Jobs out of the box – MINI MINT
MINI-MINT is a hands-on RealityCheck format for primary schools (ages 6–10). Simple experiments in mathematics, science, and technology are combined with authentic examples from companies. Children explore phenomena, conduct small experiments, and learn directly from company representatives why mathematics and science are relevant in everyday professional life. This playful and low-threshold approach helps to answer the question “Why do I learn this?” at an early age.
In line with the regional STEM strategy of Upper Styria East, an additional box was developed and tested within the RealityCheck. Unlike traditional sector-based approaches, this box allows pupils to experience professions across the fields of STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – in a practical and interdisciplinary way.
The implementation takes place within school lessons as part of the cross-curricular subject “Education, Career and Life Orientation” and therefore belongs both to the formal curriculum and the non-formal learning context.
Bring Your Child to Work-Day
Employees of companies are invited to take their children to their workplace for a day. The “RealityCheck” approach to this is: Children increasingly do not know what their parents are “really doing”. A “take-away” to the work of father and mother can offer an authentic insight into a section of the real working world.
At the same time, this shared experience enables a family discourse on work and the world of work.