Children's university lecture on the subject of genetics

Pupils from third to sixth grade are invited to attend on Wednesday, 14 January 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, 15 January, 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's main campus in Cottbus.
Further information:
https://www.b-tu.de/unileben/btu-region-erleben/kinder-jugendprojekte/kinderuni-cottbus

The speaker is Dr Anne Kammel, MUL-CT, Institute for Laboratory Medicine.

Do all babies have blue eyes? Why do I have a different eye colour to my parents? And why does my boyfriend have red hair? Why do some children look exactly like their parents and others don't? Why are some twins confusingly similar and others totally different? Why are siblings very similar in many ways and very different in others? And what does all this have to do with our genes? What are genes anyway and does everyone have them? In this children's lecture, we will get to the bottom of the mystery of genes and discover together how GENial (our) genes are.

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 about solutions to 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:

In its next event, the BTU School University will focus on numerical simulations. Interested students from years seven to ten are invited to attend on 28 January 2026 at 15:30 on the Cottbus main campus. Dr Marten Klein from the BTU's Chair of Numerical Flow and Gas Dynamics will be the officer on the topic of "How do wind turbines & co. get into the computer?".

The next Children's University event will take place on Tuesday, 3 February 2026, at 9:45 a.m. in the Piccolo Theatre. Under the heading "Clear the stage for team players! - A day at the Piccolo Theatre", all participants of the excursion can expect an exciting theatre tour and the workshop "Teamplayer".

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