Do your kids want to become computer wizards? Have they ever wanted to know more about how computers solve complex problems like automatic translation or code breaking?

We would love to invite them to the University of Edinburgh Informatics Circle on Saturday December 4. This is the third time we run this event, inspired by the popular Edinburgh Maths Circle. We received a lot of positive feedback for the first two events, and we hope we have further improved our event based on that feedback.

The Informatics Circle is an online event for children aged 7-14 (and their parents) to take part in activities all about computer science. There will be fun and challenging games introducing topics like code-breaking, binary numbers, building efficient networks, word-embedding, logic gates and more. In each activity, one of our hosts will support participants to solve a new puzzle.

The day has two slots:

9:00 – 10:15 – ages 7-10

10:30 – 11:45 – ages 11-14

You are welcome to register to either one of the time slots or both. So we can better prepare for the event, you can register until noon on Friday 3/12, the day before the event.

Children in both age group will take part in the activities in zoom breakout rooms.

There is no need for your kids to prepare anything, although we will send you some activity sheets to print out which they should look at before the event. You will also receive an email with information about how to log on. If you don't hear from us by Friday evening before the event, please check your Spam folder. Please have the printouts and a pencil to hand during the event.

Children must be supervised by a responsible adult at all times during the event to ensure safeguarding of participants.

We highly recommend you read our code of conduct (which we will send you), inspired by the Maths Circle’s, before signing up to the event.

Questions? Contact the organisers at inf-circle-organisers@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk

Please note that by registering with this event, you give the University consent to hold and process this data about you, under data protection regulations, for the purpose of running this event.