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Battleships - Searching Algorithms
Explore different ways computers search for information in large quantities of data by playing different versions of the Battleships game 0
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Beat the Clock - Sorting Networks
This fun team activity demonstrates how computers sort information and how it can be done faster when more than one computations are being done at the same time 0
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The Muddy City - Minimal Spanning Trees
This activity demonstrates how computers are used to find the best solutions for real-life problems, such as how to link power lines between houses 0
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The Orange Game - Routing and Deadlock in Networks
Patrons play a cooperative game to explore how to route resources and avoid "deadlocks" in networks. 0
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Tablets of Stone - Network Communication Protocols
Patrons explore methods of communication for computers by working through a role-play scenario and creating their own communication protocols 0
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Treasure Hunt - Finite State Automata
Patrons learn about how computer programs process a sequence of symbols by working with treasure maps! 0
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Marching Orders - Programming Languages
Participants learn the importance of concise and explicit language that must be used in computer programming by instructing each other on how to recreate a drawing 0
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Tourist Town - Dominating Sets
In this math activity, patrons learn about the development of algorithms by mapping out a town's Ice Cream Van locations 0
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Ice Roads - Steiner Trees
Patrons explore finding the shortest path through a network to learn about algorithmic procedures 0
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Information Hiding
Patrons learn about how people's personal information is shared, and yet none of it is revealed, by exploring a mathematical cryptographic technique 0
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Cryptographic Protocols
This activity demonstrates how to accomplish a seemingly impossible task - making a fair choice by flipping a coin - by using math! 0
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Public Key Encryption
This rewarding, but technically challenging activity, explores encryption and cyber security through the sending of secret messages 0
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