As part of the Children’s University, the next lecture on 26 June 2019, entitled ‘How my robot does what I want’, will focus on the technical nature of movement.
Almost everything around us is in motion. Children take this movement for granted. They grow up with it. But what exactly lies behind it? Why, for example, can a robot move? Why can it grasp objects? Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Michael Titze, a research assistant in mechatronics and control engineering at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, will work interactively with the children to explore the answers to these and other questions, using simple, child-friendly examples.
This time, it is not a lecture theatre on the Kleve campus that awaits the curious young minds; instead, the Children’s University will take place on 26 June 2019 at the parish hall in Zyfflich (Möllersweg 6, 47559 Kranenburg). As this event is intended for children aged four and over, the Children’s University will start a little earlier than usual at 4.00 pm and end at 4.45 pm.
The idea for the Children’s University lecture in Zyfflich arose as part of the German-Dutch INTERREG V A ‘Deutschland-Nederland’ cooperation project KRAKE Krachtige Kernen/Starke Dörfer. The aim of the project was to keep villages in the border region vibrant. Zyfflich was one of the villages involved. During the course of the project, the children of Zyfflich expressed a wish for a robot for their village. As part of this, the children visited, amongst other places, the robotics laboratory at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and the school laboratory at the zdi Centre in the district of Kleve, ‘cleverMINT’. However, to bring the topic directly to the village and make it accessible to other children (and adults), the decision was taken to organise a Children’s University lecture on the subject in Zyfflich.
The Children’s University
Through the Children’s University, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences offers children aged between eight and twelve the opportunity to develop a passion for the world of science through lectures (45 minutes) designed especially for them. Just like real students, they are given student ID cards. They sit in lecture theatres and can ask experts as many questions as they like. The main difference from a proper degree course is that there are no exams to sit.
Get involved!
Children keen to study at the Children’s University can attend either all the lectures or just a few. The Children’s University’s course catalogue can be viewed on the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences website at www.hochschule-rhein-waal.de/de/veranstaltungen/kinder-uni-0. No registration is required for the lectures. Admission is free.
Many thanks to our partners and sponsors:
The Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences Children’s University was selected as part of the Operational Programme for North Rhine-Westphalia, co-financed by the ERDF under the objective ‘Regional Competitiveness and Employment 2007–2013’.
