This term our Upper 6th A Level Computer Science students took part in the Future Innovators Programme within the Knowledge Quarter Liverpool.
The students were invited to a wide variety of workshops and activities delivered by leading edge technology businesses within the Knowledge Quarter.
The Digital Innovation Facility
Students explored how data science, sensors, Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence are being used to create new ways to enhance services within Liverpool City Region. Students met with a range of researchers to gain a understanding of how as a testing in a real world environment helps these ideas to be scaled into future business solution across the world. They explored how the laboratory facilities within the DIF are used by Liverpool John Moore’s School of Engineering students to build and test prototype drones within their degree studies.
The Manufacturing Technology Centre
Students developed robotic solutions in a work shop to show how creative ideas can work with robotics technologies in emergency and hazardous situations. Students met with Boston Dynamics SPOT robot, students where able to get up close and see how engineers and programmers work with these kinds of robots to develop payloads for these sorts of situations.
The Materials Innovation Factory
Students met with the Managing Director of the facility who provided a tour of the multi-million pound post graduate research facilities at the University of Liverpool. Students were able to learn about the need from multinational corporations for people who can be cross disciplined to work with researchers in all aspects of Engineering, AI, Robotics, Manufacturing to develop new solutions to problems and devise new ways to produce many of the household products we all take for granted.
Liverpool John Moore’s School of Astrophysics and the engineering team
Students met with a range of engineers and code developers who work on, and maintain, the New Robotic Telescope in Las Palmas. Exploring how advanced robotics, engineering and astrophysics are supported by a wide range of roles and knowledge bases to develop new technology projects such as fully remote and robotic telescopes that are capable of looking at some of the most distant and oldest objects and events that occupy the universe.
Clixels
A new upstart Web Solutions and AI company who kindly provided a workshop on how to use AI to aid business. Students explored how to become Prompt Engineers in this session and how valuable these sorts of AI skills can gain them salaries in the region of £138K a year with major companies.
The Civic Health Innovation Laboratory
The CHIL workshop introduced students to how AI and health data is being researched to develop solutions to community health problems. Students met with project managers, stakeholder managers and AI researchers to discover how they work in teams to research and devise solutions to problems across the world.
What a fantastic opportunity for our Computer Science students. Find out more about studying Computer Science at Carmel.
