Within various courses, students can learn how to use production technologies and try out their use in a school context. Computer science lessons in particular offer good opportunities for project-orientated lessons in which students can work creatively.

Soft skills and technical competence

In the Soft Skills and Technical Expertise course, students learn about 3D printing and laser cutting as well as hardware-related programming. They realise a guided project during the winter semester. In the summer semester, students apply the previously acquired skills in a free group project in the context of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). A wide variety of projects - from smart irrigation systems and intelligent window control for ventilation to programmable USB-C charging stations - have been created in numerous rounds.

Further information, projects and images

Lab2Learn - Thinking didactically about Computing Science

In the Lab2Learn seminar, students deal with the topic of digital fabrication in the context of schools. To this end, they first get to know the Making and Learning Lab and then develop corresponding teaching units, which are then implemented with school classes. In winter term 25/26, two lessons were developed for a fifth grade class. In the first lesson, the pupils learned everything they needed to know about 3D printing and then modelled a biscuit cutter using CookieCaster. The other lesson was all about the laser cutter and the entire class was able to create personalised name badges.