“A Popup Museum of Computational Thinking“

How can you excite a group of 500 high school students about informatics and teach them a few foundational ideas of computational thinking, if you get just one day of their time? In this talk I will describe how we designed and operated a temporary interactive “computational thinking” museum to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the faculty of informatics at my university. I will present the design process, the thematic structure of the exhibit, and the mechanics of the various interactive activities. This presentation will be followed by a scaled-down version of two such activities, involving the participation of members of the audience. I will close the presentation with a discussion of ongoing efforts on improving the teaching of computational thinking.