Apprentices build electric motors with schoolchildren

Door-opening day at Ziehl-Abegg

22.10.2019, 12:51

Apprentices build electric motors with schoolchildren

On October 3, Westdeutscher Rundfunk's "Sendung mit der Maus" once again hosted a door-opening day. This is when companies give children access to production facilities and salesrooms. Ziehl-Abegg has now extended this campaign to all six continents.

Understanding technology: Using muscle power to release the brakes on an elevator motor. © Ziehl-Abegg

The goal is clear: "Every child will go home with a working electric motor today," says Sophie Grill at the start of the Mouse Door Opener Day on October 3. To achieve this ambitious goal, the 23-year-old apprentice from the Künzelsau-based industrial company Ziehl-Abegg and six other apprentices have spent almost nine months preparing for the event. As always on October 3, the Westdeutscher Rundfunk's "Sendung mit der Maus" invited them to a door-opening day.

Ziehl-Abegg has been a regular participant since 2016. In 2019, however, the specialist for fans and electric motors went one better: not only in Germany, but around the globe, on six continents, from Australia and Singapore to Brazil and the USA, children were asked to build small electric motors at Ziehl-Abegg locations or in schools. And for the first time, the door-opening day was planned and realized entirely by trainees. Sophie Grill, a second-year industrial clerk apprentice, was in charge of the project.

In Germany, Ziehl-Abegg opened its doors at the plant in Kupferzell. The plant is located just a few kilometers from the headquarters in Künzelsau. 30 girls and boys between the ages of nine and 12 were invited. There were more than 200 applications for the coveted 30 places. So it was down to the luck of the draw. Sophie Grill reports that 80 children around the world took part in Mouse Door Opener Day. The campaign day was held in schools in South Africa and Brazil. as

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