Educational Robotics Workshop

The Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku, in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland, School of Computing and the School of Computing, University of Namibia will host a robotics workshop on the 28th November – 02nd December 2019. The workshop aims to expose students and all other participants to basic robotics skills. The course has lot of hands-on exercises and individual and group tasks, so active and curious-minded participation is must!

Workshop Schedule:

28th November 2019 – Day 1: Introduction to robotics, walkthrough of the pre-assignments. Introduction to technologies (Lego robots, Arduino). Basics of electronics, safety issues, programming Arduinos and Lego platform. Building basic robots.

29th November 2019 – Day 2: Sensors, actuators, information processing with robots. Building and programming a mini project: Sumo robots, competition. Designing the project work.

30th November 2019 – Day 3: Working with the project work.

2nd December 2019 – Day 4: Project presentations, evaluation of the projects, wrap-up

Workshop Facilitator:

Dr IIkka Jormanainen
Senior researcher
edTech research group
School of Computing
University of Eastern Finland

NB: Certficates of learning results will be awarded.