Children's university on the subject of thermal sensation

Pupils from third to sixth grade are invited to the current children's university lecture on Thursday, November 23, at 3 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. in the central lecture hall building, Audimax 2, on the university's main campus in Cottbus. Registration is not required.

On Saturday, November 25, this 45-minute children's university lecture will begin at 11 a.m. in the large lecture theatre of the Konrad Zuse Media Center on Campus Senftenberg. For this children's university lecture on the topic of "Why elephants don't sweat and astronauts don't freeze", please register by email at kinderuni(at)b-tu.de.

The focus this time is on the sensation of warmth. Exciting examples - including how elephants in Africa manage to give off body heat and what astronauts can learn from elephants, as well as an experiment - enrich the lecture and help to understand the topic even better.

The officer of this children's university lecture Prof. Dr. Peer Schmidt is Vice-President for Academic Affairs at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. He is head of the Inorganic Chemistry chair at BTU and teaches on the study programme Materials Chemistry.

Outlook:
Inquisitive students can already look forward to further children's university lectures, the next of which will take place on Thursday, December 7, at 3 pm and 5:15 pm at the Cottbus main campus and on Saturday, December 9, at 11 am at the Campus Senftenberg. The topic is: "Why do we have a fever? And what actually happens when we have a cold?"
On December 9, interested young people from the seventh to 13th grades are also invited to the next Student University lecture at the BTU in Senftenberg from 12:30 to 2 pm. "What are we made of and what makes us unique?" is the topic here.
The speaker - for both the children's university and the student university lectures in December - will be BTU academic Victoria Liedtke.

The first children's university lectures in 2024:
January 25, Cottbus main campus / January 27, Senftenberg campus:
"How does electricity get safely into our sockets?",
Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kathrin Lehmann
February 22, Cottbus main campus / February 24, Senftenberg campus:
"The bee colony governs itself - what does the beekeeper actually do?".
Officer: Sascha Leuschner, beekeeper

Background
Children's lectures are designed to spark an early interest in solving scientific and other problems and give children the opportunity to experience the flair of a university. The BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg conveys solutions to everyday scientific phenomena in a child-friendly, exciting way, creating formative experiences that are intended in particular to reduce the inhibition threshold to a university.

Further information can be found at
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte