Teacher training, exhibitions and competitions.
Past events
Exhibitions, maker fairs, and teacher training sessions we’ve taken part in.
EdTech Taiwan, the largest and only education technology expo in Taiwan, was held November 9 (Thu) to November 12 (Sun), 2023 at the Taipei World Trade Center. The annual theme was “Technology in Hand, Bilingual Steps Forward,” echoing the major education policies “#Every Class Online, Every Student with a Tablet” and “#2030 Bilingual Policy.”
Maker Faire Taipei is a festival that promotes maker culture and supports the maker community. Participants could exchange ideas with people from all fields, learn new technologies, show their own work, and join a variety of activities. Attending gave visitors exposure to many interesting creative projects, sparked their creativity, and let them exchange ideas with, and be inspired by, others who love innovation.
EdTech Taiwan, the largest and only education technology expo in Taiwan, was held November 10 (Thu) to November 13 (Sun), 2022 at the Taipei World Trade Center. The annual theme was “Technology in Hand, Bilingual Steps Forward,” echoing the major education policies “#Every Class Online, Every Student with a Tablet” and “#2030 Bilingual Policy.”
The ROS Summer School, a professional course worth NT$100,000, returned. The Youth Affairs Bureau, Taoyuan City Government and ADLINK Technology teamed up again to launch the ROS robotics online learning platform, with solid technical courses and talks from several industry speakers. Participation was completely free and included an e-certificate of training, and young people and members of the public interested in robots were welcome to register.
ROS.Taiwan is Taiwan's leading open community, with more than 2,000 members and still growing. To let Taiwan's ROS community members exchange ideas, it has held an annual conference on its own initiative since 2018. The fifth conference invited industry leaders and community partners to share ROS learning experiences, application cases, and results.
The pandemic hit Taiwan throughout 2021. Teachers were busy switching between in-person and online instruction while also updating teaching materials and lesson plans. This event invited front-line elementary and middle school teachers to share how they responded in information education over the past year.
The long-awaited online course “MoonCar-LinkIt 7697 Vision Recognition Edition Basic Hands-On” began on December 15, 2021 (Wed), taught by instructor Hong Mingen. The organizers figured that loyal fans each had a MoonCar, or even several parked in their garages, so the MoonCars were started up for a meetup and a good lesson.
Many partners wanted to branch into NB-IoT but were unsure which hardware to choose, or wanted to learn the MQTT protocol and IoT platforms but were unsure where to start. On November 20, 2021 (Sat), instructor Lin Shiyun (Felix) addressed these concerns. This article collects the materials and course videos from that day.
On October 16, 2021 (Sat), instructor Lin Shiyun (Felix) taught “Teachable Machine AIoT.” More than 90 participants joined on Google Meet, and turnout was enthusiastic. This article collects the course materials and videos from that day.
