[Yr11 Information Technology] NAO workshops for Students over the School Holidays

[Therese Keane]

Swinburne will again be running student workshops during the upcoming school holidays. Last year's workshops were very popular amongst secondary students. These workshops are aimed at students from Years 5-9.  Please feel free to distribute to your students.
Regards
Therese


School Holidays – NAO Workshops

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Swinburne University will be holding  NAO workshops for students over the school holidays.  NAO robotics course is designed to introduce students to programming and enable them to work closely with these robots. Students will be introduced to motion and sonar sensors, voice recognition and sound and vision tracking through hands-on practical activities which will bring the NAO robots to life.

What is NAO?

NAO is a little character with a unique combination of hardware and software: it consists of sensors, motors and software driven by a dedicated operating system. NAO gets its magic from its programming and animation.

The following workshops will be run over 3 days (9am-3pm) on:

Workshop 1 - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (30, 31 March, 1st April)
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2015/03/nao-robotics-course.php


Workshop 2- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday  (8,9,10 April).
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2015/04/nao-robotics-course.php


These workshops will be available to students from Years 5 -Year 9 and will be limited to 10 students per workshop.

The cost per workshop is $300.


Regards
Therese



Dr Therese Keane

Senior Lecturer in Education

Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

Department of Education and Social Sciences

Building: 14W

Phone: (+613) 9214 8579



Twitter: #SwinEdTech



Swinburne University,

PO Box 218 Hawthorn,

Victoria 3122 Australia

CRICOS Provider 00111D


Therese's Profile<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff-profiles/view.php?who=tkeane>
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