The adventure of technology

Last Friday, VEGA Grieshaber KG invited the pre-schoolers of the Roman Catholic nursery school in Wolfach to experience “the adventure of technology” right at the place where modern technology is developed and produced. Accompanied by trainees, the tiny visitors split up into groups; then, at various stations, they solved interesting problems and observed lots of unbelievable things. With the help of a microscope, the young researchers discovered how the eye of an insect, a sugar crystal or the structure of a leaf looks. Everyone found two experiments particularly delicious: what happens to a chocolate marshmallow in a vacuum, and what happens to the colourful layers of different juices when mixed to a “magic potion”. Strengthened by the exquisite drink, the young technicians obtained powerful results at the “strong thumb”. “I have seldom experienced the children as speechless as they were today” remarked one of the accompanying child care workers. Whether they were busy making a Cartesian devil or experimenting with the electronics kit, they followed every single detail with curiosity and looks of astonishment.

“We want to give the children more possibilities for experimenting and discovering. It is terrific that we can realise this live at VEGA, and not just theoretically in the nursery school. The children are absolutely fascinated by the exciting new experiments and the interesting things they can build themselves. If they’d been allowed to, they would have stayed much longer, gaping and marvelling” commented Mrs. Hohendorf, head of the Roman Catholic nursery school in Wolfach, in summary of the day’s events.

Little kids, really big