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<div>Swinburne will again be running student workshops during the upcoming school holidays. Last year's workshops were very popular amongst secondary students. These workshops are aimed at students from Years 5-9. Please feel free to distribute to your students.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-size: 18px;">School Holidays – NAO Workshops</b></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="Times">Swinburne University will be holding NAO workshops for students over the school holidays. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(41, 38, 37); line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">NAO
robotics course is designed to introduce students to programming and enable them to work closely with these robots. Students will be introduced to motion and sonar sensors, voice recognition and sound and vision tracking through hands-on practical activities
which will bring the NAO robots to life. </span><span style="color: rgb(41, 38, 37); line-height: 22.399999618530273px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></div>
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<font face="Times">NAO is a little character with a unique combination of hardware and software: it consists of sensors, motors and software driven by a dedicated operating system. NAO gets its magic from its programming and animation.</font></p>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="Times">The following workshops will be run over 3 days (9am-3pm) on:</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="Times">Workshop 1 - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (30, 31 March, 1st April) </font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2015/03/nao-robotics-course.php"><font face="Times">http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2015/03/nao-robotics-course.php</font></a></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="Times">Workshop 2- Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (8,9,10 April). </font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2015/04/nao-robotics-course.php"><font face="Times">http://www.swinburne.edu.au/events/departments/health-arts-design/2015/04/nao-robotics-course.php</font></a></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="Times">These workshops will be available to students from Years 5 -Year 9 and will be limited to 10 students per workshop. </font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font face="Times">The cost per workshop is $300.</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Regards</div>
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Therese</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>Dr Therese Keane</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Senior Lecturer in Education</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Faculty of Health, Arts and Design</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Department of Education and Social Sciences</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Building: 14W</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Phone: (+613) 9214 8579 </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Twitter: #SwinEdTech</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Swinburne University, </p>
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<span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff-profiles/view.php?who=tkeane">Therese's Profile</a></span></p>
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