News – The Amazing Lab

The Amazing Lab, among the engineers

tjcruz — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 23:02:00 +0000

Today we were present at the Order of Chartered Engineer’s headquarters (Zona Centro), presenting our project and taking part in a debate about the Challenges of Teaching Computer Engineering, organized by the Regional Council of the College of Computer Engineering.

Capture the Flag!

tjcruz — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:22:00 +0000

Yesterday we challenged a group of third and fourth graders from the 1st João de Deus school in Coimbra (Portugal), to participate in a cryptographic Capture the Flag event, with lots of padlocks, secret boxes with encrypted clues, and real flags.

Everyone got his own cryptographer manual and teams had to collaborate to decrypt the messages and solve the riddles.

A big “Thank you” to the 1st Jardim-Escola João de Deus de Coimbra, to our friends at Feedzai and to the Departamento de Engenharia Informática – Universidade de Coimbra, for supporting the Amazing Lab project.

Finally, a heartfelt recognition to Prof Bill Buchanan OBE from the Edinburg Napier Univeristy, which inspired this activity.

Diploma day!

tjcruz — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:12:56 +0000

Today we visited our friends from the 1st Jardim-Escola João de Deus de Coimbra, to deliver the conclusion certificates for our introductory programming course.

We also promised to return next year, with new challenges!

Our visitors from the Colégio de São Teotónio, Coimbra

tjcruz — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 23:03:34 +0000

This time, our guests were from the neighbourhood, more specifically from the Colégio de São Teotónio, in Coimbra. Lots of interested people, with curious minds and the will to set new high scores for our untangible Flappy Bird game.

A visit from the Colégio João de Barros, Pombal

tjcruz — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 22:56:34 +0000

This time, our visitors came from the Colégio João de Barros, in Pombal. A wonderful group of curious and interested students, which paid us a visit.

Our guests from the Agrupamento de Escolas de Pombal

tjcruz — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:50:04 +0000

This time, our guests came from the Agrupamento de Escolas de Pombal. As always, it was a pleasure to host them at the Amazing Lab – please come back soon!

Decisions, decisions, decisions…

tjcruz — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:54:00 +0000

Today we visited again our old friends from the 1st Jardim-Escola João de Deus de Coimbra, to teach some fundamental programming concepts using our Codey Robots – today’s class was dedicated to learning about conditional instructions!

As usual, lots of (good) energy.

An Amazing 3D printing workshop

tjcruz — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 18:01:00 +0000

Our 3D printing workshop couldn’t have gone any better! We were lucky to have a wonderful mentor (our Andreia Guerreiro), as well as formidable group of participants.

We couldn’t ask for more.

Amazing Lab @ EdTech Summit 2023

tjcruz — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:52:00 +0000

The Amazing Lab was present at the EdTech Summit 2023, for the Show & Tell session.

Fun with loops and robots

tjcruz — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:13:00 +0000

Two classes of third graders, lots of (good) energy.