This resource is a practical and immersive workshop that puts students in the shoes of astronaut engineers. Through a gamified activity set in a space mission, boys and girls will understand the logic that makes all machines work: the binary system and the foundations of digital electronics. The workshop aims to connect theory with practice with a circuit that performs real calculations.
Get ready for an educational adventure! This Electronics and Digital Computing Workshop is set in a space mission where they will have to decipher codes, talking to a robot to save a ship. They will use a “minicomputer” (a real 4-bit adder).
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