Music is in the air at MinTU
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The second workshop day in the current round of the mentoring program "MinTU - Mädchen in die TU Dortmund" took place on 16 June at TU Dortmund University. Over 30 schoolgirls visited the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Department of Computer Science. Read here how they programmed robots, produced music transmitters and planned a trip into space.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
In the "Robo-Lab - A robot scratches the curve" workshop, the girls visited the Institute of Robotics Research. They programmed Lego robots so that they could follow a black line through a Martian landscape. After successfully programming the Lego robot, some mentees took the opportunity to test the limits of the robot by setting the driving speed to the highest level and seeing how the robot reacted on the test field. In the area of communication technology, the participants tried to transmit music from their cell phones to a radio. This worked without any problems. Armed with a soldering iron, the participants built their own transmitters to make the radio play - completely wirelessly. The students concluded that "soldering is pretty cool".
Department of Computer Science
Computer scientists program all day long, preferably in green font on a black background, usually work alone and are kind of weird? Watch out, cliché! The computer science workshop showed the participants that computer scientists solve all kinds of problems, introduced interesting computer scientists and their work and provided an overview of various sub-disciplines of computer science. Among other things, the students found out what one of these sub-disciplines, known as "scheduling", is. The girls had to consider schedules, deadlines and urgencies in order to organize the daily routine of a computer scientist. The small groups used similar but slightly different strategies to solve the tasks, which all led to the right result in the end: the rocket was able to start its journey into space on time.