We are all very happy that our first youngster signed his contract for an apprenticeship at the company Krauss GmbH. During the autumn holidays Hadi had the chance to get to know the company for surface treatment, which specialized in aerospace and other high-tech industries.
The training of sawing and screwing creates a product we can use for the Fliegerwerkstatt: the geosphere, which was constructed by the students of the LOTIS school, will become the lampshade for our meeting room.
“How did you end up in your job?” This time, prospective employers were interviewed by our young people. After the students had developed a questionnaire, the interview partners were invited to the Fliegerwerkstatt or visited in their firm. All entrepreneurs and employees willingly described what career path they have taken, which decisions they had to make and why, and what they really like about their job today.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the soldering works of our youth group were done!
On the last day before school holidays, the students not only get their school reports, but also certificates from the Fliegerwerkstatt. Time for feedback and the first success stories: two students have successfully completed their internship. And all students have learned basic skills, such as drilling, sawing, screwing, soldering and filing.
Two employees of BRAUCO, pipe and environmental services, arrived with two high-tech equipped vehicles to demonstrate to our young people the working methods and specific equipping for cleaning and maintaining drainage systems.
We need a shelf! So, let’s build it! Students of the Alfred-Nobel-School were practising working with wood and produced what was needed.
In celebration of the Fliegerwerkstatt’s roll-out social return invited 24 entrepreneuers to encourage support in aviation industry. Special guest and supporter of our initiative was Bertrand Piccard, adventurer and scientist who already completed a non-stop balloon flight around the world and currently runs the Solar Impuls 2 project to create global awareness of clean energy. With his personal experience, he inspired all those present to try the impossible, to develop pioneering and to implement sustainable ideas together.
Four teams were playing for the Cup!
Three teams of our partner schools and the aviators of our workshop:
For this question we sent for a specialist: our volunteer Michael Lein is an aviation professional and explained the young people in a very vivid way the physical background of buoyancy, air flow, force and counterforce.
For the small flyer the laws of physics are the same as for a giant Jumbo.
The catapults for self-created flyers are made of wood.
