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mint & pepper

Empower future pioneers

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Potential

mint & pepper awakens children's interest early on and boosts teenagers’ enthusiasm for apprenticeships, research, and professional careers in STEM fields, referred to as MINT fields in German. Outstanding talent should be recognized early on and nourished, encouraging outstanding young people to develop their talents and pursue careers in these fields.

News

14-11-2024

Zukunftstag 2024 @ Wyss Zurich

This year, we welcomed over 20 young minds to widen their horizons and insights into the STEM world, with a special focus on robotics and regenerative medicine topics.

15-07-2024

World Youth Skills Day 2024

Youths bring hope to our world as agents of change for the future. This World Youth Skills Day (July 15), we want to celebrate and recognize the efforts of our outreach project, mint & pepper. mint...

Key Figures

2018

Wyss Zurich admission

9

Team size

Project Description

mint & pepper aims to inspire kids and teenagers for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), life sciences and entrepreneurial topics, to make them ready for the future, but also to strengthen the innovation location Switzerland.

In practical mint & pepper workshops, children and young people learn to better understand our technological world. The offerings give them profound insights into new technologies. They discover STEM and their individual strengths in very practical applications, develop solutions for real life challenges and - broaden their horizons for training and career choices. In keeping with Switzerland’s “Lehrplan 21” curriculum project and the latest research on teaching and learning research, mint & pepper develops modules and workshops for the upper primary school level and secondary school levels I and II.

mint & pepper has also expanded its portfolio of workshops to include so-called education services. Partners can thus be supported in the development and expansion of engineering and concept development for the promotion of young talent, for example, mint & pepper developed the CYBATHLON-@school modules for the CYBATHLON of the ETH Zurich.

With the launch of the talent program Wyss Zurich BioSTARS program in 2023, mint & pepper also offers special insights into life sciences and entrepreneurship in addition to STEM topics. The program aims at talented and life science enthusiastic teenagers from 16 years on in order to nourish and accompany them on their educational path.