Toby Howard :: Public Engagement The School of Computer Science at The University of Manchester organises and promote projects and events, all designed to increase public awareness of Computer Science, and particularly to enthuse the next generation. We also run the Public Engagement email list for The University of Manchester. Please sign up if you're interested. |
July 2012 |
Animation12 Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day, Martin Harris Centre, The University of Manchester. Over 400 guests from schools all over the UK! | |
March 2012 |
National Science and Engineering Week at Sackville Street, The University of Manchester. | |
October 2011 |
Andrew Robinson's presentation "Computers rock our music world" at the Martin Harris Centre and The University of Manchester, as part of the 2011 Manchester Science Festival - celebrating the 60th anniversary of the computer that created the first recorded digital music, and discovering how electronic processing makes singers sound in tune and why television ads sound so loud. | |
October 2011 |
Exhibiting Augmented Reality and 3D Computer Graphics at MOSI, as part of the 2011 Manchester Science Festival. | September 2011 - July 2012 |
Animation12, the 5th Annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition. Funded by Google, Electronic Arts, NESTA, in association with Computing At School, cs4fn and BAFTA. |
August 2011 |
Augmented Reality at the Jodrell Bank Science Festival. | |
August 2011 |
Visit to the University by schoolchildren from Izumigaoka Special Science High School, Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken, Japan. | |
July 2011 |
Animation11 Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day, Martin Harris Centre, The University of Manchester. Over 300 guests from schools all over the UK! | |
June 2011 |
DIGITFEST 2011 Digital Arts Festival at The Lowry, Salford Quays. | |
May 2011 |
Augmented Reality at Science Week at MOSI. | |
November 2010 |
Launch of new Public Engagement email discussion forum for colleagues at The University of Manchester. | |
November 2010 - March 2011 |
"The Keyboard is Mightier than the Mouse" - a series of Linux programming workshops for sixth-form school students, organised by Dr John Latham. Funded by Computing At School/BCS. | |
September 2010 - July 2011 |
Animation11, the 4th Annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition. Funded by Google, Electronic Arts and the Granada Foundation, in association with BBC21CC and cs4fn. | |
August 2010 |
2-day visit to the University by schoolchildren from Izumigaoka Special Science High School, Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken, Japan. | |
July 2010 |
Animation10 Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day at The Lowry, Salford Quays. Over 300 guests from schools all over the UK! | |
February - March 2010 |
"The Keyboard is Mightier than the Mouse" - a series of Linux programming workshops for sixth-form school students, organised by Dr John Latham. | |
January - June 2010 |
Animation10, the 3rd Annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition, including on 9 July our Animation Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day at The Lowry, Salford Quays. Funded by Google and Electronic Arts, in association with BBC21CC and cs4fn. | |
October 2009 |
Speedy Science at the Manchester Science Festival, in Pure nightclub, The Printworks, central Manchester. Here children had the opportunity to race the computers in their mobile phones against (a simulator of) the original 1948 Baby. | |
June 2009 |
The Animation09 Animation Festival and Awards Ceremony at MOSI, Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry. Over 300 schoolchildren attended from all over the UK. | |
March 2009 |
We took the Photo-Baby to the Manchester Histories Festival, held at Manchester Town Hall. | |
January -June 2009 |
The 2nd annual UK Schools Computer Animation Competition 2009, including our Animation Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day at MOSI. | |
November 2008 |
As part of the 2008 Manchester Science Festival we took our full-scale photographic replica of The Baby, which includes a microprocessor simulator of the original machine, to The Printworks in Manchester City Centre. As well as talking to people about possibly the greatest invention of the 20th century, we ran a prize draw, kindly sponsored by the British Computer Society, in which one lucky Mancunian won a laptop. | |
June 2008 |
On Digital 60 Day, 20 June 2008, we celebrated the 60th birthday of the world's first stored-program digital computer, "The Baby", designed and built here at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1948. As part of the Digital 60 celebrations we ran the inaugural UK Schools Computer Animation Competition (see the Winners Gallery), which attracted over 230 entries from 55 schools, and 400 children attended the Film Show and Awards day in University Place. |