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Where you are born determines your chances (not): Interactive workshop
During this interactive workshop, a VIA Don Bosco employee will come to your school to get the students to think critically in an interactive way about the question: 'Does your crib determine your further opportunities in your life?'
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How to organize a successful fundraising campaign: Workshop
During this workshop you will learn everything about how you can organize a fundraising campaign with your class or school. During the workshop you will receive many tips to increase yields.
VIA Don Bosco can come to your school and also offers the …
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Dealing with Socially Acute Questions in the English-Language Classroom
This article provides tools that second language teachers can use for a constructive intercultural dialogue in the event of socially undesirable interactions in a mixed language group. A case study of a racist statement during an interfaculty …
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Rocket Fun: Design, Launch and Improve
In this super fun workshop, the participants will look for the properties of an ideal rocket. How many fins are optimal, at what launch angle does the rocket fly the furthest, how sharp should we make the tip, and should it be weighted or not? And …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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Support: If you are having psychological difficulties or want to support others
The app offers action tips and concrete knowledge to strengthen your own well-being and that of others.
- In the app you can work on self-care.
- You learn to recognize signals when someone has psychological problems.
- You will find information and tips …
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ZoJong!: Young carers
On June 23 it is Day of Informal Care. Did you know that an estimated one in five students are young carers? That is about twenty thousand to forty thousand young people who grow up in a family with someone who needs help. On the website …
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Menstrual shame and poverty: Lesson sheet
On the basis of statements, situations and a creative assignment, young people in this lesson openly discuss menstruation. On the one hand to break the taboo and the shame that surrounds it. On the other hand, to make young people aware of the …
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Will we soon be walking around with a computer in our brains?
A computer used to take up an entire room, while now we have one in our pocket or on our wrist. Can we go one step further and soon we will be walking around with a computer in our brains? As a microelectronics engineer at KU Leuven, Prof. Dr. …
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Why will data become your most important asset in the future?
The amount of data on the internet is growing like a spear and is visibly changing our economy. Who owns that data and who benefits from it? In this lecture, Prof. Erik Mannens (Ghent University) explains it and states that you may be able to …
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Will sudoku creators soon crack your bank details?
Seeing someone on the train solve a sudoku may not be as innocent as you think. Who knows, maybe that sudoku freak is out for a prize of a million dollars or worse: your bank details! Because believe it or not, in sudoku you may find the solution …
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Can you teach a computer to cycle?
Can a computer learn to ride a bike like humans? Prof. dr. Dr. Ann Nowé hasn't tried it yet, but she's been working on it all day. In the Artificial Intelligence Lab (for those in the know: AI lab) of the VUB the word "self-learning …
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