The International Faculty at the 7th International Week Dedicated to Maths 2015

The University of Sheffield International Faculty, CITY College supported the 7th International Week Dedicated to Maths 2015, which took place in Thessaloniki 18-22 March 2015.

In the frame of the event, Mr. Thanos Hatziapostolou, Lecturer at our Computer Science Department held a presentation entitled 'Technology and Education'. In his presentation, Mr. Hatziapostolou presented a series of web tools that teachers can use to adapt new technology in the classroom in order to facilitate their work, increase student motivation and participation - since traditional teaching often cultivates a passive role -, receive better feedback, train students to use technology and improve the overall educational process. Mr. Hatziapostolou also explained how Math teachers in specific could benefit from new technologies in their class. The seminar was addressed to teachers of different levels of education.

On the last day of the event, Mr. Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Lecturer at our Computer Science Department held a robotics demonstration entitled “Design and Build a Robotic Ant Colony” with a group of students. Simple robots would search their environments looking for two things: food and their nest. Once a new nest was discovered by an ant, the ant would communicate the information to the other ants. In a similar manner, when an ant located food that it could not pick up, it would also communicate this to the other ants. The aim was for the ants to forage their food. The demonstration attracted a lot of visitors who had a lot of fun watching the ant-robots!

The International Faculty acted at sponsor at the 7th International Week Dedicated to Maths 2015.