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The non-profit Asscociation for Engineering and Natural Science Junior Educa- Contact
tion Saxony (Verein für ingenieur- und naturwissenschaftliche Juniorenbildung Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Maik Gude
Sachsen e. V.) – short: juniorIng. Sachsen e. V. – was founded by employees of Dr.-Ing. Anja Winkler
the ILK already 2009. Our activities focus on the long-term encouragement info@junioring.de
of the technical interest of children and young people. To this end, we coop- ✉ www.junioring.de
erate closely with with sponsors of scientific and cultural events in Dresden
and all over in Saxony.

To our goal, we are organizing informative but also practically oriented events
on a variety of topics from lightweight engineering, with a wide range of target
audience: pre-school children, schools, technical high schools and colleges,
but also open for the wide society. The addressed issues at these events go
around the type and structure of lightweight materials, possible design meth-
ods or constructions as well as the integration of additional functionalities and
especially the sustainability of lightweight materials and structures.

Moreover, our futher activities support educational staff by knowledge trans-
fer in engineering and natural sciences, concerning primarily the age-appro-
priate and practice-oriented teaching in this fields. This is the spirit of e.g. our
project days and weeks or of the supervision of scientific school term papers
at the ILK. Additionally, we develop and provide informative and experimen-
tal working materials addressing lightweight materials, design concepts and Board of juniorIng. Sachen e. V.:
processing technologies. In close cooperation with the ILK, we also organize (from left to right) Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Maik
child-friendly experiments with the respective target groups directly. Gude, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Dannemann,
Dr.-Ing. Anja Winkler and Dipl.-Ing. Sirko Geller.
In the course of these activities, we have already experienced many interest-
ing, exciting and hilarious moments with a lot of children and young people,
as well as their parents, teachers or other caregivers. Thus, we have imparted
knowledge in a playful way and gained educational experiences on both sides.

In 2021, our usual activities were limited due to the pandemic. Nevertheless,
we were able to support the students of the Grammar school Martin-Ander-
sen-Nexö-Gymnasium in the preparation and defence of their school works
(KOLL and BELL) and inspire three prospective female students with the
production and testing of fiber-reinforced composites as part of the tryING
exploratory studying workshop. In addition, our association became mem-
ber of the board of the State Association of Saxon Youth Education Centers
(Landesverband Sächsischer Jugendbildungswerke e. V., LJBW) in 2021 and
supports it in their Saxony-wide coordination of school social work and STEM
programmes.

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