During school holidays, the Scienteens Lab offers computer science workshops that can be booked individually. These free workshops, aimed at young people aged 12 to 16, allow them to discover digital sciences through practical activities.
The programme:
This workshop explores algorithms, coding and robotics in order to compare how humans and robots act or react. The hands-on activities allow pupils to answer questions such as: What makes robots different from humans? Do robots think differently than humans? How can we interact with robots?
This 3-hour workshop is divided in three parts of one hour each entitled “55 minutes to understand” :
- 55 minutes to understand algorithms: Think like a robot
- Participants learn about different type of algorithms, how they can be used in our daily life to solve different kind of problems and what is the link with artificial intelligence.
- 55 minutes to understand coding: Talk like a robot
- Participants discover the history of computers and code, learn more about code development and do a series of plugged (only on campus) and unplugged exercises.
- 55 minutes to understand robotics: Act like a robot
- Participants explore how to make a robot walk through hands-on experiments, explore the idea of self-consciousness and expression of emotions in a robot and reflect on concrete applications for robots through the example of the QT robot (robot only on campus).
This workshop will be conducted in English. (French version in the morning)
No prior knowledge of computer science needed.