Children's university lecture on the topic of drones

Pupils from third to sixth grade are invited to attend the event on Wednesday, 10 December at 5 p.m. in the large lecture theatre of the Konrad Zuse Media Centre on the university 's Campus Senftenberg.
Further information:
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte/kinderuni/kinderuni-senftenberg

On Thursday, 11 December,this 45-minute children's university lecture will take place at 3pm and 5pm in the central lecture hall building, Audimax 2, on the BTU'smain campus in Cottbus.
Further information:
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte/kinderuni-cottbus

The officer is Matthias Nattke, teaching and research fellow at the BTU's Chair of Factory Planning and Operation.

Drones are small flying robots that are equipped with cameras, lasers or thermal imaging devices. They fly over fields, construction sites or large factory halls and take pictures from there or measure everything very precisely. This allows people on the ground to see what things look like in these places - without having to be there themselves. This is particularly useful if a roof is too high, a site too dangerous or a field is huge.
With the help of drones, farmers, for example, can recognise whether their plants have received enough water, or construction workers can check whether a building is still in good condition. This saves time, money and makes work much safer.
But there are also things that need to be taken into account: Drones are not allowed to fly everywhere, for example not near people or during storms. Care must also be taken not to take photos of private property. In the future, drones are set to become even smarter. Perhaps they will then fly in groups, think like little computers and help even better in surveying and protecting our world.

The children's university lectures are intended to awaken an interest in solving scientific problems at an early age and give children the opportunity to experience the flair of a university.
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg thus gives schoolchildren from the third to sixth grades the opportunity to get a taste of university life and teaches them how to solve everyday scientific phenomena in a child-friendly, exciting way. This encourages formative experiences that awaken the youngest children's interest in science and reduce their inhibitions about university.

Outlook:

The BTU School University will be focussing on numerical simulations in its next events. Interested students from years seven to ten are invited to attend on Wednesday, 17 December 2025 at 4 p.m. on Campus Senftenberg and on 28 January 2026 at 3:30 p.m. on the Cottbus main campus. The officer on the topic of "How do wind turbines & co. get into the computer?" is Dr Marten Klein from the Chair of Numerical Flow and Gas Dynamics at BTU.

The next Children's University events will take place on Wednesday, 14 January 2026, at 5 p.m. at the Campus Senftenberg and on Thursday, 15 January, at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the BTU's main campus in Cottbus.
Under the heading "GENial - why do I look so much like my parents?", these events will focus on the topic of genetics. The speaker will be Dr Anne Kammel from the Institute of Laboratory Medicine at the Medical University of Lausitz - Carl Thiem.

Further information is available at
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte