Potential
mint & pepper awakens children's interest early on and boosts teenagers’ enthusiasm for apprenticeships, research, and professional careers in STEM fields, referred to as MINT fields in German. Outstanding talent should be recognized early on and nourished, encouraging outstanding young people to develop their talents and pursue careers in these fields.
News
Key Figures
2018
Wyss Zurich admission
9
Team size
Wyss Zurich admission
Team size
Project Description
mint & pepper aims to inspire kids and teenagers for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), life sciences and entrepreneurial topics, to make them ready for the future, but also to strengthen the innovation location Switzerland.
In practical mint & pepper workshops, children and young people learn to better understand our technological world. The offerings give them profound insights into new technologies. They discover STEM and their individual strengths in very practical applications, develop solutions for real life challenges and - broaden their horizons for training and career choices. In keeping with Switzerland’s “Lehrplan 21” curriculum project and the latest research on teaching and learning research, mint & pepper develops modules and workshops for the upper primary school level and secondary school levels I and II.
mint & pepper has also expanded its portfolio of workshops to include so-called education services. Partners can thus be supported in the development and expansion of engineering and concept development for the promotion of young talent, for example, mint & pepper developed the CYBATHLON-@school modules for the CYBATHLON of the ETH Zurich.
With the launch of the talent program Wyss Zurich BioSTARS program in 2023, mint & pepper also offers special insights into life sciences and entrepreneurship in addition to STEM topics. The program aims at talented and life science enthusiastic teenagers from 16 years on in order to nourish and accompany them on their educational path.
Contact
Hanna Behles
Project Leader
hanna.behles@wysszurich.ch
Faculty Mentor
Stefan Bertschi
Partners and Funding
Project Partners
- ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
- Achtung Technik Los!
- Creativelabz
- Cybathlon ETH Zurich
- Educamint
- IngCH
- Startbahn29
- Sciencecité
- Swiss Space Museum
- Schoolplus
- Little Scientists Academy
- Stiftung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi
- Kovive
- Roteco
- Treffpunkt Science City
- Scientifica
- Schulwandel Stiftung
- Girls Code Too
- KIDSinfo
- Industrielle Berufslehren Schweiz
- Informatiktheatre
- Informatiktage
- Kanton Glarus
- Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- OR-X
- Augmedi AG
- Apersys AG
- CUTISS AG
- MUVON Therapeutics AG
- MYNERVA
- Somagenetix AG
- Nanoflex Robotics AG
- Tandem Therapeutics AG
- Recolony AG
- Tethys Robotics AG
Funding Partners
- ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
- Gebert Rüf Stiftung
- ABB
- Swisscom
- Bärbel und Paul Geissbühler Stiftung
- The Cogito Foundation
- Accentus
- Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
- EPFL
- Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI)
- Digital Switzerland Next Generation
- Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz
- Hasler Stiftung
- IngCH
- Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- Migros Kulturprozent
- Nanoleaf
- Swiss National Center of Competence in Research
- NCCR Automation
- Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich
Project Partners
- ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
- Achtung Technik Los!
- Creativelabz
- Cybathlon ETH Zurich
- Educamint
- IngCH
- Startbahn29
- Sciencecité
- Swiss Space Museum
- Schoolplus
- Little Scientists Academy
- Stiftung Kinderdorf Pestalozzi
- Kovive
- Roteco
- Treffpunkt Science City
- Scientifica
- Schulwandel Stiftung
- Girls Code Too
- KIDSinfo
- Industrielle Berufslehren Schweiz
- Informatiktheatre
- Informatiktage
- Kanton Glarus
- Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- OR-X
- Augmedi AG
- Apersys AG
- CUTISS AG
- MUVON Therapeutics AG
- MYNERVA
- Somagenetix AG
- Nanoflex Robotics AG
- Tandem Therapeutics AG
- Recolony AG
- Tethys Robotics AG
Funding Partners
- ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
- Gebert Rüf Stiftung
- ABB
- Swisscom
- Bärbel und Paul Geissbühler Stiftung
- The Cogito Foundation
- Accentus
- Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich
- EPFL
- Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI)
- Digital Switzerland Next Generation
- Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz
- Hasler Stiftung
- IngCH
- Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
- Migros Kulturprozent
- Nanoleaf
- Swiss National Center of Competence in Research
- NCCR Automation
- Switzerland Innovation Park Zurich
