I was coordinating the school outreach activities of my department (see also here) in Liverpool from 2020 to 2024. Below are some of my favorite projects and events; for full list of events, see our website. Feel free to contact me if you have questions about past events!

Aliens and Neural Nets

We developed an interactive online lecture on binary classification, Artificial Intelligence – How deep neural network learn. It introduces core notions of machine learning in a playful and engaging way and leads students to an intuitive understanding of binary classification tasks and how artificial neural networks are employed in solving these.

A core goal of the workshop is to help demystify artificial intelligence. While artificial-intelligence methods have found widespread adoption and have increasing influence on individuals and society at large, big parts of the general public have had little exposure to its fundamental working principles and resulting limitations.

Computer Science Taster Days

The department organizes full-day events for secondary-school classes on campus for a deep dive on computer science. There is always a great variety of workshops, many of which are developed and delivered by the students on the Communicating Computer Science module.

EDT Residential Summer School

I lead residential summer schools on Robotics & Autonomous Systems in 2022 and 2023, organized with the Engineering Development Trust with various workshops and lectures in computer science, culminating in the LEGO Robot Competition.

Robot Programming Workshops

We ran several workshops that teach programming using little autonomous robots.

LEGO EV3

More immediately accessible is the block-based programming interface of Open Roberta Lab, which we used with our fleet of LEGO Mindstorm robots.

Pi2Go

We maintain a full course on Programming in Python based on little Raspberry Pi based robots like the Pi2Go. The workbooks are available here.