Does your school or organisation have a STEM club or similar and
want to get involved with our new Maths Week Scotland project: A.I. Active?
Young people will have the chance to work with researchers from Napier University
and learn all about A.I. (Artificial Intelligence).
A.I. Active is a
co-design project from Napier University that allows young people to test and
share ideas around maths and technology. We are looking to work with a group of
young people who meet regularly, to explore how artificial intelligence makes
decisions, using games and sports rather than using technology. The project is
looking to connect with a group within Edinburgh or Midlothian.
Over three sessions participants will
learn about the topic in an exciting and hands-on way, develop their own ideas
and provide feedback. No experience of artificial intelligence or machine
learning needed.
Requirements:
Edinburgh or Midlothian based STEM Club or similar.
Take part in three sessions of 60-90 minutes. It wouldn't need to be consecutive weeks.
The ideal age range would be 8-12 year olds. However, due to the co-design nature, could work with older up to 16 year olds.
This could be during normal meetings times or outwith as long as space and support staff would be available.
To find out more, please get in touch with the project's facilitator Lisa Wilson via email at Lisawilsoncreative@gmail.com
It's Spring in Edinburgh means, which means the return of the Edinburgh Science Festival (30 March - 14 April)! This years theme is Shaping the Future, and we've browsed through the programme to pick out some of our maths highlights for you.
To mark World Meteorological Day (23 March), we are delighted to share a guest post from Professor Sylvia Knight, Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society, to introduce their new Climate Change Concept tool and show how teachers can use it to support maths in the curriculum.
