There were beaming faces at the Protestant daycare center on Hohe Straße in Diez when Kurt Krautscheid (front), President of the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts, visited and presented the winner's plaque. Along with the preschool children, daycare director Annett Schmak (front), as well as teachers Magdalena Srokosz (second from left in the back) and Ulrike Knoke (right in the back), thanked the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts and the roofing company Salvatore Mannino. Employees Denis Szymik (left) and Fazel Khanan (right) from the company were also present. (Photo: © Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts/Dagmar Schweickert)
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July 10, 2026
The president of the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts (HwK), Kurt Krautscheid, presented the preschool children with their winner's plaque and repaired the roof of their playhouse with them.
The preschool children of the "Auf der Hohen Straße" daycare center in Diez have become state champions in the nationwide "Little Hands, Big Future" daycare competition for skilled trades . The goal of the annual competition is to give children hands-on experience with skilled trades. Nationwide , 370 daycare centers submitted entries, 30 of which came from Rhineland-Palatinate . As part of the competition, local craft businesses gave the children insights into their trades. In Diez, this was the roofing company Salvatore Mannino. Afterwards, the young tradespeople "processed" their experiences on posters. The Diez children's oversized artwork impressed the jury so much that they took first place in Rhineland-Palatinate. Eleven state champions were chosen nationwide. In addition to a winner's plaque, the Diez daycare center can look forward to prize money of 500 euros for a daycare festival or a project day focused on skilled trades.
Kurt Krautscheid, president of the Koblenz Chamber of Skilled Crafts , presented the young craftspeople and the daycare team in Diez with the winner's plaque. And because practical experience trumps theory, he, a master roofer himself, joined forces with two roofers from Diez to repair the roof of the playhouse in the daycare garden together with the preschool children.
Background: Daycare competition Background The kindergarten competition is an initiative of Aktion Modernes Handwerk eV (AMH) and is supported by chambers of skilled crafts, district craft associations, and guilds nationwide. "The entries impressively demonstrate how intensively the children engaged with skilled crafts, both in the practical work on-site and in the creative follow-up. It is particularly remarkable how naturally the children developed their own ideas and implemented them with a wide variety of materials," says Robert Wüst, Chairman of the organizer Aktion Modernes Handwerk eV (AMH). The next edition of this successful initiative is already being prepared for 2026/2027: The 14th competition round will begin in the fall.
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