At the end of May I represented the School of Data at a day-long networking event aimed at people involved in improving general understanding and access to scientific and technical literacy, at all levels and areas of society, but particularly in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM, commonly referred to as MINT in Western European countries) education. The long term goals of the Swiss STEM Coordinating Group (MINT Leitungsgruppe / Comité directeur MINT) who ran the event is to address deficits in technology specialists in Switzerland, and I am thankful to the hosts for the opportunity to participate in the event.