On the 20th and 21st of June, students from RSL (Lycée Robert-Schuman Luxembourg) participated in our energy workshop as a part of their science project week. It was a dense two-day full immersion, but it was well worth it! In the picture, Phil & Bob exchange opionions with them.
A class from the Lycée Classique Diekirch (with their teacher Jean-Claude Jung), consisting mostly of future economists (!) came to our workshop to find out more about renewable energies. The bike station was definitely their favourite one! Our tutor Paula agreed with them: in fact, she said that she would like to stick to supervising this station in the future as it is the most fun one!
Aubin, Jeremy, Alessandro, and Maxime (and non-francophone Una as a moral and technical support) went to Lycee Vauban to deliver the short version of the workshop to 7 different classes. Here you can see some super cool photos with younger participants!
We are looking for you! In February, we had a training event to train additional workshop helpers to supervise the energy balance workshop. About 20 PhD students and postdocs from physics and engineering departments participated! It was a huge success in terms of participation & enthusiasm! Welcome folks! New trainers are now ready to welcome you at our next energy workshops! Don't miss the opportunity to know and talk with them.
We were pleased to welcome at Campus Limpertsberg the 6E class from Lycee Aline Mayrisch Luxembourg. Students came together with their maths teacher (even mathematicians find our workshop interesting!) for our energy workshop. This was fun!
Mäin Element - Phillip Dale
Can Luxembourg go 100% renewable?
The atmospheric Abbaye opened its doors to all the public! The public came to visit our stand N° 34 and learn more about renewable energies and climate crisis. A big thanks to Gilbert and Ed for upgrading our energy bike!
With the help of the University of Luxembourg’s photovoltaic cluster, the E4L team was present at the 2021 Science Festival explaining the principles of energy balance and investigating whether Luxembourg can indeed go 100% renewable or not. This was facilitated by the new hands-on energy balance board game. Now you can “weigh” your energy! 12 school classes took part in our short form workshop. The board game idea was a team effort (Phillip, Michele, Ricardo, Joana), but the design and the in-house build was entirely made possible by Ricardo and Joana. They really did an outstanding job!
The national newspaper the Wort ran a front-page news article on the need for energy balance given the growing global warming and featured our website. For the full article click here.
Alfredo, Michele, Phillip, and Una visited the class 3IEC of Solenn Bruneau to allow them to experiment with different types of renewable energy. The students could get hands on to see the effects of light intensity, wind speed and human strength on our ability to generate electricity.
Two of the students from this class wanted to find out more about the topic so they undertook a week-long internship at the university. Jasper visited us in August for his internship on solar cells (he visited photovoltaic labs of Profs Siebentritt and Redinger at the university…and of course Phil’s lab!). Eliott did a week long internship at Physics department in November with various physics research groups.
(Our interns Jasper (LML) and Teresa making their own dye-sensitized solar cell)
Una, Ricardo, Johannes, and Alfredo visited the 3CC class of Olivier Gauthier at Lycee Robert Schumann. We were very happy that we did not manage to activate the fire-alarm with our Stirling motor demonstration!
Conrad, Michele, Phillip, and Una visited the 3GSN class of Geoffrey Scharll to give the first hands on workshop featuring experiments of converting biomass to electrical energy, a human powered electricity generating bike, solar and wind energies. Two students from LTA also joined us later for a two-week long internship at the University of Luxembourg in October, where they had a chance to see the photovoltaic labs (LEM, LPV, and SPM) at the University, do some really cool experiments with solar cells together with researchers from the university, and learn more about renewable energies and carbon footprint at LIST.
Upper picture: Conrad, Phil, Michele, and Una setting up.
Bottom picture: Lea, Ben (from LTA), and Ilja visiting the photovoltaic labs at the University… with some really cool safety goggles.
Max leads a science café discussion on energy consumption with the first audience participation quiz using paper and pen. Michele and Phil run around like crazy adding up peoples scores to give them a certificate at the end of the café. There must be a better way….if only we had an online app… lets go and talk to Alfredo.
Phillip, Max, and Michele were interviewed by Science.lu in preparation for the Researchers’ Days 2018 (“Nos parents ont-ils épuisé toutes nos ressources énergétiques?”)