
Pre-Festival Event Template
Pre-Festival Event 4
Learn to Machine Learn through Games
Area Name: Power it Up!
Institute/Department/Organisation: Institute of Digital Games
Type of event: Workshop
Age Suitability: 10 – 16
Digital Platform: Zoom
Date: Saturday, 14th November
Time: 16:00

A workshop where students will have their scientific curiosity stimulated through the use of games. The Institute of Digital Games who will be delivering the workshop, does cutting edge research on Artificial Intelligence and Game-based learning. In this workshop students will be led through a number of activities where we use a research-based approach to explore learning through games. Children will learn about Artificial Intelligence through playing games, starting with an understanding of process on a high level and the accompanying biases to some exploration of training algorithms.