Our head of the PhotonLab school laboratory, Dr. Silke Stähler-Schöpf, has been awarded this year’s Georg Kerschensteiner Prize. The award is presented by the German Physical Society for outstanding achievements in the teaching of physics with a broad impact on the public. The price is also given for the didactics of physics in teaching in the field of higher and further education or in the research of teaching and learning processes in the field of physics education.