The “Future Day“ was originally meant as a chance for girls to make experiences in typical men’s jobs. It was called Girls’ Day. Now also boys can be part of it and make experiences in typical women’s jobs. That’s why it’s called “Future Day” now. It’s a nice possibility to see what some jobs are about and what you can do there as a student.

Here’s a report from one of our students:

The organization MINTIA (Mathematics, computer science, natural science and technology) of the University of Bremen gives female students in fifth to 12^th grade the opportunity to get some experience in different departments of science and excite young girls to do jobs that often are filled by men.

I visited a project where the students could work with electricity.

We were taught in connecting the cables in teams of two, measured electricity and then assessed the results by ourselves. Our group leader also answered questions regarding our physics lessons and supported us in our curiosity. We connected thermometers with our circuit, measured the temperature of hot and cold water and constructed a circuit to calculate the body size of each of us.

With this machine (see left) you could direct a laser beam up, down, left and right and try to touch with it the middle of the red heart on the wall. If one managed to hit, the heart flashed red. But of course we didn´t create this construction, because it was very complex.

All students at the Girls-Day of the University of Bremen had lots of fun and got to know scientific jobs for men and women. I really enjoyed being a physicist for one day and got some interesting insight

By Paula and Sarah

“ABI, was nun?” is a disposition at our school for students from the class levels 9-12 where different companies and universities from different fields of work present themselves to the students.

At the last “ABI, was nun?” disposition there were 39 different stands where we were able to talk to the exhibitors about their work, their companies and their education or studies.

For example there were universities for engineering, natural science, economy, management, logistic and art, a school for speech therapy, different manufactures like the “Daimler corporation”, the police, insurance agencies, a court and actually a university from the Netherlands and even more.

So “ABI, was nun?“ is a great opportunity for us to get an idea, what to do after finishing school and we advise you to set up a day where you can get information about jobs at your school too. You can get a few tips how to manage this from the interview with Mrs. Nieder, the teacher who organized this project at our school and if you need special information you can ask us and we will try to help you.

By Julian Siefert