Smiling Faces: Four Regional Wins for the Steinmühle School & Boarding School at “Jugend forscht”

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Germany’s best-known competition for young talent in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology—Jugend forscht—kicked off on Friday. And once again, this competition ended with an outstanding performance by Schule & Internat Steinmühle!

 

Standing out among 34 teams

At the Central Hesse Regional Competition, coordinated and organized jointly by Justus Liebig University Giessen and the Technical University of Central Hesse, Steinmühle took home the regional title with no fewer than four projects! A total of 34 teams presented their research and experiments to a 24-member jury, after which other interested attendees had the opportunity to ask the participating groups various questions.

 

Collaboration Between Two plus-MINT Boarding Schools

We’ll be presenting the experiments over the next few days, including, as a special feature, a collaborative project with the Louisenlund Foundation—which, like the Steinmühle, is a plus-MINT boarding school. We’re proud of the entire group, including the teachers led by MINT coordinator Dr. Jutta Töhl-Borsdorf. Thank you all so much! Simply amazing!

 

Tabea Moses from Steinmühle is Marburg’s best story reader

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Lisa Braun, a German teacher at Steinmühle, shared some great news: Tabea Moses from Class 6a at Steinmühle is Marburg’s best reader! This was the decision of the jury at the regional round of the 66th Reading Competition of the German Book Trade. The panel consisted of two booksellers, a linguist from Philipps University of Marburg, the artistic director of the Waggonhalle Marburg, an author, an employee of the city library, and last year’s city winner, Judith Ruff. Next up for Tabea is the district round, where she will represent the city of Marburg.

“You all did a fantastic job. You’ve read aloud in front of others time and again at your own schools, and now once again today here in front of a jury—that takes a lot of courage,” said Mayor and Head of the Youth and Schools Department Nadine Bernshausen during the Marburg city finals in the Building Authority Hall on Barfüßerstraße.

 

Clear pronunciation, varying speed and volume

The jury particularly liked about Tabea, “…how you gave the characters their own voices. Your pronunciation is clear and easy to understand. We were also impressed by how you vary both the speed and the volume to suit the story.”

 

“I like stories with suspense and a spooky vibe”

Tabea Moses chose a passage from Kaja Bergmann’s *Gabriel: Duel of the Angels* to read aloud: “What I like about the book is that it starts off slowly, so it’s easy to get into, and then it gets really exciting. I like stories with suspense, thrills, and mysteries,” said Tabea Moses. Tabea has been interested in books since kindergarten and would try to decipher the words because she wanted to know what they meant and what the story was about.

 

School libraries also encourage reading

As a child, she read a lot from a very early age, and as a teenager she rediscovered her love of reading through the school library, the reading competition, and her little sister, to whom she often read aloud.The photos (Stefanie Ingwersen/City of Marburg) show Tabea with her mother Katja Moses (left), her friend Amelie Michanikl (second from left) and Mayor Nadine Bernshausen (right), as well as in a group photo with the other contest participants.

Second Place for Our Elementary School Student Aurelia at the 64th Math Olympiad

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It was an exciting day for Aurelia Wild, a fourth-grader at the Steinmühle Bilingual Elementary School: She had registered for the 64th Math Olympiad, and now the Hesse state round was getting underway. After a welcome address at the Mathematikum in Giessen by its director, Prof. Albrecht Beutelspacher, Aurelia and her fellow contestants were shown to their workstations. For two hours, the children worked on interesting math problems before they had the chance to thoroughly explore the experiments at the Mathematikum. During this time, many dedicated teachers graded the submitted assignments.

 

“Silver” in the state competition

At 2:00 p.m., the awards ceremony finally began. First up were the third-graders, and the excitement kept building—even for Aurelia. Then the certificates of participation were awarded to the fourth-graders—and that’s when it became clear that Aurelia was among the winners. She was overjoyed when she was even called up to receive second place!

 

Parents Thank Teachers for Their Motivation

Aurelia proudly accepted her certificate and prize. She’s already certain: “I’ll be back next year!” The teachers led by Lorraine Herrmann from the administration of the Bilingual Elementary School and Steinmühle Principal Björn Gemmer are also proud. Aurelia’s mother, Lydia, is delighted: “We’d like to thank Steinmühle for encouraging its students to participate in competitions like the Math Olympiad.”

Talented female students paint vivid pictures at the 6th-grade reading competition

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We started the new year with some great news from Grade 6: students Romilda, Carla, Nika, and Tabea successfully participated in the 2024 reading competition for Grade 6 students at Steinmühle. The competition, which takes place at the end of every year, once again showcased the reading skills of our lower school students.

All four of them knew how to bring the characters, the plot, and the atmosphere of their chosen passages to life and captivate their classmates—who were listening from the steps of the open learning area in the Centrum—with their readings. Whether it was about Ms. Honig, Harry Potter and his adversary, the youngest agent Ruby Redfort, or the Three Investigators: Romilda, Carla, Nika, and Tabea delivered impressive performances on Wednesday, December 11, in this second round as well, after having been named “winners” within their classes in the weeks prior.

 

Tabea is launching at the city level

In the end, the so-called “external text”—which the students had to read—proved to be the deciding factor, so the jury—composed of the German teachers Lisa Braun, Dagmar Müller, Nina Merzenich, and Frank Wemme—in consultation with the fellow students invited to help with the evaluation, Tabea Moses from class 6a—selected her by a narrow margin to represent the school in the third round of the competition at the city level, expected to take place in February.
A heartfelt thank you to all the readers and the wonderful audience for the delightful reading moments at Steinmühle, and good luck to Tabea in the next round.🍀

Frank Wemme

Recognition for Dedication to the Steinmühle School Garden

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Great news to end the year: In the 2024 school garden campaign organized by the magazine “Mein kleiner schöner Garten” (published by Burda in Offenburg), the team led by teacher María Ramos won a gourmet gift package worth 50 euros from TressBrüder. Principal Björn Gemmer congratulated the team on this prize and the accompanying certificate, which recognized their interest and creativity, and thanked María Ramos for her ongoing dedication to gardening and for participating in the contest.

In fact, we’re all already excited to see what will grow, thrive, and bloom again at the Steinmühle this spring and summer!

 

 

“For projects with exceptional appeal”: Steinmühle School & Boarding School received the 2024 MINT Star

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A grand reception on our campus: Steinmühle welcomed a five-member delegation to accept a very special award in the STEM field. The Association for Electrical, Electronic, and Information Technologies (VDE) and the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) awarded the Steinmühle School & Boarding School the STEM Star 2024, thereby recognizing “outstanding and sustained commitment to the fields of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology.”

 

The interplay between the disciplines was convincing

Individual teachers and teams from schools in Hesse were eligible to apply. “With a STEM Star, we recognize projects and programs that demonstrate exceptional impact, continuity, and ingenuity,” said Dr. Kevin Rick, director of VDE Südwest. The award was presented to STEM coordinator and head of the STEM gifted education program, Dr. Jutta Töhl-Borsdorf, her colleague Antje Seel, and her colleague Dr. Patrick Szabo. “Without qualified guidance that inspires students and spurs them on to peak performance in research and experimentation, such outstanding achievements would not be possible,” commented the laudators, including Thomas Beiderwieden from VDE Rhein-Main and Christian Entsfellner from DARC, in recognition of their work. In the case of Steinmühle’s winning project, “Water Analysis 2.0,” the jury was particularly impressed by the interplay of the disciplines involved in the project—ranging from ecology to programming to model building. The team of students from the Plus-MINT track at the Steinmühle boarding school thus advanced to the national finals of “Jugend forscht” this early summer. This project involves a measurement platform developed and built by the students themselves to determine water quality (we have reported on it several times).

 

Minister of Culture as Patron

“Steinmühle is delighted to receive this very special award and is proud of everyone who contributed to it through their hard work, perseverance, and dedication,” said Principal Björn Gemmer on behalf of the award recipients, who received certificates and prize money totaling 1,500 euros. For Steinmühle, this serves as an incentive to continue investing energy in this area. Because, as you can see, it’s worth it in every way!

The award ceremony, held under the patronage of Armin Schwarz, Hessian Minister of Culture, was celebrated by the participants with a meal together in the dining room of the Steinmühle. And there, too, there was plenty of praise—for our cuisine.

 

We would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations on earning your Cambridge Certificate!

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Once again this year, students at Steinmühle who earned the Cambridge Certificate achieved outstanding results. This was reported by teachers Nicole Hohm and Matthäus Otte.

The English language plays a central role at Steinmühle: Students at the Bilingual Elementary School begin learning English in first grade; they can later deepen their knowledge of the language in the International High School track or, if they enroll in the regular high school track, further develop their language skills by earning the Cambridge Certificate.

Congratulations to our recent graduates!

The following people participated (front row, from left to right): Flora Endres, Marvin Preis, Marc Wirth, Julius Henkel, David Immel, Joel Rucker, Hessein Koheil, Leon Schmidt, Elsa Stremme, Anna Reinhardt.

Back row, from left to right: Zoe Reisch, Janne Elsasser, Aurora Valente, Lia Kraft, subject teacher Nicole Hohm, Mia Dotzauer, Hanna Schmidt-Dege, Rebecca Zenker, Alicia Bruchmann, Emilia Sperl, Emily Böth, Marharyta Diachenko, Amelie Laukel, subject teacher Matthäus Otte.

Missing from the photo: Sophia Nolte, Joshua Müller-Brodmann, Leticia Günther, Ivo Hamann, Mike Klatt, Zoe Potthoff, Alexander Trofimov, Rakim Tsegay, Lukas Zimmer, Melina Mengel.

Steinmühle won the Marburg ABI Cup!

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Now that’s what we call taking care of things in a timely manner! The Steinmühlen Class of 2025 kicked off its final school year with a great idea: It organized a citywide soccer “ABIcup” and invited the soon-to-be high school graduates from all schools in Marburg to participate.

The tournament took place on September 21 at the Cappeler Köppel Stadium. The modest admission fee of 2 euros and the proceeds from the sale of hot dogs and drinks went toward the ABI fund. “The ABI Cup organized by the Steinmühlen Class of 2025 was meant to be a change of pace from the usual graduation parties,” reported Alicia Spitzhüttl on behalf of the graduation committee. “We also wanted to bring schools together and strengthen the bonds within our own class. The highlight of the tournament was, of course, that our boys were able to bring home the victory!” she said happily.

The Steinmühle’s Class of 2025 promoted the event—and later its results—on their Instagram account. By the way, the students there would definitely appreciate some followers and likes! They’ve certainly earned them for bringing their great idea to life.


Another Certificate: Steinmühle Is an “Eco-School”

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The Steinmühle has once again been awarded the “Environmental School – Learning and Acting for Our Future” certificate. Steffen Ullwer reports on this. He accepted the certificate on behalf of Carmen Bastian, who worked tirelessly to secure the certification for the Steinmühle.

This award is part of a joint initiative by the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment, which recognizes schools for their exceptional commitment to “Education for Sustainable Development” (ESD). This year, a total of 94 schools from across Hesse were honored for their outstanding contributions to integrating sustainability topics into the classroom and school life.

 

Environmental Awareness and Sustainability Embedded in Everyday Education

 

Steinmühle impressed with two innovative projects: In the STEM field, the students developed an autonomous, low-cost boat for determining water quality that enables efficient water sample analysis. In addition, the school participated in the “Miyawaki Forest” project, which supports the rapid establishment of biodiverse mini-forests on small plots of land, thereby making an important contribution to reforestation and climate protection.

Through its commitment, Steinmühle demonstrates how important it is to embed environmental awareness and sustainability in everyday education from an early age and to actively involve students in shaping a sustainable society.

Our photos show Steffen Ullwer receiving the certificate from Ute Visser, regional director of the Environmental Schools program for the Roßberg Youth Forest Camp area, along with a large group of representatives from the award-winning schools.

 

Steinmühle Once Again Recognized as a STEM-Friendly School

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Once again, Steinmühle was recognized as a STEM-friendly school yesterday, Wednesday. Dr. Jutta Töhl-Borsdorf and Dr. Sven Freibert accepted the award in Philippstal, North Hesse, representing Steinmühle as the only participating school from Marburg.

 

Steinmühle Receives Top Rating

 

“In the evaluation, the Steinmühle was ranked at the highest level,” said Dr. Jutta-Töhl-Borsdorf happily.

According to the two teachers, in the morning, participants were able to visit the training center of the host company, K+S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH Philippsthal, and gain interesting insights, for example, into dual degree programs.

The schools were honored by Sabine Stuhlmann (MNU Hesse Regional Association and the NaWi LoLa project), Benjamin Gesing (Executive Director of MINT Zukunft e.V.), and Harald Fisch (Senior Advisor at MINT Zukunft e.V.). The awards are valid for three years.

 

Recognized and supported by the business community

 

Mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology (MINT) have become increasingly important for school development. The award-winning “STEM-friendly schools” demonstrate that their educational approach enables them to integrate ad hoc measures—such as those related to digitalization—into everyday school life in a didactically and pedagogically sound manner. The “STEM-friendly schools” gain visibility among students, parents, businesses, and the general public through this recognition and are not only acknowledged but also receive special support from the business community. Nationwide partners of the national initiative “MINT Zukunft schaffen!” (Creating a Future with STEM!) honor those schools that consciously prioritize STEM. The schools are evaluated based on a rigorous, standardized set of criteria and undergo a nationally uniform application process.

The group photo, taken by Uwe Handke on behalf of the organizer, shows Dr. Jutta Töhl-Borsdorf and Dr. Sven Freibert holding their award certificates during the ceremony.

 
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