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Outreach Activities and School Engagements

The Microtopia CS summer school for girls for Years 8,9,10 and 11

 

We held a 3-day summer school from the 9th - 11th of July, where we welcomed 90 girls to our campus from 3 local schools: Eden Girls' School, The Green School for Girls, and UTC Heathrow. The summer school is Interdisciplinary and collaborative and has embedded various industries. It engages in real-world problems and links to the UNSDGs. The summer school establishes a connection to the world and future career plans. It is also designed to promote how CS can be a part of their career plan and how CS would be a driving force for good.

Dream Big with CS for Years 7 and 8, Eden Girls School, Slough

Dream Big with Computer Science: Basic robotics programming using BBC micro: bit and Maqueen robot

We introduced the micro: bit and its block-based programming, and the Maqueen robot. The micro: bit is used to program the Maqueen robot to run a range of activities that focus on physical computing featuring things that move, buzz, or light up so that students get immediate feedback and are encouraged to delve deeper into the CS topics that we covered.

Inspire summer school (in collaboration with the STEM team) for Year 11 pupils (Girls only)

GETME Out: Robotics Programming with BBC micro: bit

The workshop covers 3 programming concepts and covered 3 activities focused on physical computing featuring moving and tracing and getting the robot out of a maze.

Inspire summer school (in collaboration with the STEM team) for Year 11 pupils (Mixed)

GETME Out: Robotics Programming with BBC micro: bit

The workshop covers 3 programming concepts and covered 3 activities focused on physical computing featuring moving and tracing and getting the robot out of a maze.

CS Taster day (in collaboration with the Student Recruitment and Admissions team) for Years 11 and 12 pupils

The programme includes 2 CS Workshops (Beat the Hacker: Cyber Security Programming with BBC micro: bit and CodeMe: Robotics Programming with BBC micro: bit and Maqueen micro: bit), Talk with a Scientist Session, and Student Experience Session.

CS workshop in RI Masterclasses (in collaboration with STEM team) school for Year 9 pupils

CodeMe: Robotics Programming with BBC micro: bit and Maqueen micro: bit

We introduced the micro: bit and its block-based programming, and the Maqueen robot. The micro: is used to program the Maqueen robot to run a range of activities that focus on physical computing featuring things that move, buzz, or light up so that students get immediate feedback and are encouraged to delve deeper into the CS topics that we covered.

International Conference Organisation Committee

International Program Committee

Invited talks

  • 20 Jun 2024: Real-time Physics for Realistic Virtual Humans in the XR and Attention Symposium at KCL (London, UK)
  • 28 Jan 2019: Interactive Character Animation for VR Applications at ICN Group at UCL (London, UK)
  • 26 Feb 2018: Dynamic Phenomena using Implicit Incompressible SPH at CGMS Group at the University of Siegen (Siegen, Germany)
  • 5 Dec 2016: Stability in Incompressible SPH (ISPH) at CG Group at the Friedrich-Alexander University (Erlangen, Germany)
  • 7 Nov 2016: Position-based Skin Deformations for Interactive Character Animation at STORM Group (Toulouse, France)
  • 12 Mar 2015: Position-based Skinning for Soft Articulated Characters at ICube Lab (Strasbourg, France)

Volunteering services

Student volunteer for the Computer Graphics International (CGI) conference, 2015, Strasbourg, France.

In2STEM Programme (formerly In2science Summer Programme) Co-Host and Facilitator (August 2024)

Media interests

Elastic Implicit Skinning for Character Animation: This project explores the joint use of meshes (the standard representation for 3D animations) and volumetric scalar functions (usually restricted to collision detections) for deforming virtual characters when they are animated, see here for more details.

Article in the 3dvf magazine: https://www.3dvf.com/actualite-20760-ray-portals-elasticity-skinning-toulouse-presente-ses-innovations.html/ (in French).

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/07/inside-the-toddlerlab-london-research-wearable-tech

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