MINT Days 2025
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The MINT Days will take place at the University of Kassel from February 10 to 12, 2025
Interested school classes, advanced courses and learning groups with their teachers are cordially invited to visit selected laboratories, workshops, workshops and lectures of the STEM departments as a classroom tour to the extracurricular learning location. All offers are free of charge.
Procedure
Registration phase (07.11.2024 - 15.01.2025)
- Binding registration for the offers by teachers of school classes, advanced courses or interested groups
Opening event (10.02.2025 from 5 pm)
- Opening event in the Campus Center of the University of Kassel, including: The Physikanten science show and the traveling exhibition of the Mathematikum Gießen.
MINT Action Days (11.02. - 12.02.2025)
- Action days with offers from the departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Laboratory tours, workshops, experiments and lectures at the university as a classroom tour to an extracurricular learning location.
Offers on the campaign days 11.02. - 12.02.2025
Would you like to travel free of charge with your learning group on the days of the event using the KVG? Send us a message in advance to mint-hub[at]uni-kassel[dot]de.
Campus Holländischer Platz
Holländischer Platz, 34127 Kassel (Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering)
Introductory lecture for the courses offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Suitable from 7th grade
Freedom of design is the main argument for using 3D printing, but we illustrate why the properties of metallic materials can be even more exciting after printing.
Suitable from 7th grade
We use various experiments to show you how special metals can regain their original shape or lift weights with the help of heat.
Suitable from 7th grade
Hands-on lab tour: find out what bioplastics and biocomposites are and how the Department of Plastics Technology conducts research into them.
Suitable from 7th grade
How microscopy helps to make the invisible visible: Insights into materials on different scales await you.
Suitable from 7th grade
You are invited to actively participate in our machine lab: We will show you modern welding and testing processes with a collaborative robot.
Suitable from 7th grade
A generally understandable lecture that anchors the idea of sustainability in the use of electromobility with green electricity.
Suitable from 7th grade
In an exciting lecture, we present the physical basics of rocketry and a brief history of space travel.
Suitable from 5th grade
Our water rocket consists of a plastic bottle that is partially filled with water and pressurized with air. What is needed to achieve maximum thrust?
Suitable from 5th grade
Guided tour of our large laboratories: the hydraulic engineering hall, the experimental laboratory of the Institute of Structural Engineering, the laboratory for construction materials and the traffic route construction laboratory.
Suitable from 11th grade
Wilhelmshöher Allee Campus
Wilhelmshöher Allee 71-73, 34121 Kassel (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
Full-body scanners are one of the standard devices used at airport security checks. We explain how they work and how they are constructed.
Suitable from 8th grade
Take your first step into the world of engineers and learn how to program with Calliope mini.
Suitable for 5th to 10th grade
Build your own electronic circuit in the lab with this hands-on activity under the motto "Hands-on electrical engineering - experimenting with electronics".
Suitable from 5th to 7th grade
Together we will build a bird house with a camera and internet connection.
Suitable from 7th grade
Campus Oberzwehren (AVZ)
Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40, 34132 Kassel (Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
Guided tour of the femtosecond spectroscopy and ultrafast laser control laboratories, where we conduct research into the use of ultrashort laser pulses.
Suitable from 11th grade
Taster lecture on "Light and color: causes and consequences at the atomic level".
Suitable from 11th grade
Investigation of light and color Experiments in the laboratory such as photo blue bottle, OLED, dye solar cell, and much more.
Suitable from 11th grade
Real insight into a chemistry lecture with exciting experiments from general and inorganic chemistry - it gets colorful and a bit loud.
Suitable for 11th grade and up
Workshop with the digital model system Avida-ED to investigate the context of the "disease cancer" in the technical concept of evolution.
Suitable from 11th grade
We will guide you through the laboratories of spectroscopic analysis: mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Suitable from 11th grade
Guided tour through the inorganic chemistry laboratories with exciting experiments and working techniques.
Suitable from 11th grade
"Nano" means small. When it comes to materials, "nano" primarily means different. But how can such materials be produced and investigated? This is the subject of our research and we want to provide an overview with a guided tour of the laboratory.
Adaptable to grades 5-8 and 9-13
Nanomaterials follow their own laws. In hands-on experiments, we produce gold nanoparticles together, explain where color comes from and which properties can still change in nanomaterials.
Adaptable to grades 5-8 and 9-13
Polymers are long-chain molecules that are so large that a single molecule is already a nanostructure. They are the basis of today's plastics, but also the building blocks of life in every biological cell. In hands-on experiments, we show polymers from nature that have the potential to replace today's plastics. We look at where these polymers are found and how they can be processed into useful materials.
Adaptable to grades 5-8 and 9-13
Some time ago, it was believed that chemical reactions could only take place in one direction and could not oscillate between two states. The experiments that we would like to carry out together with you show that there is another way. The stopwatches and oscillating clocks that we will make are a model for the complex clocks that run in our body cells and give our lives a rhythm.
Adaptable to grades 5-8 and 9-13