The six-month program is meant to make the decision which STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) to study easier. The participating women do both practical studies in an institute or company, combined with study tasters at a university.
Following a short introduction to the institute, lectures on the physicist and engineering professions were given during the visit at the LZH at the end of November 2016. Subsequently, the participants could see the research and development work being done at four stations in the scientific departments. “They had already heard of the sensational proof of gravitational waves in September 2015 from the media,” said Mike Botts from the LZH. “We could explain the role that our laser systems played in finding these proofs, making this milestone in physics much more tangible for them.”
More information in German can be found at: www.niedersachsen-technikum.de.
