UDG Open Mind Academy started!
On April 20th University of Donja Gorica started with the realization of trainings within the Open Mind Academy for students of III and IV grade of high school, and the same will be held during the next 2-3 weeks. There are around 90 participants from various high schools throughout Montenegro and the trainings are realized through online platforms, as well as in the University building.
The moto of the program is: "Step into the future"
The training is intended for high school students who wish to gain practical experience in one of the very current areas using modern technologies such as 3D printing, design, programming, drones, artificial intelligence and others, in collaboration with lecturers from the University of Donja Gorica.
Participants are expected to work on exciting projects, based on the latest trends and technologies (using of IoT, 3D technologies, Python, Analysing Social Media Trends), and the acquired knowledge will enable them to more easily build their future in one of the areas they choose with this program.
Participants are expected to work on exciting projects, based on the latest trends and technologies, and the acquired knowledge will enable them to more easily build their future in one of the areas they choose with this program. Within certain trainings, the evaluation of project solutions created through the trainings will be organized, as well prizes awarded.
Workshops called ANALYZING SOCIAL MEDIA TRENDS and PYTHON VIDEO GAME PROGRAMMING are organized within the research project NCC MONTENEGRO National Competence Center for High-Performance Computing, on which UDG is the national coordinator. Participants in this training will have the opportunity to work in one of the most current areas of artificial intelligence called Natural Language Processing (NLP), which aims to analyze text (social networks, news, books, etc.) and make decisions from them. The focus will be on analyzing trends from social networks (e.g. Twitter) where attendees will collect real-time data and later analyze those to find trends, feelings (positive or negative), and so on. Also, within the training Python Video Game Programming, special areas that will be elaborated are the areas of algorithms and programming, development of environment setting, objective-oriented programming, Python games, machine learning etc.
In addition to the above mentioned, the FUTURE AND FOOD workshop is organized within the UDG project Centre of Excellence for digitalization of microbial food safety risk assessment and quality parameters for accurate food authenticity certification FOODHUB. As part of the training, participants will have the opportunity to learn about the work in laboratories on a theoretical and practical basis (chemical and microbiological), but also to learn about the area of food quality and safety.
