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Botball Workshop

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Botball is a robotics competition for secondary schools. Schools that register will have teams participating in both the workshop and competition.  Botball enables students to understand programming, robotics and computer science. Learn more about Botball.

Game Developer Academy

The CMU-Q Game Developer Academy will teach key skills required in today's economy including programming, designing, teamwork, creativity, and problem solving. Game experts will guide participants through an exciting journey of video game creation. By the end of the online program, participants will have created their own game and will be ready to present it... View Article

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Mindcraft Virtual

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has launched its first virtual outreach program for high school students. Mindcraft Virtual is an online reimagining of CMU-Q’s popular Mindcraft program, which has introduced the field of computer science to nearly 5000 students since it began in 2016. Mindcraft was created for high school students with a wide... View Article

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CS Teacher Workshops

Two workshops will be hosted by the CMU-Q Computing Hub. The workshops focus on professional development for educators to learn to teach computer science to students. Each workshop takes place over the course of 5 days, 2 hours per day. Both workshops will take place online.   Workshop 1: How to teach computer science using... View Article

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Computing Hub Workshop: Game Development

The CMU-Q Computing Hub will offer a free workshop to all students in Qatar. The workshop, titled "Where to start in game development" will be hosted by Mohammed Al-Jawaheri. About the workshop: What do you need to know about 3D Game Development? Social Gaming? How to choose between programming tools and game engines? This workshop... View Article

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Alice Programming Competition

The Alice Programming Competition brings together middle and secondary school students to learn to create Alice animations in one of the following categories related to Raising Awareness: Impact of social media COVID-19 Education Qatar 2022 Save water even if you live next to a river During the competition, the selected teams will present their projects... View Article

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Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest 2021

The Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest provides college students, majoring in any computing-related field, an opportunity to demonstrate their programming and problem-solving skills. It is a platform to meet fellow students... View Article

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Community Partner Lecture: Password Policies: Do’s and don’ts in an internationally diverse environment

The CMU-Q Community Partner Lecture Series features discussions by CMU-Q faculty members on pressing topics in business and leadership. This semester, Ryan Riley, associate teaching professor, computer science at CMU-Q will be discussing password policies. About the lecture: Most password policy recommendations, such as rules for complexity or frequency of password changes, were designed in... View Article

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Game Developer Academy

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The Game Developer Academy will guide students through an exciting journey of video game creation. Where by the end of it, they will have their own game created and ready to impress the world by it! Throughout the program, students will gain better understanding of concepts such as: Decomposition and pseudocode, Inputs and outputs, events... View Article

Alice Programming Competition

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

In this competition, middle and secondary school students will submit animations or games in Alice 3 on one of the following themes: Artificial intelligence Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship Climate change Health Learn more on how to register your team. 

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Computer Science Summer Camp

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Hands-on experience where participants get to learn the foundation of computer programming, build their own projects, play games, enhance their communication and presentation skills, and much more! For more information, please contact: mindcraft@andrew.cmu.edu

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Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest

Carnegie Mellon Qatar

The Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest provides university and high school students, interested in any computing-related field, an opportunity to demonstrate their programming and problem-solving skills. Students living in Qatar meet... View Article

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Lifelines Hackathon

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

The LifeLines Hackathon '24 is your place to build what you are passionate about. An interdisciplinary hackathon inviting university and high school (11-12) students across Qatar to collaborate and create, it’s where you use... View Article

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Lecture: Language Models in Natural Language Processing

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar welcomes CMU-Q teaching professor, computer science, Kemal Oflazer, to speak at the A. Nico Habermann Distinguished Lecture Series.  The A. Nico Habermann Distinguished Lecture Series... View Article

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Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest 2024

The Qatar Collegiate Programming Contest provides university and high school students, interested in any computing-related field, an opportunity to demonstrate their programming and problem-solving skills. Students living in Qatar meet... View Article

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Experience CMU-Q

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Experience CMU-Q is a one-day workshop for high school students to introduce them to the disciplines at CMU-Q. Students choose one of our four program areas, and then participate in fun, hands-on activities to learn more about that field. Experience CMU-Q is taught by faculty, staff and students, so this is an excellent opportunity to... View Article

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Dean’s Panel Series: Stellic

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar invites you to a panel discussion featuring CMU-Q alums and co-founders of Stellic, an edutech global startup that started its journey in a CMU-Q classroom... View Article