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has made me more certain than ever<br />
that science and physics in particular<br />
are the direction I want to take in my<br />
future career.”<br />
During the internship the young<br />
people also had the opportunity to<br />
offer their ideas to shape the content<br />
of future courses. “They could formulate<br />
their own questions, for instance<br />
on the heart topic,” Ulrike Mittmann<br />
said. “Processes like atherosclerosis<br />
are still in the remote future for these<br />
young people. We want to know what<br />
they are really interested in.” Thus,<br />
the question whether James Bond in<br />
the movie “Casino Royale” could really<br />
rescue himself with an electric shock<br />
– he grabbed his portable defibrillator<br />
out of the glove compartment and<br />
shocked his heart back to life – led to<br />
the idea of showing this movie clip as<br />
an introduction to the heart course.<br />
Other questions the ninth graders had<br />
been wondering about also came up,<br />
such as: “Does a hole in the heart<br />
always require surgery?” The teenagers’<br />
feedback and input will flow into the<br />
heart project of “GenaU”, a network<br />
of student labs at research institutions<br />
and universities in Berlin and<br />
Brandenburg.<br />
Besides assisting in the courses,<br />
doing their own experiments and<br />
learning theory, routine work for the<br />
courses also had to be done in the<br />
student internship: weighing chemicals,<br />
preparing the gene lab, laying out<br />
materials such as Eppi reaction tubes<br />
and pipette tips at the workplaces.<br />
“That is also part of our work,” Ulrike<br />
Mittmann said. “And of course it was<br />
quite natural for the young people to<br />
share in doing the lab chores.”<br />
Christin (15) is a student at Ernst<br />
Reuter High School and would like to<br />
become a chemist. That is why she<br />
applied for an internship in the Life<br />
Science Learning Lab. “The experiments<br />
were what I enjoyed most,” she said,<br />
“especially making gummy bears.”<br />
She worked together with Emél (14)<br />
from Robert Havemann High School.<br />
Emél chose the internship because<br />
she is curious about everything that<br />
has to do with human biology. She<br />
was already acquainted with the Life<br />
Science Learning Lab and had been to<br />
Berlin-Buch several times. When asked<br />
what she had gained from the internship,<br />
she answered: “Now I know that<br />
I do not want to work as a biologist<br />
in the laboratory. What I would like<br />
to study or become instead? – I’m not<br />
sure. Perhaps dentistry or training as<br />
a dental technician.” However, she still<br />
has plenty of time to try out different<br />
options, reflect on these and decide.<br />
Like the two girls, Daniel (14) and<br />
Fabian (14) from Robert Havemann<br />
High School came to quite different<br />
conclusions after the student internship.<br />
While Daniel doubted whether<br />
chemistry would be the right choice for<br />
him, Fabian’s ideas of what it would be<br />
like to be a researcher in a laboratory<br />
were confirmed.<br />
For children and young people who<br />
participate in the courses and take<br />
part in the internships of the Life<br />
Science Learning Lab, this is often the<br />
first time they come into contact with<br />
CaMpus anD people<br />
scientific work. So it was for Josephine<br />
Jahnke (20), who is currently training<br />
to be a biology lab assistant at the<br />
MDC. As a former student of Robert<br />
Havemann High School she visited the<br />
Life Science Learning Lab repeatedly<br />
in her courses in biology. “Today I am<br />
very glad that I went to this school<br />
because otherwise I would never have<br />
hit upon the idea to become a biology<br />
lab assistant,” she recalls. “Now I<br />
am in my second year as trainee and<br />
already work regularly in the research<br />
group of Professor Michael Bader. And<br />
I find working in the lab to be lots of<br />
fun.”<br />
“Through the internships we often<br />
inspire interested students to embark<br />
on science careers,” explained Claudia<br />
Jacob, project director in the Life<br />
Science Learning Lab. “Several former<br />
interns support us at the experimental<br />
stands during the Long Night of the<br />
Sciences or during the activity days<br />
of the Technology Foundation Berlin<br />
at the Urania venue. Quite a few are<br />
now studying science at university.<br />
Under certain circumstances, a career<br />
in science can begin with a class visit<br />
to the Life Science Learning Lab. It<br />
has not yet been decided whether the<br />
team of the Life Science Learning Lab<br />
will repeat the format of the compact<br />
internship in the next school year, but<br />
the conclusion of the organizers, course<br />
leaders and students is clear: The<br />
compact internship for the ten students<br />
was a complete success!<br />
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