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discovered 01.13 Panorama WWW.Hzdr.DE Girls' & Boys' Day 2013 a huge success Twenty-seven girls and boys took part in this year's national Girls' & Boys' Day at the HZDR. They started their discovery tour at the DeltaX School Lab and in the HZDR's chemistry and microbiology labs where real-world chemistry and physics experiments awaited the junior researchers. As part of their tour, all of the kids had to don lab coats and wear safety goggles. The girls and boys got to tour the research technology department and also visited the administrative offices where they got to watch HZDR employees at work in the different workshops, in purchasing, logistics, HR, and finance and were given the chance to ask all their questions. HZDR equal opportunity officer Heidemarie Heim and the organizers were delighted at the students' keen interest and active participation. Although Denise Reichel is the latest addition to Nadja Gneist's school lab team, which she joined in May of this year, the thirty- year-old physicist is not new to the HZDR. Since 2008, Reichel has been working at the Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, first as a scientific associate and, thereafter, as a Ph.D. student. She went to university in Freiberg and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and, in 2006, along with members of her cohort, founded the "Freiberg Science Café" – scientists who welcome you for lectures and discussions. She gained her first experience working with students as a science tutor and also volunteered in the DeltaX School Lab, where she contributed her expertise to various projects. First-ever teachers continuing ed in Freiberg More than 80 teachers from all over Saxony took part in this year's teachers continuing ed day on the topic of "Germany is a raw materials country: Resources on and under Earth's surface." Every year since 1998, the HZDR has been offering at least one continuing ed day on current research topics - this year, a new feature was the close collaboration between the HZDR and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Four scientists of the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology from the fields of mineralogy, mining, and biotechnology vividly discussed their projects. Participants were even able to try and assess the densities of different types of rocks. The day ended with a visit to the minerals exhibit "terra mineralia" at Freiberg castle. Backup for DeltaX School Lab

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