Friday, 26 August 2022 August ends with the successful summer camp editions

We spent the last days of August in the company of young enthusiasts of mathematics and computer science, who participated in the summer camps Matematika je KUL and Orada RAčunalniška Delavnica. In this year's edition, 15 elementary and high school students joined us with a united desire to discover both mathematical riddles and computer science tricks.

During the lectures, which took place from 21 to 25 August at UP Famnit, the participants of the Matematika je KUL camp learned about the beginnings of cryptography as well as statistics, where they learned more about security keys and predictions such as who will win the election or what the next day's weather will be like. They acquired new knowledge about graph theory, the application of mathematics in biology and game theory.

Young computer science enthusiasts, who made up the curious group of participants of the Orada RAčunalniška Delavnica camp, had the opportunity to learn and create their own computer game with the Unity 3D tool and got to know the world of cryptocurrencies and secret codes, then and now.

Participants used the newly acquired knowledge in group workshops to prepare final products, which they presented to their parents on the last day of the camp.

The entertainment part was, of course, also taken care of, which the participants, as they themselves added, particularly liked. We hung out over various mind games and sports activities, tried out VR glasses and danced in body tracking suits.

UP FAMNIT organizes camps with the aim of popularizing mathematics and computer science, as we strive to show young people with examples from practice that these fields can be fun, interesting and, above all, useful. The participants who return to the camps are proof of the achieved purpose and success of the camps.