High School Outreach Activities

Information sessions for the 2018 Big Data Challenge for High Schools Students.
Teacher: SciNet Team
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 - 4:00 pm
Information sessions for the 2017 Big Data Challenge for High Schools Students.
Teacher: Marcelo Ponce
Start date: 5 Oct 2016
End date: 7 Oct 2016
Weekly lectures on basics and introductory concepts of Computational Data Science for High School students, ed. 2015-2016. Topics to be covered include: introduction to Data Science and Scientific Computing; introduction to Research Computing, data mining techniques, data manipulation, visualization and complex networks. The examples and codes will be shown using Python.
Teacher: Marcelo Ponce
Start date: 1 Oct 2015
End date: 1 Jun 2016
Weekly lectures on basics and introductory concepts of Computational Data Science for High School students, ed. 2014-2015. Topics to be covered include: programming association rules, data mining techniques, data manipulation, visualization and complex networks. The examples and codes will be shown using Python.
Teacher: Marcelo Ponce
Start date: 1 Oct 2014
End date: 25 May 2015
An opportunity for teams of high-school student to try the emerging profession of Big Data Analytics by analysing a Big Data case.
Teacher: Marcelo Ponce
Start date: 29 Oct 2015
End date: 4 Feb 2016
SciNet staff meets up with High School Teachers to talk about Computational Thinking and other topics that could be of interest to take into the class room.
Teacher: Erik Spence
Start date: 9 Oct 2014
End date: 2 Apr 2015
The culmination of the Big Data Challenge for High School Students 2014, organized by SciNet, SAS, the computer science department at Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, and NRC Research Press.
Teacher: SciNet Team
Start date: 4 Nov 2014
End date: 13 Feb 2015