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Germany is in need of more children with a sincere interest in technical matters and natural sciences. The CLAAS Foundation shares this opinion. To make children see the fun in technical matters at an early age, the non-profit Foundation repeats an initiative at kindergartens and primary schools- this time it is Gütersloh.

What is the concept of this “kids-engineering-activity”? The CLAAS Foundation offers tailor-made trainings to the Kindergarten and Primary school teachers. These trainings are carried out by the experts of the renowned learning institute “Science Lab”. „We wish to provide the teachers with the necessary know how and munitions to make the children curious about natural phenomenon“, says Sylvia Looks, director of the CLAAS Foundation.

Sylvia Looks continues: „After the training the kindergarten or primary school obtains a set of material, the so-called „researchers’ box”. With the boxes the children can then start experimenting straight away. “

Technical experimenting is fun... this is what the CLAAS Foundation wishes to convey. Researchers’ boxes are ready for primary schools and kindergartens in Gütersloh. From left: Dr. Vera Romberg-Forkert (Science Lab instructor), Sylvia Looks and Nadine Tänzer (both CLAAS Foundation).

Commissioned by the CLAAS Foundation, the renowned non-profit learning institute Science-Lab, which has already managed to inspire a great number of teachers in the past, is going to organise one-day trainings for the kindergarten teachers and half-day trainings for primary school teachers. All kindergarten and primary schools are going to get mail by the CLAAS Foundation within the next couple of days being invited to take part in this training round.

The CLAAS Foundation was established eleven years ago to make a contribution to education and research in (agricultural) engineering and affiliated science fields and has already set up a grand selection of various projects. To spark children’s interest in technical and science matters and give them a chance to research more in depth, Bad Saulgau and Osnabrück became the homes of new Student Research Centres. Next to their normal school routine the young tinkerers, aged between 10 and 18 can work on technical and scientific projects- similar to the competition “Youth Research”. The two Student Research Centres are actively supported by the CLAAS Foundation.

The Helmut Claas-Scholarship of the CLAAS Foundation is aimed at the target group of students. Here students are awarded for their outstanding performances in engineering, agricultural engineering, agricultural sciences and also economics.