Venture Camp / Sommer- und Wagniscamp

Summer and Venture Camps at the Coburg
During two weeks in July 2023, two combined summer and adventure camps took place at the Coburg in Münster, just like last year. The camps were organized by the German Alpine Club (DAV) together with the Otto-Creutzfeldt Centrum (OCC) and were sponsored by the city of Münster and the DJK Sportstiftung.
This year, for the first time, it was an integrative camp with a total of 30 children in each of the two weeks, with 10 of these children from each of two wards of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the University Clinics in Münster. The children were able to climb on a climbing or bouldering wall, ride a lift truck to a height of about 10 meters, or even immerse themselves in virtual realities using VR. In doing so, they could face various daredevils, such as confronting spiders, thunderstorms, dark places or stepping onto a free-standing observation plank on a skyscraper. The goal of the camp was to have fun and enjoy playing together as well as to strengthen the children's self-efficacy in passing the dares. The children were enthusiastic about the integrative camp and it was enormously gratifying to see how many more dares the children were eventually willing to take than they had initially thought themselves capable of. More integrative camps are already being planned for next year 2024.

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Herr Tie
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Neuroscience in School

The OCC offer teaching material "Wir sind Hirnforscher" for a 2-week project including the robot „Herr Tie“ to primary and secondary schools in Münster.

The robot can move around the room, avoiding obstacles on its own, and he even can change direction at the children's verbal command. The project was completed with a question-and-answer session about the brain with OCC PhD students. Interested schools and teachers can contact the OCC coordinator for further information.