Start of the semester in Senftenberg for students and staff

All students – first-year and higher-year students alike – as well as lecturers and staff are warmly welcome to the start-of-semester celebration in Senftenberg. This is an opportunity to get to know one another (including across different disciplines) and to make new contacts, and perhaps even friendships.

Admission is free and no registration is required. 

Programme

Start: 7.00 pm
doors open from 6.30 pm
Hosts: Paul Sinschek (BTU), Daniel Ris (Artistic Director of the Neue Bühne Senftenberg) 

• Welcome 

  by Prof. Dr Gesine Grande, president of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, 
  and students Leonie Tabel and Jakob Schellschmidt

• Supporting programme 

  including a quiz on the town of Senftenberg and the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, organised by Mayor Andreas Pfeiffer and District Administrator Alexander Erbert, a performance by ‘T’s and Drums’ — a band made up of teacher-training students from the BTU — the humanoid robot Ami as a learning coach in the biotechnology laboratory, virtual reality, the internationally successful student team Lausitz Dynamics and their self-built energy-saving vehicle, the HydroRaycer, a presentation of the current programme at the Neue Bühne theatre and musical excerpts from the theatre’s new productions, as well as a prize draw for free tickets to the FestSpiel anniversary

• Get-together: Party with free beer, snacks and dancing