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QCRI’s summer camps to hone computing skills of children

Published: 10 Jul 2018 - 09:11 am | Last Updated: 08 Nov 2021 - 04:26 pm
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DOHA: To hone their computing skills, children aged from 8 to 13 will be offered free lessons at summer computing camps run by the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University. 

QCRI will run separate programmes for age groups 8-10 and 11-13 from July 15 to July 26. No prior experience is required. QCRI’s Director of Educational Initiatives, Dr Eman Fituri, said the summer camps provide a great opportunity for kids to learn coding, develop teamwork and problem solving skills, inspire creativity and have fun. “We will be running some of our most popular activities including programming with Cozmo, Makey Makey and Little Bits,” Dr Fituri said. 

The programmes teach coding and computational thinking, and foster creativity, innovation, teamwork and problem solving. 

In the Cozmo programme, campers will be exposed to robotics and will learn how to programme Cozmo to explore, make decisions, complete tasks and create basic artificial intelligence (AI) behaviours.

In the Makey Makey programme, children will create their own physically interactive games using the Scratch programming language and the Makey Makey micro controller. The Little Bits programme involves using electronic components to create interactive prototypes.