The International Faculty at the Electric Circus Festival

We are pleased to have supported Electric Circus, a two-day Festival on educational robotics, that took place in Thessaloniki 28 February – 1 March 2015 attracting students from all levels to join, watch and participate in the event’s programme and activities.

Electric Circus was a ‘circus’ different than ordinary ones, an electric circus with robots, light and sound sensors, microprocessors, gears, wheels, engines, competitions young and older students, smiles, excitements, fun and knowledge!

The University of Sheffield Itnernational Faculty,CITY College, was among the festival’s sponsors and participated with Dr Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Lecturer at the Computer Science Department who was among the event’s panelists and competition judges. The event’s programme included a panel discussion about robotics and the ways they can be used in education and promote science, where Dr Dimopoulos participated as discussant. The discussion was followed by Mr Yannis Boutaris’ the Mayor of Thessaloniki address to the audience.

An open-themed competition also took place in the frame of the event where six teams of children aged 12 to 16 took part presenting their ideas to the judges, and demonstrated their prototype devices which included robots and wearable electronics. The competition’s judges – Dr. Dimopoulos among them – voted the best ideas.

Electric Circus took place for the first time in Thessaloniki and attracted many visitors. The International Faculty is happy to support innovative and educative events – especially if fun is involved!