BrightBrains

In 2006, I bootstrapped the Bright Brains (German: Helle Köpfe) course at our department of computer science at the RWTH Aachen University. It was a course designed for gifted elementary school students to discover computer science as taught in the university. We covered topics like the following:

• Error Correction - Why may I scratch a CD?

• The Needle in the Hay Stack - Search and sort!

• Deadlocks and Dining Philosophers - The Set game and decision trees.

• Kara, the robot - Visual programming, simulation and running with real Lego Mindstorms robots.

• Virtual Instruments

Some links:

• 2006: Abschied für Helle Köpfe

• 2007: This is the successor course. I was not involved in this one. http://ds.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/events/hellekoepfe07

• 2008: Another successful course, this time we could interest the tv in this: German video in youtube from the WDR.