Regional engagement
Understand AI.Help shape the future.
AI should not only be a topic in companies—it should also reach the place where the future is shaped: schools.
OUR ENGAGEMENT IN LEVERKUSEN
- Pro bono
- Sharing practical knowledge
- Grades 7–9
- Using AI for their own ideas
- Leverkusen
- Making a difference locally
LEARNING BY DOING
Turning curiosity into projects.
That is why we contribute pro bono as speakers in the City of Leverkusen's AI working group and support students in grades 7–9 in understanding AI and applying it meaningfully to their own projects.
Understand the basics
We make artificial intelligence accessible and create room for questions.
Explore ideas
We help young people use AI meaningfully in their own projects.
Progress as a team
We support collaboration that makes knowledge and progress visible.
WORKING TOGETHER FOR EDUCATION
A place to explore AI and robotics.
Our engagement takes place around the lev creation lab—an extracurricular learning environment for AI and robotics in Leverkusen. According to the project management, it is funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the EU as part of the “Pact for Computer Science”, offering multiple formats to inspire young people early for AI/robotics and motivate them toward internships, vocational training, or university studies in IT/digitalization.
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INITIATIVE & PROJECT LEADERSHIP
Felix Schwanke
City of Leverkusen · Municipal Education Office
The lev creation lab is initiated and led by Felix Schwanke (City of Leverkusen, Municipal Education Office). In this project, he connects educational stakeholders, schools, and practitioners to make AI and robotics topics understandable, interactive, and project-based for young people.
Felix Schwanke on LinkedInFROM IDEA TO OUTCOME
Structure for student projects.
To turn ideas into real projects, teams need structure. Students use Teampilot as their workspace to:
This creates not only outcomes, but also a clean project process that makes learning progress visible.
How that helps us in client projects- 1
capture tasks and next steps,
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document knowledge and research findings,
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collect and improve interim results,
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make teamwork easier and more transparent.
USING AI RESPONSIBLY
Understand what we use.
Using AI requires resources. That is why, at the end of the school year, we address sustainability in AI usage with a simple and practical indicator:
We aggregate the group's token usage and make visible how intensively AI was used in the project.
Important:
The token value is not an exact environmental measurement, but a transparency and learning instrument.
The goal is conscious usage: ask more precisely, reduce unnecessary loops, and get better outcomes—instead of “more AI at any cost”.
What students learn from this:
AI is a tool: quality also depends on clear tasks, good sources, and clean documentation.
Efficient usage is part of responsible practice.
Education needs people who share their knowledge.
Discover the programmes and work of lev creation lab.