Storytime at the Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering
Francophone storytime visits the Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering
Photo: FVST
With the motto "There are great things to discover in the world - and the most beautiful is to make discoveries and inventions!", Benoît Fond, junior professor at the Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, read from the French picture book "L'Inventeur / The Inventor" on November 3rd. After the story, the children had the opportunity to carry out simple experiments themselves - as a reward, they were given a research diploma and the pocket warmer from the faculty. For the younger siblings, the family office provided the mobile game box.
The Institut français Sachsen-Anhalt, the Association Au Clair de la lune e.V. and the Magdeburg Public Library have been organizing "Francophone Storytime / Heures du conte francophone" since October 2013. Every first Thursday of the month at different cultural centers in Magdeburg, volunteers read francophone fairy tales in their mother tongue and take children and parents on fabulous journeys through culture and language. In November 2015, the humanoid French robot Nao (based at the Otto von Guericke University’s Chair of System Theory and Control Engineering) was invited to storytime at the Schauspielhaus. After the story of the universe and Mars, he organized Thai Chi exercises with the children. In March 2015, Prof. Dominique Thévenin read French stories at the Georg Philip Telemann Conservatory.
The next Francophone storytime will take place on December 8th in the Christmas atmosphere of Café Stübchen at Festung Mark. Young and small are taken on a trip to the winter's far north - to the "Banquise" - into the polar ice by Marie Prikhodko (volunteer agency Magdeburg e.V.) and Célia Bernez (OvGU language center). Following the story, a flashlight-guided tour for children will take place throughout the entire Festung Mark.