CEPLAS at Girls' Day

The Girls' Day event aims to inform female school students about scientific and technical professions. CEPLAS participated in the event this year together with Wolf Frommer’s lab group coordinated by Marcel Buchholzer. 25 girls from the grades 8 to 10 signed up for the event and got insights into scientific work during virtual tours of a greenhouse and a laboratory. Via videos and live explanations, the girls learned how rice diseases are controlled in the lab. CEPLAS doctoral student Laura Redzich conducted an experiment to detect bacteria in rice. Afterwards, the students had the opportunity to ask questions. Thereby the different scientific careers were described and members of the lab group also reported on their motivation to become a scientist or a lab technician.