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THE BRIDGE successful with research- and robot competition

Premiere of the FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Challenge in Central Hesse

POHLHEIM (rge/ger) – For the German-American Club DIE BRÜCKE Giessen-Wetzlar was the organization of the research- and robot competition FIRST LEGO League Challenge was the biggest task in recent years and was also a first. In the people's hall of the Limes town of Pohlheim near Gießen 100 Young researchers in 12 Teams aged between 9 and 16 years her results on the topic “Superpowered – The energy of tomorrow.”. In addition, the young people steered their self-built and programmed Lego robots through a task course. All this in front of a jury of personalities from universities, schools, politics and society. The patron was the director of the mathematics department in Gießen, Prof. DR. Albrecht Beutelspacher.

“In view of the highly motivated young people, I am no longer worried about the future of our business location.” District Administrator Anita Schneider

The district administrator of the Gießen district made it to the final of the research, which was held for the first time in Central Hesse in the Limes town of Pohlheim- and robot competition FIRST LEGO League Challenge in a nutshell. “In view of the highly motivated young people, I'm no longer worried about the future of our business location," she said, especially with a hopeful look at domestic companies, who are desperately looking for skilled workers. She especially praised the courageous organizers from the German-American Club DIE BRÜCKE Gießen-Wetzlar, who had brought this competition to the region and that in partnership with the association Hands on Technology based in Leipzig, which operates nationwide with educational programs.

After the final, Brücke President Petra Bröckmann and the officials presented gold medals and certificates to all participants and the winners their trophies in the research areas (Lucky Lego Group Giessen), core values (Roboldtianer Aßlar), Roboterdesign (Lords of the Stones Hadamar), Robot-Game (Lords of the Stones Hadamar) and coaching (Prometheus Herborn) present. The champion of the day was the Masch Misch High Voltage team from Friedberg. Thanks went from Bröckmann to all the bridge helpers around the organizers Henri Becker and Roger Schmidt, who had successfully mastered this challenging joint task of the club after the pandemic.

"We were able to establish a network from the US High School in Wiesbaden via the Technical University of Central Hesse, the Justus Liebig University, the media centers and schools, the Hessian Ministry of Education and companies, that helped us, to organize the FIRST LEGO League Challenge in Pohlheim.”

Robot showed at BRIDGE BBQ in the small animal park he can

Come together at the bridge-BBQ in remote forest with US high school students

FERN FOREST / CASTING / WETZLAR (rg / guardian / ger), This year was the German-American Klub THE BRIDGE Gießen-Wetzlar young American guests from the Wiesbaden US high school at the traditional BBQ guest. The group of students who came with their teacher Brian Barns in the small zoo in Steinbach and presented it one of them developed and built robots. Thus they demonstrated their work from the 25-member task force "RoboWarriors FIRST Team # 3011" with pupils aged 10 to 17 Years in which they had participated in the FIRST Robotics Competition. The international program is to introduce young people to science and technology, so this time the project was to build a robot for a space station "Destination: Deep Space“. The complex model had to be solved tasks of transportation. One of the FIRST programs for young people is to be established in central Hesse soon, announced bridge-President Roger Schmidt, together with the responsible bridge board member Henri Becker plans for 2020 an. Initial discussions with the central German organizers in Leipzig have already been held. Support from politics, Education and the economy were already signals for the new bridge projects in Central Hesse, so presentation robots were in the Fern Forest during the BBQ, among other things, the two Hessian state parliament Frank Tilo cup (Pour) and Frank Stein Raths (Lahn-Dill) interested and amazed guests American US about the complex project work of young people. They had just six weeks needed in their work after the regular classes. For the class fund there were ever a bridge-donation 200 Euro for the high school students and baseball club caps as a reminder of their visit. Success of the internship program was already on the bridge of the start this year. Project Manager Helmut Ott was here together welcome Joshua Pietz from the Univerity Wisconsin with the bridge members, the three months in the company ESE engineering and software development in the field of artificial inteligence (Of), thanks to the mediation of the member Daniel Pal working there, is working. Another intern is with Price Andrew Watson from Alabama currently at the cultural organization INTERKULTUR in Fernwald operates.

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CASTING – Auf eine Reise ins All zu benachbarten Planeten und fernen Galaxien nahm der diesjährige Ehrengast des Brücke-Neujahrsempfang 2018 , der Astronaut Thomas Reiter, die geladenen Gäste mit. Im Hotel Köhler waren die zahlreich gekommen, um von ihm persönlich zu hören und zu sehen, wie seine Erlebnisse beim Flug und seine langen Aufenthalte in der Raumstationen Euromir und später in der ISS waren. Begrüßt wurde er von den Brücke-Präsidenten Roger Schmidt und Petra Bröckmann. Dabei war auch VDAC-Präsidentin Sigrid Behnke-Dewath. there was music to set the mood from Giessen choral tone on tone Lützellinden led by Matthias Schulze.

 

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Here, the one-hour lecture by Thomas Reiter from 17. January 2018 … 

Bridge-Stammtisch “viral Blitzkriege: Marburg-, Ebola- and SARS infections”

Marburg virus expert gives a lecture at the bridge over epidemics of modern times
“viral Blitzkriege: Marburg-, Ebola- and SARS infections”

image_previewCASTING (guardian), At the Stammtisch of German-American Clubs "The Bridge" Gießen-Wetzlar on Wednesday, the 2. March at 19.30 At the Hotel Köhler in Gießen time the internationally renowned virologist Prof. DR. Hans-Dieter Klenk guest. The expert from the Institute of Virology at the Phillips University in Marburg is then on the latest developments of highly infectious diseases under the title “viral Blitzkriege: Marburg-, Ebola- and SARS infections” report and answer questions from the audience. Interested guests are welcome to this presentation.