The iCub humanoid robot will be one of the features at Animation 13
11 Jul 2013 Computer scientists from The University of Manchester will present their annual UK Schools Animation Competition Festival and Inspirational Computer Science Day tomorrow (Friday). This year, the festival looks to be the most exciting yet featuring hands-on activities, including a full-size flight simulator, the iCub humanoid robot, a 3D printer, face recognition with the Kinect, augmented reality, 3D graphics, and creating games avatars from ordinary photographs. More than 400 schoolchildren, teachers and parents from across the UK will visit the University for the competition's Awards Show, and an afternoon of exciting hands-on workshop activities. Staff at the School of Computer Science came up with the idea for the UK Schools Computer Animation Competition in 2008, to mark the 60th anniversary of the world's first stored program computer - The Baby - designed and built in Manchester in 1948. Now in 2013 the competition, Animation13, is in its sixth year, with its goal to encourage a greater interest in computing among young people. Youngsters aged between seven and 19 are challenged to create an animated film of one minute or less using any of the Alice, Scratch, Adobe Flash or Serif software packages. Almost 700 schools across the UK registered to take part in this year's competition, and 1,500 schoolchildren submitted 1,100 entries.
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