The main part of SigmaCamp academic program are the Semilabs that combine theoretical (Seminar) and practical (Lab) parts in 90-minute session. Each semilab is a course, running for the five “regular” days of camp. Each student can attend 2 semilabs, one in the morning and one in the afternoon
Semilabs come in three difficulty lеvels.
Please consider the following guidelines when selecting semilabs you would like to attend at SigmaCamp:
Introductory level semilabs do not assume any prior knowledge on the topic
Intermediate level semilabs do not require any prior knowledge on the topic, but will generally be more challenging
Advanced level semilabs are the most challenging ones. They have prerequisites - a set of concepts you are expected to be familiar with prior to attending the semilab
What is fire? What components are necessary for something to burn? Can things burn without oxygen? In water? Since ancient times, people have...
In this semilab, we will teach a small robot to find its way from a maze!
Along the way, we will learn a variety of valuable techniques,...
Sometimes people want to keep their communications secret. Others, on the other hand, always want to break into other people's secrecy. This...
Using Python programming language we will introduce basic concepts of programming. We will introduce variables, data structures, and flow...
In this lab we will integrate psychology (deception), physiology (arousal and working memory), engineering (electrodes, transducers, and signal...
You will learn the chemical concepts and reactions through a rich web of science, history and the arts (painting and photography). You will...
Learn how ancient civiliazations, Greeks and then Romans, created stone. Discover how building material that survived millennia was made. Learn...
Think for a moment how much electric lights, computers, the internet, and cell phones matter to us today. These and the many other inventions...
Archimedes was arguably the greatest mathematician that ever lived on Earth. After he was killed by Romans, who conquered his native Syracuse,...
How do we identify all the living species around us? These days scientists can use short fragments of DNA (so called barcodes) as unique and...
Particles and fields are the elementary carriers of energy and matter as we know and experience in our everyday life. Particles constitute our...
Electrical engineering has been used to make musical instruments for over half a century. Instruments by such makers as Moog, Korg, and Roland...
"How to grill a perfect steak? What is the secret of soufflé that no cookbook will tell? What makes a gel jelly? Science may help you to become an...
This semilab will walk you in to the world of programmable electronics using Arduino microcontroller. In a set of individual labs you will learn...
You will find out how different chemical compounds will confer scents and colors that human eye and nose can detect. You will learn about natural...
We are surrounded by sets. We belong to sets. What are sets? We will first learn about sets, then move on to graphs. We shall learn how...
Everyone knows that math studies numbers. Yet there is a separate area of math called NUMBER THEORY. What is it? Why do we need it? Why is it that...
What are wicked problems?
The term was coined over 40 years to describe real world social and economic problems - such as poverty, drug use...
The last few years were very exciting for the physics of gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, and...
What is genetic engineering? Simply put, you take a gene of some protein, introduce it into a new organism, and this organism starts to produce...
Although the word "chemistry" is frequently associated with the word "poison", one can do a real chemistry without dealing with poisonous...
In this Semilab, we will develop advanced microcontroller projects. We will first introduce advanced programming and interfacing strategies for...
We will use a tank chassis, ESP8266 microcontroller, and Blynk app to construct a rover that can be controlled via cellphone or navigate...
"Algebraists usually define groups as sets with operations satisfying a long list of difficult-to-remember axioms. To my mind, such a definition...
The last few years were very exciting for the physics of gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein 100 years ago, and...