ARCHI meets HONEY AI literacy
Students successfully use 21st century skills by project based learning
Teachers matter – so that students can matter. That is the core idea of “Science on Stage“ (https://www.science-on-stage.de).
Matter what? Diversity? Freedom? Innovation? All of them. Our students showed what matters: having ideas, letting themselves be inspired and excited and this even beyond national borders.
On March 9 March 2025 Yasin Al-Noman (10b), Tosca Arndt (8b), Maresa Horn (10d), Jonas Kemper (8d), Klemens Klüppel (9a) and Christian Schnell (8d) were informed about an international jury’s judgement: being selected next to nine other out of 17 European teams in the “AI STEM challenge 2025“ and being invited to travel to Berlin from the 5 to 7 June 2025. To do what?
Firstly, to meet other interesting students from Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK, Poland, Greece and Italy. To be part of a community of diverse people having different skills, interests, hopes and dreams for the world they live in. „To make connections with other students out of other countries and with different but sometimes similar interests. To actively speak English, overcome the language barrier and improve the own English skills“ was also important according to our student Christian Schnell. Finally, to experience to feel free and to have all the opportunities to be active, creative and thus innovative. Joining such an international competition is one of the possibilities that matter.
What happened before?
Accompanied by motivated STEM teachers our students could build trust in their idea to solve a problem and during this process creating something new: the intelligent nose with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
At every innovation‘s beginning there is a question. The students asked themselves whether it is possible to find out what kind of type the school‘s honey is. “You can already analyse the honey in a laboratory. But this analysis is complicated and expensive. Therefore our team tried to create a new, alternative way to classify the honey type.“, said Christian.
How does it actually work? A sensor was brought in class by a teacher and the students were asked for which purpose it could be programmed. The students quickly found the honey production as a good example of broadening and practising their skills. Christian said: “The gases released by our Archi honey chemically react with a layor inside the sensor.“ And Yassin added: “Different temperatures influence the chemical reaction.“ The team explained all in all: “By using several sensors with different heating cycles, a unique profile of gas can be created which is then processed by our AI. It is then able to classify the honey type.“
The honey production itself is a good example of innovation as well which was inspired by our former prospective teacher and now substitutional teacher Robin Derichs. Without this initiative and a school‘s mindset which lets each others‘s ideas grow this would not have happened.
Taking into consideration scientific standards and approaches as well as the chances of AI the students developed an astonishing application and plan to creatively and collaboratively implement it in the future.
All the students and teachers involved in this project believed in their idea and team spirit and could therefore persuade the jury in Berlin on Friday 6 in a sensational way and finally could win the 1st place (German article: https://www.science-on-stage.de/news/die-gewinnerinnen-der-ki-challenge).
Being awarded by Franziska Giffey, Berlin‘s Mayor and Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises who was accompanied by Beatrice Bracklo, Director Public Policy DACG, Amazon and Indra Hadeler, Managing Director Eduaction and International Relations, Arbeitgeberverband Gesamtmetall e.V. the students were very proud of what they achieved.
The students prepared everything on their own and were interested in learning what they can do better next time. They were honest to themselves and humble till the very end.
And what‘s best?
The team wants to go on improving their AI application. The teacher‘s and school‘s support will definitely be with them.
CONGRATULATIONS to the winners oft he AI STEM Challenge!
