In week 17 of 2019, the 13th annual international IT seminar for students took place. The overall focal point of the seminar is applied science, and the topics are typically on the periphery of the usual syllabus – and this year’s seminar laid the groundwork for The Lego Train Project.
The seminar is held alternately in the participating schools’ home countries, and this year it was the turn of Cphbusiness Lyngby in Denmark. About 30 students from home and abroad came together in their shared interest in IT.
The Danish delegation decided to team up with the Finns on organizing one united topic for all the participants: Building a giant Lego train with track switches, lights and trams controlled through Wi-Fi from PC’s and Android phones. All devices (i.e. switches, lights and trains) were equipped with NodeMCUs, which are small computers with built-in Wi-Fi. The train rail ended up being almost 10 meters long and worked well. It has been a collaboration between the students from App Development, IoT and Security, who did an excellent presentation on security and the Internet of Things.
The overall structure of the IT seminar throughout the years has been that each school presents a topic and conducts workshops within that chosen topic. The students then work together in groups mixed across nationalities.
Usually we are four schools participating: Cphbusiness, Haga-Helia from Finland, Universidad Europea de Madrid from Spain and Hes-so Vallais from Switzerland. This year, unfortunately, Spain could not get funding, so they chose to skip a year. We hope to have Universidade dos Açores with us next year.
Overall, the seminar and our lego train project was a great success. And our facilities here at Cphbusiness Lyngby, including our new InnoTechSpace and MakerLab, were the perfect sorroundings for it all.
We can’t wait for next year’s IT seminar!
