Holiday workshops: Micro:bits - Sensing the Body through AI (Year 7 - 9)

In this workshop, participants will get hands-on with BBC micro:bits to build real biomedical sensing devices. Starting with the fundamentals of how the body generates electrical signals, they will progress through a series of challenges, from programming motion detectors to building their own foil electrode sensors capable of picking up muscle movement in real time.
As their skills develop, participants will explore how machine learning and AI are being applied to health data, and how engineers are training algorithms to detect the early micro-tremors of Parkinson's disease before symptoms are even visible to the human eye. Along the way, they will also grapple with the broader ethical questions that come with AI and data science, including how our data is collected and processed, how bias enters algorithms and what we can do to prevent it.

For children who have just completed Years 7, 8 or 9 this term - please book based on your child’s current/most recent school year, not their new year group from September. This typically corresponds to children aged around 11–14 years old. We reserve the right to refund or deny entry to those who are not in the correct year group.

Refunds can only be issued for tickets cancelled at least two weeks (14 calendar days) in advance of the event date. Please note that this supersedes our normal event terms and conditions.