Computing for Social Good 2: The Big Bang (Northants)

A member of the computing team, Dr Scott Turner, took part in the Big Bang Northants #TBBNorthants on 28th February 2018 at Silverstone. This event is part of the The Big Bang Near Me programme bringing science and engineering to young people.The Big Bang Northants event celebrates STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) across Northamptonshire in its many and varied forms.

So Computing provided two contributions:
- Robots and building (and programming) junk-based robots ('junkbots');
- Games Art students - Mechanic Panic showing their game.

To give a sense of what happened here are some of the related tweets:

Had a fantastic (but tiring) day #TBBNorthants today building junkbots and playing the Red the Nao robot - meeting 100s of great students
Details on how to build the junkbot goto:https://t.co/s56Ej9hEgp@STEMatUN @DeanofFAST

— Dr Scott Turner (@scottturneruon) February 28, 2018

What a day! Who else is still buzzing from the excitement of #TBBNorthants yesterday?

Send us your pictures and thoughts from all the #STEAM fun! @UniNorthants @STEMatUN @AspireNorthants @_EngineeringUK pic.twitter.com/NopQZCGRsm

— Big Bang Northants (@TBBNorthants) March 1, 2018

How awesome is this robot @TBBNorthants sitting up by voice command! #UoN #bigbangnorthants pic.twitter.com/PR1oQCafl9

— UniofNorthampton (@UniNorthants) February 28, 2018

Wow 😍 that’s incredible! #TBBNorthants https://t.co/FTWjakJlFB

— Big Bang Northants (@TBBNorthants) February 28, 2018

@TBBNorthants we have arrived pic.twitter.com/WyLHbWKH0o

— HoppingHill (@HoppingHill) February 28, 2018

Some of the Games Art students where exhibitors.

You can barely move around the @mechanic_panic stand! @UniNorthants #TBBNorthants pic.twitter.com/tw8r8qvbF9

— Big Bang Northants (@TBBNorthants) February 28, 2018

Our students have made a video game - and looks like 4,000 kids at the @TBBNorthants want to play it today! https://t.co/zNAqoQXmWg

— UniofNorthamptonNews (@UniNhantsNews) February 28, 2018

Everything’s going well!
somebody call crowd control! ⚙️
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.#indiegame #indie #game #indiedev #mechanicpanic #uon #coop #couchcoop #multiplayer #bigbang #bigbangnorthants #TBBNorthants @TBBNorthants @UoNGameArt @UniNorthants @AspireNorthants @STEMatUN @bydesigngroup pic.twitter.com/ijLnHu48S4

— Mechanic Panic (@mechanic_panic) February 28, 2018

All set up and ready to go @SilverstoneUK @BigBangFair ⚙️
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.#indiegame #indie #game #indiedev #mechanicpanic #uon #coop #couchcoop #multiplayer #bigbang #bigbangnorthants #TBBNorthants @TBBNorthants @UoNGameArt @UniNorthants @AspireNorthants @STEMatUN @bydesigngroup pic.twitter.com/ayD0QQes0v

— Mechanic Panic (@mechanic_panic) February 28, 2018

So... we made it onto @itvnews ❤️⚙️
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.#indiegame #indiedev #indie #mechanicpanic #uon #game #TBBNorthants #couchcoop #localcoop #itvnews #game #dev pic.twitter.com/AiMg57haGz

— Mechanic Panic (@mechanic_panic) March 1, 2018

All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with. Twitter: @scottturneruon