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Schulblatt - The contribution of mint & pepper on the topic of girls and STEM

10-12-2021 – Attracting girls to ITC careers with promotion programs in STEM. One such program is our outreach project mint & pepper. The project specializes in promoting young talent in STEM fields and offers various programs.

They learn how to make a robot dance or experience the fascination of electrical engineering: "Dance-Bots" and "Magic Cube" are just two courses offered by "Mint & Pepper" for school students. This offer originated at ETH Zurich. The first pilot projects at schools started in 2011.

Since 2018, one has been part of Wyss Zurich as a young talent development project, a start-up promoter of ETH and the University of Zurich.

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