Three classes from the Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in Unterhaching (LMGU) have won the “student competition for political education” organized by the Federal Agency for Political Education.
Unterhaching – Class 6d from the Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium is going to Bonn for a week. Because the students took first prize in the student competition for political education. Pupils recorded a podcast on the topic “When children don’t have childhoods”. Her lively, varied and at the same time very well researched contribution, enriched by interviews, was particularly praised. The class convinced the jury with great commitment and creativity. The students intensively examined the various aspects of child labor and held discussions, including with a manager from the automotive industry. Teacher Stephanie Wolf found it particularly nice that all the children could be heard somewhere on the podcast and that everyone contributed their part. It is particularly positive that in the meantime the students have become aware that it is not just about a great prize and their performance, but that this is a very serious issue and that they themselves can do something against child labor — if only by making others aware of it.
Class 8f, a support class for the gifted, won second place with a multimedia presentation in the category “Criticized Street Names”, endowed with 1500 euros. As the supervising teacher Karin Bovelli explains, the students have concentrated on three streets or squares in Munich: Kolumbusplatz, Ludwig-Thoma-Straße and Robert-Koch-Straße, where renaming is being discussed. To do this, they looked into the lives of the people mentioned, researched which steps are necessary to change the street name and discussed whether the street name in question should be changed. Interviews with the historian Andreas Heusler from the Munich City Archive or with passers-by were integrated into the presentation.
Class 9a, led by Christiane Wagner-Klein, won a cash prize of 250 euros for the project topic “Built on sand?!”. They dealt with the problem of the increasingly scarce raw material sand, one of the most used and often illegally mined raw materials in the world. In their contribution, they clearly showed the consequences of global demand for people and nature.
The director of the student competition, Hans-Georg Lambertz, surprised the classes in class and presented the winner’s certificates. A total of over 350 prizes, including eleven class trips, go to school groups from all over the world.
For the 52nd time, all German-speaking schools in the world had the chance to submit a creative project on one of the competition topics and win one of the prizes.
