Report on the summer festival 2019
The summer happening 2019 at theFaculty of Sports and Health Sciences
Become an eternal hero!
This year the summer happening of the Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences was themed "Prevention". For a long time, our team from the Student Health Management (SGM) at TUM thought about how to get this idea across best to everybody. So we finally decided to honor the best eternal "health" heroes
of our faculty - so you could put your health knowledge and skills to the test. In order to not automatically let the strongest student take the win and neglect the fun factor, we came up with a few little modifications.
In bright sunshine and temperatures well above the 20 degree mark, we started setting up on June 28 in the morning. And it didn't take long before the first guests arrived. Shortly thereafter, our play stations were well filled and the competition could begin. At the beginning, participants received a pass to collect points; afterwards they were free to decide at which station to start. One was able to prove to be a real "Mythbuster" by classifying as many of the health myths as possible as being "rather correct" or "rather wrong" (the health myths will be resolved here on the homepage over the next few weeks).
After this difficult brain teaser, some might have thought that joining "Charlie's Chocolate Factory" would include some sweets. But far from it: instead of something to snack on, there were ten pictures of different foods and drinks. These should be sorted according to their sugar content. Many were correct by putting Nutella at the top with 56.3 g sugar / 100 mg (solution of the sugar game). At the "Day After Tomorrow"
however, many participants struggled to correctly rate the carbon footprint of various foods (solution of the CO2 game). It came as a surprise to many that butter is the top scorer. If you want to find out why the carbon footprint is so important
click here.
Besides those three stations testing knowledge, at "15 Jump Street"
the participants fought a close neck-and-neck race as they tried to jump up exactly 15 cm off the ground.
Thereafter, at "Grey's Anatomy"
they were asked to estimate their heart rate after a short period of exertion.
This was by far the station at which participants misjudged the most. Maybe Dr. Meredith Grey should tutor some students in medical basics. But people were able to immediately let off steam by partaking in "Takeshi's Castle". Just as funny as in the original TV show our participants stumbled over obstacles (thanks to our "distortion glasses"). Despite poor visibility conditions the goal was to complete the Parcours with as few errors as possible.
After completing all six stations, the participants received a free drink from our partner, the Techniker Krankenkasse, as a small reward. We then evaluated all passes as quickly as possible. At our "hero award ceremony", three individual winners and three group winners were honored. They won food and beverage vouchers for the same evening. Exhausted, but satisfied, we took down all stations and then ended the evening comfortably at the summer party.
The prevention day 2019 was a complete success for our SGM team. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all students, visitors, children and lecturers who participated. Thank you for taking time to support our project. We hope everyone involved had fun and enjoyed the day.
We will continue our efforts in the future to bring you closer to the topic of our student health management at TUM.
Text: Julia Gröll, image: Barbara Reiner