{"id":384,"date":"2019-11-15T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T17:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:44:59","slug":"technocamps-joins-in-the-fun-at-swansea-science-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/2019\/11\/15\/technocamps-joins-in-the-fun-at-swansea-science-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Technocamps Joins in the Fun at Swansea Science Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kicking off the half-term holidays in Wales, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/research\/in-the-community\/swansea-science-festival\/\"><strong>Swansea Science Festival<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;is an annual treat for both children and grown-ups, offering hands-on exhibits, live experiments and techie workshops keeping visitors entertained for the entire weekend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organized by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/\"><strong>Swansea University<\/strong><\/a>, Technocamps was once again privileged to have been asked to participate at this exceptional, family-focused event. &nbsp; It was an opportunity to showcase the work that we do with schools across Wales and to raise awareness of the fact that Computer Science is an exciting sector in which to work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents in attendance applauded the work that we do and admitted that they had been \u2018dragged\u2019 to the Technocamps stand by excited children, many of whom had undertaken workshops in their schools. &nbsp;One parent, in particular, recognized the impact that the project has had on his 10-year-old daughter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>You came into her school a few weeks ago and she hasn\u2019t stopped talking about robots since. &nbsp;She\u2019s even asked for her own&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sphero.com\/education\/\"><strong><em>Sphero<\/em><\/strong><\/a><em>&nbsp;for Christmas so she can programme it to do some really cool things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s activities were particularly stimulating exciting with visitors working on code-breaking and cryptography tasks. &nbsp; The team taught our amazing Sphero robots to swim and showed how clever our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/education.lego.com\/en-gb\"><strong>Lego<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;Mindstorms EV3s are when placed inside a maze. Our Technocamps Delivery team and Ambassadors did an outstanding job keeping hundreds of visitors entertained and informed throughout the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as having a stand at the event, we were also able to offer, for the first time, our full Butterfly Hunter workshops to the general public. These workshops have been delivered in collaboration with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatr-nanog.co.uk\/\"><strong>Theatre n\u2019a NOg<\/strong><\/a>, in schools across the country since the start of the school term. &nbsp; Technocamps has worked with the theatre company to develop classroom resources using inspiration from their fantastic play about scientist Alfred Russel Wallace (also known as the Welsh Darwin) who came up with his own theories about evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshops take the \u2018Butterfly Hunter\u2019 theme and move it into the field of Computer Science, teaching the principles of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. An innovative and creative way of combining arts and science subjects in the primary school classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to thank the University for inviting us to participate \u2026 see you at the same time, same place, next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking off the half-term holidays in Wales, the&nbsp;Swansea Science Festival&nbsp;is an annual treat for both children and grown-ups, offering hands-on exhibits, live experiments and techie workshops keeping visitors entertained for the entire weekend.&nbsp; Organized by&nbsp;Swansea University, Technocamps was once again privileged to have been asked to participate at this exceptional, family-focused event. &nbsp; It was an opportunity to showcase the &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/2019\/11\/15\/technocamps-joins-in-the-fun-at-swansea-science-festival\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,268,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-news","category-news-and-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Technocamps Joins in the Fun at Swansea Science Festival - Technocamps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technocamps.com\/en\/2019\/11\/15\/technocamps-joins-in-the-fun-at-swansea-science-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Technocamps Joins in the Fun at Swansea Science Festival - Technocamps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kicking off the half-term holidays in Wales, the&nbsp;Swansea Science Festival&nbsp;is an annual treat for both children and grown-ups, offering hands-on exhibits, live experiments and techie workshops keeping visitors entertained for the entire weekend.&nbsp; Organized by&nbsp;Swansea University, Technocamps was once again privileged to have been asked to participate at this exceptional, family-focused event. &nbsp; It was an opportunity to showcase the ... 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