Intensive Robotics Workshop for 14+ year kids

The lab introduces advanced hardware + AI to teenagers in an accessible format but novel format. All students will be introduced to a professional developing environment.
While participants do not need to bring coding experience to the table, it offers motivated young technophiles the opportunity to work with serious robotics beyond standard learning sets.
Up to 10 students are taught and guided by two Robotics experts: Information systems specialist Michael, who has developed the robots of this course himself and Cherian, an experienced robotics and MINT educator.

Both are fluent in German and English and will adapt to what will help the students most.

The course lasts 4 hours each day and includes short breaks and some basic snacks. It will end on Day 5 with a final presentation to which all parents are invited as the audience.

Duration: - July 13 - 17 2026


## Course Overview

### Day 1 - Introduction

- Environment setup and intro to the system
- Connection to the robot
- C++ Basics

Goal: learn to move the robot with a C++ program

### Day 2 - Robotics Basics

- C++ foundation for robots
- Movement and sensors

Goal: learn robot navigation with sensors

### Day 3 - Computer Vision Intro

- Intro to CNN and DNN (neural networks)
- Intro to Yolo (object detection)
- Intro to cameras with OpenCV (streaming and calibration)

Goal: learn robot navigation with cameras

### Day 4 - Computer Vision Integration

- Intro to data annotation for training (with Roboflow)
- Train your own Computer Vision model
- Run the model on the robot

Goal: learn how to train and run your own Yolo model to navigate the robot

### Day 5 - Autonomous Driving Robot Challenge

Challenge time - let your robot drive and react to its environment autonomously!

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