Explore themes of music, archaeology and medicine through time in this fun, interactive session.
These sessions are all about making connections and friends in your community. A chance to meet, chat and entertain your children.
Refreshments will be provided, changing facilities are available.
In this workshop, we will be connecting motors and sensors to an Arduino and create the very basics of a roaming robot. Can you program it to navigate the room cleverly?
Ages 12+; ideal for children at KS3 and KS4 levels
During this special 30-minute museum tour, our in-house gaming experts will guide you through the history of videogames from the seventies to modern day. Come dressed up as your favourite retro game character!
All ages welcome; ideally suited to ages 6+
Do you love playing Minecraft? Want to learn how to invent new things, build large, complex structures automatically and other new ways of controlling the Minecraft world?
We'll be using Raspberry Pi and the Python programming language to write some code and hack the Minecraft world!
Calling young music makers! Come and learn how to use the Sonic Pi software package on the Raspberry Pi to create some amazing tunes.
Ages 8+; ideal for children at upper KS2 and KS3 levels
Ticket prices: Workshop participant - £14; Accompanying Adult - £10 (required for under 14s)
Come along to this fun Scratch coding workshop and learn how to create the beginnings of an intruder alarm.
This will help to protect your bedrooms from being invaded by parents and siblings!
Ages 8-11; ideal for children at the upper KS2 level
You will be led through the extraordinary advance in technology over 50 years of computing history and discover how computers have not only accelerated our lives, but radically transformed them.
Come and find out how a computer can be programmed by a strip of paper or what on earth is 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 011101010 01111001 (or 'binary' as we humans call it)?
Python is everywhere! It's the world's most popular programming language used in data science, AI and web development. It's also capable of making games, and due to the "readability" of Python, it's relatively easy to do.
In this workshop we'll start off with some fundamentals of coding before making a game. Some experience with coding would be beneficial, and be ready for lots and lots of typing!
During this special 30-minute museum tour, our in-house gaming experts will guide you through the history of videogames from the seventies to modern day.
Come dressed up as your favourite retro game character!
All ages welcome; ideally suited to ages 6+
Fancy yourself a bit of a racer?
Got the drift boost down to a fine art?
Not scared of a little snaking?
Then come down to the Centre for Computing History this Friday to test your mettle on Mario Kart 8 on the WiiU.
For under 13's only
