Science Day – a familiy day on the Polymer Educational Path
- Date: Apr 28, 2024
- Time: 10:00 AM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Prof. Dr. Katharina Landfester a.o.
- Location: Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
- Room: Outdoor area
- Host: MPI-P / AK Landfester
- Contact: kunststoffpfad@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

We cordially invite you and your family and friends to visit the Polymer Educational Path. Our programme is specifically tailored for families and young people, who will have the opportunity to either walk along the Polymer Path and discover lots of amazing things or to take part in one of the programme options. This will include the Kinderuni in the Staudinger lecture hall on the topic of microplastics presented by director Katharina Landfester or speed dating with scientists from our institute, where you and your children have 5 minutes to ask them all the questions you always wanted to know. There will also be a photo competition for school children with an exciting first prize: come and spend a whole day at our Max Planck Institute, meet researchers from all over the world and get to know their work in the laboratories, which are equipped huge electron microscopes and other fascinating machines.
PROGRAMME:
10.00-10.30
Kinderuni: "How
does so much plastic end up in the ocean?" with Prof. Dr. Katharina
Landfester
Staudinger lecture
hall
10.45-11.30
Guided tour 1: "How
did it actually start with plastics and where can they be used?"
Meeting
point: Timeline
station
10.45-11.15
Speed dating: „What
does plastic got to do with bio?“ with
PhD student Sarah Chagri
Meeting
point: Bioplastics
station
11.45-12.30
Guided tour 2: „Why do
we have so many rubbish bins and how can
plastic waste turn into a new bottle?“
Meeting
point: Bioplastics
station
12.00-12.30
Speed dating: „How can
plastic help the body?“ with University
Professor Dr. Volker Mailänder
Meeting
point: Medicine
station
13.00-13.45
Guided tour 3: „What do
polymer researchers actually do today and what are their visions for the future?“
Meeting
point: Research
station
13.30-14.00
Speed dating: „What
makes the mobile phone screen light up?“ with
PhD student Franziska Walz
Meeting
point: Research station
Free admission
Photo
competition for schoolchildren:
Anyone aged 9-19 can take part in the photo competition. The motto:
What is a polymer for me?
The photo motifs should be found exclusively on the polymer path. Send the
photo to the following address: kunststoffpfad@mpip-mainz.mpg.de and take
part or let your children's imagination run wild!
1st prize: 1 day at the MPI for Polymer Research
2nd prize: Stainless steel drinking bottle
3rd prize: Notebook made from apple peelings and cores
Closing date for entries: 5 May 2024
Click
here for the conditions of participation