Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium

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Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium
Logo Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium
Logo of the Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium
type of school Gymnasium (grades 5–12)
founding 1989
address

Universitätsstrasse 18

place cottbus
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 45 '57 "  N , 14 ° 19' 26"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '57 "  N , 14 ° 19' 26"  E
carrier City of Cottbus
student about 450
management Frank Ristau
Website steenbeck-gymnasium.de
Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium during the renovation work

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium in Cottbus is a gymnasium with an extended mathematical - scientific - technical ( MINT subjects ) education . It is named after the physicist Max Steenbeck .

history

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium was founded on September 1st, 1989 as a special school for mathematics, science and technology, "Max Steenbeck". With German reunification in 1990 and the associated change in the education system, the former special school became today's grammar school. As a result of these and other changes, the entry level was also reduced from the then 9th to the 7th and finally to the 5th grade.

The 36 students of the first and only year at Steenbeck as a special school were selected from over 100 applicants in a specially developed selection process, consisting of several days of written and oral exams and personal interviews. With the change from school to grammar school, this selection process was abolished and replaced by a new, transparent contact and advice process.

Promotion of the gifted

The school has had grades 5/6 since 2007. The candidates must take a special test, according to which the best 25 are selected and invited to the performance and talent class (LuBK) 5. There are three so-called letter types . You get that after the test. The types are:

  1. A letter (has a good chance of getting to school)
  2. B letter (invitation to interview)
  3. C + letter (bad chances; with an interview if the main subjects have been completed well)
  4. C letter (rejected)

The funding focuses in particular on the profile subjects, which also have priority in the lesson table. In lower secondary level , the number of hours per week in the subjects of physics, chemistry and biology is increased. Technology and computer science are compulsory subjects throughout. Additional elective courses and working groups in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, technology and computer science complement the training. In the secondary II which are profiled and advanced courses mainly in the above-mentioned fields. The nearby dormitory also enables students from other areas to study at this special high school and is used by a considerable number of students. Learning with low class sizes (currently 24 students) and in sharing groups is very intensive. Of the previous 576 high school graduates, 119 students graduated with a grade of 1.0 (≈ 20%).

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium is a member of the Association of Mathematical and Scientific Excellence Centers at Schools e. V.

successes

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium Cottbus is distinguished by its success in international competitions, especially in the fields of physics, chemistry and computer science. Prizes could also be won in numerous state and federal competitions, as well as in Jugend forscht .

Medals from international Olympiads

building

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium is located at Universitätsstraße 18, directly opposite the cafeteria of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg . The two-wing school building was erected in 1974 from large panels in the "Lightweight multi-storey building - Cottbus" system. This type school building in wall-skeleton reinforced concrete construction is widespread in the region. There are five identical schools in Cottbus alone. The 21st POS "Friedrich Engels" was housed here until the fall of the Berlin Wall. On Saturday, March 16, 1985, the fully occupied school narrowly escaped a catastrophe when, shortly before 9 a.m., a driverless MiG-21 M of Fighter Squadron 7 of the National People's Army (NVA) crashed into what was then student dormitory III at the Cottbus Engineering College .

The city of Cottbus decided in 2010 to renovate the building as a passive house .

Unlike the old location on Elisabeth-Wolf-Straße (which also consisted of two buildings), these are connected by an intermediate wing in which the auditorium and cafeteria as well as the entrances are located. The school's gym and sports field were renovated before the move in summer 2012.

Partner schools

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium has a wide range of international contacts. The student exchange with the Základná Skola in Košice has been running successfully for many years, with the students alternating with visits. Košice and Cottbus are twin cities. In 2007, students from Košice were guests at the Steenbeck High School.

Furthermore, the Cottbuser Gymnasium is a participant in the Comenius program of the European Union . Also in 2007, students and teachers from Denmark , Poland , Northern Ireland and France visited the Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium as part of the Comenius project.

Support association

The sponsoring association of the Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium has existed since November 30, 1991 in collaboration with parents, teachers and students and currently has around 255 members. The goals include securing the status of a special school (teaching and learning materials), promoting competitions, school trips and awards. Annual sales are around € 15,000; The chairperson is Mrs. Welz.

Student company

Steenbeck Merchandising sAG has existed since March 21, 2007, a company founded and run by schoolchildren that aims to support the school's public image. The board consists of six students. The student company is organized as a stock corporation so that economic processes can be tested. The shareholders are predominantly students, parents and teachers, as well as Frank Szymanski (former Lord Mayor of Cottbus) and Steffen Reiche .

Max Soccer League

logo

The Max Soccer League is an internal soccer league of the Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium founded in 1998. Currently, over 100 high school students compete against each other in seven teams of the respective class levels in their free time in the Spree Stadium. The league is organized exclusively by students in a democratic way.

The project “Max Soccer League” was the winner of the Democratic Action competition in 2001 in Aachen for the democratic organization and their commitment to mutual understanding between the classes . The jurors, including those from the Theodor Heuss Foundation and the Academy for Educational Reform, liked the project so much that the 2002 learning workshop was held at the Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium in Cottbus (June 12 to 16, 2002). With this recognition of the organizational form, the project became known nationwide.

In autumn 2008, the tenth anniversary of the Max Soccer League was celebrated in a festival week (September 30th to October 2nd, 2008).

Graduates

The Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium celebrates a graduate meeting every five years. The last one took place in 2014.

Further schools with a mathematical, scientific and technical profile

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ school management. In: school website. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Official page of the German selection process for the International Chemistry Olympiad: Task Book 2013 ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.9 MB), page 157f. Retrieved May 6, 2012
  3. ↑ Frank Hilbert: Airplane crash - hundreds of Cottbus residents were very lucky. In: Lausitzer Rundschau. December 28, 2013, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Energetic renovation of a prefabricated building type school. Retrieved March 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Website of the Max-Steenbeck-Gymnasium: Board of Directors of the Friends' Association
  6. ↑ Learning place 2001
  7. ↑ Article on Lernstatt 2001 in: Frankfurter Rundschau , January 23, 2002