Analogue vs. digital: A cross-divisional project between the carpentry and the IT

Some time ago, our IT trainer Klaus Hoffmann noticed that his trainees liked to play chess but unfortunately did not have any chess boards. As luck would have it, the participants in our pre-vocational training group "materials processing" led by trainer Patrick Reis are now specialists when it comes to making elaborate chess boards with filigree wood inlays. Thus, a cross-divisional project between the pre-vocational training and the IT training was decided on the short official channels.

Laura and Dominik, two participants in the pre-vocational training group "materials processing", have been patiently working on two chessboards in the carpentry workshop over the past few weeks, because the millennia-old inlay craft is very time-consuming and tricky. Today they finished the chess boards and handed them over to their colleagues from the IT department, who were visibly delighted.

While the wooden chess boards were being produced in the carpentry workshop, the future IT specialists programmed a chess game as a computer game at the same time. This is even suitable for beginners, as all possible moves are displayed on the chess board in advance. Now they can play a game of chess against each other either the analogue or the digital way, depending on their mood.