Gummersbach Career orientation, STEM

zdi student lab
investMINT Oberberg at BK Dieringhausen

Simulate companies and experience industrial production

For school classes from grade 9, usually with 15 to 26 students

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Run a company for a day

How is a plastic product created? What tasks are performed by marketing, technology, laboratory, quality management, or controlling? And how do these areas interact in a company?

In the zdi student lab investMINT Oberberg at the vocational college Dieringhausen, students (from grade 9) experience a full working day in a plastic processing company. They take responsibility in various company areas, make decisions, plan production processes, analyze materials, and finally manufacture their own product on a plastic injection molding machine.

The didactic concept is based on the Covestro Science Lab and has been consistently further developed for regional requirements. As an award-winning zdi student lab, this learning location combines scientific, technical, and economic content and provides an authentic insight into one of the most important industrial sectors in the Oberberg district.

Learning by doing

On the day at the zdi student lab investMINT Oberberg, the entire class works together as a company. Depending on their interests and strengths, students take on tasks and are divided into five different teams:

in the marketing, laboratory, technical, communication, or finance teams. Together they plan the production process, test material properties, calculate costs, monitor manufacturing, and ensure the quality of the final product.

  • Communication Team: Information: identify, place, channel

  • Design and Marketing Team: Ideas: develop, design, implement

  • Technical Team: Machines: prepare, set up, operate

  • Research Team: Experiments: plan, conduct, evaluate

  • Finance Team: Budget: plan, optimize, manage

Here they learn how important their individual tasks and personal commitment are to the success of the whole. At the end of the day, there is a finished product that can be taken home. This makes connections as tangible as teamwork, communication, economic thinking, and technical processes. At the same time, young people learn about various professions in the plastics industry and gain orientation for their career and study choices.

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Information about booking for schools

The offer is aimed at school classes from grade 9, usually with 15 to 26 students. The day course is professionally supervised by the team of the zdi student lab; in addition, a teacher is required as a supervisor.

The zdi student lab investMINT Oberberg is usually bookable on Wednesdays and Thursdays during the school year.

Thanks to funding under the program „zdi-BSO-MINT“, the offer can be conducted free of charge for schools. Under certain conditions, travel costs may also be reimbursed. Please contact us for more information.

Daily schedule

  • 08:30 AM: Joint start in the communication center (Room U32)

  • 12:15 - 1:00 PM: Lunch break with the option to buy a snack at the kiosk for a small fee. Vending machines for drinks are available.

  • 4:30 PM: End of the lab day

Booking

Registration is done online. Here you can book your desired available date.

The required participation and consent forms are available in the download section below.
For the booking, we need the following documents before the start of the course :

  • The completed registration form with data transfer declaration for each participant. The annex „Registration Form_Student Lab“ listed below contains detailed information on this.

  • We would also like to use photos of the event for our online presence and press releases. For this, we need the signed consent form from all participants. For minors, the signature of the legal guardians is required (see documents).

Please send the documents to:

Oberbergischer Kreis
The District Administrator
Education Office
Ms. Sandra Welter
Moltkestr. 34
51643 Gummersbach

You can have any bus costs reimbursed afterwards. However, we kindly ask you, if possible, to use public transport for arrival and departure. If this is not possible, please discuss the travel costs in advance with Ms. Sandra Welter (sandra.welter@obk.de).

For reimbursement, please attach the bus company's invoice to the above-mentioned documents, including your school's bank details.

Insurance

Register the lab day as a school event through your school administration.

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Booking documents

Registration for participation in a career orientation program

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Consent for photo and video recordings

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Contact persons

Mirco Rödder, Head of zdi Student Lab investMINT (Vocational College Dieringhausen)

02261 9680 612
roedder@bk-dieringhausen.de

Bastian Thelen, zdi Network Coordinator investMINT Oberberg (Education Office Oberberg)

02261 88-4012
bastian.thelen@obk.de

Sandra Welter, Accounting (Department for Schools and Education)

02261 88-4003
02261 88-972-4003
sandra.welter@obk.de
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Ernst-Zimmermann-Strasse 26
51645 Gummersbach-Dieringhausen

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