NICTA Tunes into Computer Science Students with ARTEMIS

David Heath
Sunday, 21 September 2008 11:16

IT Industry - Market

Imagine the fun a group of high school students would have programming and enhancing one of these devices.

That’s the plan.  Initially targeting TAFEs, but with a clear plan to move down to high schools, NICTA is planning to create a number of these clarinet robots and deliver them to high schools for their Computer Science students to experiment on.  Clearly the engineering skills to actually design and build one of these would be lacking at this level, also the ability to create software from scratch. 

However, the plan is to deliver the basic robot and functional software along with guidance on how to improve both the software and hardware.

In TAFEs, the hope is that with sufficient encouragement, students there could in fact be building the entire unit.

This is always the best way to attract children (high school students) to such topics – MAKE IT FUN!  PIQUE THEIR INTEREST.  If you make it look dry, you’ve lost them.