Just before the summer holidays, tinkerers, design enthusiasts and climate-caretakers met in the school's own Makerspace last Friday to be inspired by project work from the Maker & Design, Art, Physics and Computer Science departments. During the Makerspace fair, visitors could marvel at products being created in lessons, workshops, working groups or OpenLabs during the second half of the school year. The individual stations and their project work were explained in guided tours - by pupils for pupils. Visitors to the exhibition were guided by the morning and closing circles of the classes – a great way of reflecting on questions after the visit.
In the Maker Fair on 1 July, smart, technical solutions were on display, including an automatic water supply for domestic houseplants or wind turbines for generating energy. As for the design, miniature models of young people's living spaces were shown, ranging from a house on wheels to a loft-like one-room flat. All presentations demonstrated the delight in their own inventions, thinking out-of-the-box and the fun of design.
In addition to the project work by the different grades, the climate group also presented at the Makers Fair its upcycled tea lights and bound books, whose colourful book covers were made from recycled materials. The Makerspace-workshop shone with individual signs for all classrooms and their logo from their own production. Another exhibition highlight were products created during the project weeks, such as the hot wire or the soap bubble machine from the primary school theatre project week.
At one of the large tables of the Makerspace, children were allowed to get hands-on: Old plastic lids were sorted and prepared for the recycling machine of the Precious Plastic group. The machine sorted plastic into granulate, which can then be injected into new moulds or pressed into the aforementioned book covers.
The Makerspace team would like to thank all the students for their energy and joy invested in bringing the Makerspace to life!
