BRT actively participates in CZU Open Days, to engage with prospective students, showcase our research, and exchange ideas with faculty teams. This year, BRT PhD student Antoine Bercy led our booth—read about his firsthand experience!
Open Day is an opportunity to showcase BRT’s work to future university students and inspire them to follow a similar fulfilling career path. It is also an opportunity for us to interact with different teams from the FTZ faculty and update each other on our work. I really enjoyed going around the different booths and discovering what they displayed.
I found it quite difficult to condense all of BRT’s work activities onto only one table and I was tempted to bring too many items but not all of it would fit and I did not want to overwhelm potential students! I tried to follow a logical presentation, first explaining the cycle of organic material. The display of photosynthesis was to represent plant growth, before the generated material needs to be processed back into fertilizers. To accompany this display we also had lab equipment to show how we monitor the process. Finally, we presented an electricity generation kit with a fuel cell to show the possibilities of biogas generated from anaerobic digestion.
It is always gratifying to see the interest of new people in the importance of sustainable waste management and renewable energies, reminding us that we do important work and that there is a future for a livable, durable planet. Overall, it was a great experience. A good opportunity to talk about my work, discover what interests’ people, and practice adapting my presentation skills for the general public.
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