Coding for Climate Action
Summer 2023 the project Coding for Climate Action starts in the region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A joint learning and teaching programme for primary and secondary school students from the Future Engineer initiative and Calliope, which teaches them in 12 teaching units how computer science can help to protect against the consequences of climate change. In addition to learning about existing early warning systems, students learn about the causes of climate change on the one hand and the basics of computer science on the other.
The students use their new skills to program the Calliope mini microcontroller as an early warning system for natural disasters.
Code Your School
With the Code Your School campaign, we support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in projects and activities at schools. We want to promote the realisation of projects that are related to the students' living environment and reflect global challenges such as health, education or climate protection.
In teams, the students develop and present their creative approaches to solving challenges in their everyday school life. In doing so, they learn to develop and evaluate innovations and make their contribution to the development of a modern, fair society.
Whether advanced or just starting out, everyone is invited to join in, develop, implement and present their ideas. We provide material for the classroom, for the individual realisation of internal Code Your School actions and offer online sessions for preparation and exchange.
Calliope x Future Engineer
The digitalisation of our lives not only has advantages, it also creates inequalities in our society. Not only is the older generation often unable to keep up with digital acceleration, but our children and young people are also not being introduced to new technologies in the same way; digital skills and their acquisition are strongly influenced by social background.
This is where we come in: our aim is to awaken an interest in technology at an early stage in schools with a weak infrastructure and in schools with a high proportion of socially disadvantaged pupils - and to promote the associated skills such as logic, analytical thinking, fault tolerance and the ability to work in a team.
CalliopEO - Calliope Earth Observation
With the Calliope mini to the International Space Station - The CalliopEO campaign offered all schoolchildren the opportunity to fly their ideas into space in 2022. In collaboration with the German Space Agency at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the children were able to experience life on the ISS up close and personal and even give the astronauts something to take with them on their voyage of discovery.
The Calliope mini was installed on the ISS in spring 2022 by the German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer so that the experiments developed by school classes with the Calliope mini and sent to the ISS could be carried out there. Over 50 teams with almost 400 participants sent 120 projects to the ISS.
The teams were rewarded with a hand-signed certificate from Matthias Maurer. Many thanks to Matthias Maurer for the many signatures! 🙌
Code4Space
Primary school children from the 3rd grade onwards could take part in the competition of the Roberta Initiative and the First Female German Astronaut foundation in teams together with a supervisor and submit their programs and ideas for a Calliope mini experiment. In the final round, the final teams finalized their experiment at the Code4Space camp together with the scientists and astronauts Dr. Suzanna Randall and Dr. Insa Thiele-Eich
In November 2022, the time had come and the Italian EAS astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti led the Code4Space winners Experiment “Space Bounce Ball”.
