Children get an insight into the world of science

Every year on “Nationaler Zukunftstag” (National Future Day), Swiss students aged 11 to 13 get a day off from school and are encouraged to visit a parent’s or a relative’s workplace to understand what their profession is about. The FMI organized an afternoon of educational and fun activities for our young visitors, who extracted DNA from onions and looked at squiggly worms, ‘immortal’ hydras and even their own cheek cells under the microscope.

phones or webcams. TikTok has rocketed in popularity since its debut in 2014 and is now a top social media platform for teens and young adults across the world. The ubiquity of platforms such as TikTok help the FMI share science stories and news from the institute with an even bigger audience.

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