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...
Popular books and movies usually depict chemist’s lab as a place where everything boils or smells, changes its color or explodes. In real life,...
Combinatorics is at the foundation of current research in computer science, cryptography, and bioinformatics. Even though in school introductory...
Become a film director and science journalist in SigmaCamp!
Communication has become a very important part of the skill set of a modern...
Using Python programming language we will introduce basic concepts of programming. We will introduce variables, data structures, and flow...
In this introductory semilab we'll learn about the simplest nature-optimized machines for self-reproduction in other organisms: viruses. We'll try...
Think for a moment how much electric lights, computers, the internet, and cell phones matter to us today. These and the many other inventions...
This Semilab will walk you into the world of programmable electronics using an Arduino microcontroller, how to assemble your own simple electric...
What comes to your mind when you think about Physics? Perhaps Newton’s Laws, or Relativity Theory, or maybe Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics...
Archimedes was arguably the greatest mathematician that ever lived on Earth. After he was killed by Romans, who conquered his native Syracuse,...
What is light? Humanity has been trying to answer this question for millennia. The answer, "light is a wave-like particle" (wave-like like...
Particles and fields are the elementary carriers of energy and matter as we know and experience in our everyday life. Particles constitute our...
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...
In this semilab, we will cover the basic elements of ChatBots. Students will code simple interactive agents in Python and will understand how to...
Ancient mathematicians believed that the straight line and the round circle are perfect shapes, to which everything else in this World can be...
Electrical engineering has been used to make musical instruments for over half a century. Instruments by such makers as Moog, Korg, and Roland...
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...
How does Machine Learning actually work? What is behind the scenes? We will discuss various machine learning techniques, from simple regressions...
An enormously large series of complex and chaotic events (including chromosome and whole genome duplications) have shaped the genomes (master...
In this Semilab, we will develop advanced microcontroller projects that are based on micropython. We will first introduce advanced programming and...
Some chemical reactions occur very quickly (explosions!) while other reactions are slow, e.g., formation of rust. Some processes generate a lot of...
Record and manipulate live neurons, control machines with your nervous system, and vice-versa. In this semilab we will explore how computers and...
Although the word "chemistry" is frequently associated with the word "poison", one can do a real chemistry without dealing with poisonous...
Lord Kelvin proposed in 1867 that the atoms are the knotted tubes of ether. This theory proved to be wrong but the study of knots and their...