Edda Jabben and Annika Reetz have completed their IHK apprenticeship as textile lab assistants at the Hochschule Niederrhein with excellent results. Jabben is even one of the 216 best IHK trainees in Germany and was invited to Berlin to be honored at the end of May.
Both completed a two-year dual apprenticeship as textile laboratory assistants at the Faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology. During this time, Reetz and Jabben learned to test physical and chemical properties of textiles. "I always had the opportunity to put my theoretically learned knowledge into practice in my apprenticeship company," says Annika Reetz about the combination of theory and practice during her apprenticeship. Edda Jabben adds, "Through the apprenticeship, you gain a good understanding of the properties of textiles."
In the summer of 2022, the two women took their final exams at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Mittlerer Niederrhein - with considerable success: both apprentices are among the best IHK trainees in the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia. Jabben achieved a final score of 99.5 points, while Reetz also did extremely well with 99.4 points. Since the final results are rounded up, both failed with the maximum score of 100 points.
For Edda Jabben, however, the honors did not end there, as her final result even placed her among the 216 best graduates of the IHK apprenticeship in Germany. All of them were therefore allowed to attend the IHK's festive award ceremony in Berlin.
After their apprenticeship at the Hochschule Niederrhein, Jabben and Reetz went on to study textile engineering with a specialisation in Textile Technologies. Both agree that the apprenticeship was an ideal introduction to studies for both of them. "Although The Hochschule Niederrhein is very practically oriented and you can apply your theoretical knowledge in various apprenticeships at the university, I found that the apprenticeship opened up completely different perspectives and allowed you to absorb the material you had learned from a different perspective," says Annika Reetz.
