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Bring your child to work day 2025 at the Department of Applied Physics

Bernadette Gehl-Väisänen
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The Department organized a small program for employees and their children to enjoy the day together on 21. November 2025
Children and adults gathered around a table in an office. Text reads 'Children's Day at Work' and 'PHYSics Aalto Diversity Team'.

Children at our work place

The Department of Applied Physics, in conjunction with our Diversity Team, invites employees and their children every year to participate in Children's Day at Work. This day is a national event to promote integration of children into adults' lives and workplaces.

Employees' children could choose between crafting rolling cylinders (and testing those on a slope), visiting the Nanomicroscopy Center or making ice cream. All activities were provided by Jami Kinnunen and his student Applied Physics Outreach Team and OtaNano staff scientist Ramzy Abdelaziz. A big thanks to both and the students for providing and guiding the activities!

More information about Children's Day at Work at the .

People standing and sitting in a room with tables and chairs, engaging in various activities. A child is pointing at something.
Children queuing to make ice cream
Four people are gathered around a table with craft supplies in a room with a projector and a plant.
Testing how fast the cylinders roll- and learning something about the moment of inertia
People are gathered in a modern room with tables, chairs, and a potted plant. Artworks are displayed on the wall.
Ice cream in the making
People standing in a queue indoors, with a screen and posters on the wall in the background.
Eager waiting
Children and adults in a room with tables and chairs. Some children are playing with toys on a table.
Our craft station
A table with a hot drink topped with whipped cream and sprinkles, surrounded by cups, toppings, and a bag of marshmallows.
Finished product with toppings
People are gathered indoors, sorting items into black plastic bags. A table with supplies is in the foreground.
The ice cream is made in bin bags!
A child in a pink shirt writes on a large blackboard filled with rocket equations and diagrams in a classroom.
Decorating our blackboard
People playing table tennis indoors. Others are standing and talking. A child is playing at a table in the background.
Fun with table tennis and table football
Two children drawing on a whiteboard in a classroom. One draws an airplane, the other colours a shape. Posters are on the wall.
Testing our whiteboards
Contact and more information

Contact and more information

Senior University Lecturer
jami.kinnunen@aalto.fi
+358407607670

Ramzy Abdelaziz

Staff Scientist
ramzy.abdelaziz@aalto.fi
Bernadette Gehl-Väisänen

Bernadette Gehl-Väisänen

Coordinator
T304 Dept. Applied Physics
bernadette.gehl-vaisanen@aalto.fi
+358503451227
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