were developed by a group of experts made up of scientists and teachers. The Lörrach Education Authority and the Lörrach State Seminar for Didactics and Teacher Training support the project.
phaenovum junior is introduced in schools by a phaenovum coordinator. With the participation and training of the teachers, the schools can continue to implement the project independently and in the long term. At 22 primary schools in the Lörrach district (including the city of Lörrach, city of Rheinfelden), phaenovum junior has been successfully implemented in some cases since the 2011/2012 school year.
This is made possible by the financial support of Sparkasse Lörrach-Rheinfelden. In the meantime, other organizations and companies such as the Sparkasse Markgräflerland Foundation, Endress + Hauser InfoServe and the Rotary Club Lörrach support phaenovum junior. The concept can be transferred to other primary schools in the Lörrach district.
Participation in competitions
Since it was founded, members of the phaenovum have regularly participated in competitions such as:
- Youth research
- Formula 1 at school
- German CanSat Championship
- Quanta competition in India
- International Conference of Young Scientists - ICYS
- Physics Olympiad - iPHO
- International Young Physicists Tournament - IYPT
- International Science and Engineering Fair - ISEF
- Robot competition - iRobIHK
- Student research competition of the Rotary Club Lörrach
- Young people research and students experiment
- RoboRAVE International
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Award really good from the state of Baden-Württemberg
- ↑ Educational partnerships of the Lörrach student research center phaenovum
- ↑ METAKSI school competition at the phaenovum
- ↑ phaenovum junior at the Lörrach lever school
- ↑ Southwest information portal on the activities of the phaenovum ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Research award of the Rotary Club Lörrach
- ↑ Badische Zeitung: In the South Baden regional competitions Jugend forscht and Schüler experimentieren , the Phaenovum puts 6 out of 9 winners
- ↑ Die Oberbadische: Students from the Phaenovum student research center in Lörrach-Dreiländereck took part in RoboRAVE International for the first time
