Kangaroo goes Science
On Friday, 22 June more than 90 girls and nearly 80 parents attended the first Kangaroo goes Science event organized by the Department of Mathematics, the association Kangaroo Switzerland, the ETH Zurich and the Zurich section of 500womenscientists.
After a warm welcome by Meike Akveld, President of Kangaroo Switzerland and Sarah Springman, Rector of ETH Zurich, the girls and their parents listened to an inspiring lecture by Marloes Maathuis on the importance of mathematics in everyday life using soccer pictures as an example.
The mathematics lecture was followed by the presentations of three female students who talked about their personal experiences and challenges of a students life at ETH.
The morning event was rounded off by the award ceremony for the top five best girls of the competition.
In the afternoon the girls had the chance to visit laboratories at ETH and University of Zurich together with female students. Among other things, they learnt how plants react when they are stressed, how materials can be cut with lasers or how colourful nanoparticles can be produced.
At the final reception the girls could recall the days' events and hopefully left ETH full of lasting inspiration and enthusiasm for science and technology.