25. Juli 2016 – Christin Nenner

Looking back on the first round of STEM Summer School (2)

As promised, we publish comments of the participants and the project partners on our international STEM Summer School.

The following one is prepared by Aishwarya. She comes from India and participated in the first round of Summer School.

Thanks to Aishwarya for sharing her experiences and thoughts with us.


 

15. Juli 2016 – Christin Nenner

Looking back on the first round of STEM Summer School (1)

In the past month the first round of the international STEM Summer School has finished very successfully. To our delight we were praised for it both by the participants and the consultants of the cooperating companies.

To provide a better insight into the project, we will publish comments of the participants and the project partners as well as some final conclusions in the coming weeks here.

As start – the feedback of our participants:

Feedback_participants

07. Juni 2016 – Christin Nenner

Official final event

Currently our teams prepare the presentations of their results for the final event of our International STEM Summer School on Thursday, June 9th, 2016.

They now worked for nearly 9 weeks in their teams. Together they surmounted all the described challenges and difficulties.

  1. They became a team and handled intercultural differences as well as different locations and expertises.
  2. The team met the challenge to solve a complex task form our industry partners. They established topics that have to be achieved, defined resulting tasks and allocated them to the team members. Therefore they used suitable project management methods.
  3. They collected a lot of information and visualised it within the group by using various e-learning tools.
  4. The teams took well founded decisions by sharing, evaluation and rearrangment of the collected information.

We all look forward to the final presentation of our teams. They are excited about their opportunity to present their results to the consultants from the industry and the university as well as to the interested audience.

Good luck to all our teams!!!

06. Juni 2016 – Christin Nenner

Reflection on team work

The end of our Summer School is coming. Our participants used the opportunity to reflect on the team work. The teams spoke especially about the influence of intercultural differences and what they have learned during the project.

Edwin Prieto from Colombia answered for example the question: How has the international STEM Summer School changed your perception about intercultural differences?