BSC powers new tech generation with first participation in YoMO

Involving young students in STEAM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics) and fomenting girls’ access to techno-scientific degrees is one of the objectives of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. In order to promote this, the center will offer workshops, conferences and other activities to more than 15.000 teenagers and teachers in Catalonia that have registered to the YoMo Festival Barcelona 2018.

BSC’s participation will begin on February 28^th with a talk regarding the past, present and future of supercomputing.

The following day, on March 1^st, students that visit YoMo will have the chance to attend three workshops that BSC has prepared for different age categories. With “Get parallel”, students that are more than 14 years of age will learn, in a practical way and through everyday examples, the main concepts of supercomputing, such as parallelism, and that results come up faster and in a more efficient way when working in parallel.

For kids between 10 and 14 years old, the workshop “The racing milk box” will show students how to create a programmable, hand-made car with different recycled materials. The next workshop, for kids of less than 12 years of age, is “Computer sciences unplugged”, where students will learn the importance of providing detailed orders for computers to work.

On the last day of YoMo, BSC will be present in an interactive stand (#230) where three simultaneous activities will be taking place. “Computers, gadgets and supercomputers" is an app designed by BSC to put to the test students’ computer skills; “Arduino free entrance station” will invite kids to play with Arduino’s starter kit and to build proximity sensors, for example, while “Meet Dash and Dot” will challenge visitors to program robots through different apps.

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