Program Overview

Introduction to TechCamp

TechCamp is a new venture under the university's many orientation initiatives to build new 'bridges' between the technical university and secondary schools or professional institutes. The goal is to offer young secondary school students a brief course to explore the theory, but above all to experiment with particularly relevant, up-to-date technological subjects.

Program Overview

TechCamp consists of weekly summer courses in English that cover a widespread need for which families often used to send their children to expensive camps in the UK or USA. The programme began in June 2018 with two courses.

Courses Offered

• Programming, languages for finding our way through ideas: conceived and coordinated by Francesco Bruschi, covering Python and Java Script, powerful languages for teaching objects how to communicate with one another and to imitate certain aspects of human intelligence.
• The robot: foe or friend to be taught?: conceived and coordinated by Paolo Rocco and Andrea Zanchettin, dealing with robots, showing students what movements they can make and how such movements can be described, how robots can be made move as requested and how they can be programmed.
• Other subjects include:
  • Robotics
  • Coding
  • Self-driving vehicles
  • Race car dynamics
  • Hacking and cybersecurity
  • Green energy
  • AI
  • Sport Engineering

Program Structure

One important added value of TechCamp is the practical part, something that is particularly lacking in Italian schools.

• In the morning, theory lessons are held, followed by hands-on and applied experience in the afternoon.
• For example, the students learn Python, writing code to solve a Sudoku puzzle or even write poetry, or they learn the basics of robotics, doing practical group experiments to program two collaborative robots specially purchased for the courses.
• All of this occurs in the classrooms at the Politecnico di Milano, with visits to research laboratories as well.
• The program also focuses strongly on developing students' soft skills, helping them to prepare a scientific presentation in English of the results obtained by the various teams.

Program Dates

TechCamp looks forward to seeing students from June 9th to 27th, 2025.

Program Objective

TechCamp is an initiative created to help students understand what they have a passion for as early as possible. The main goal is not necessarily to guide students towards university studies in engineering, but more so to introduce them to the scientific basis of some of the future's most important technological subjects, even if they choose to follow other paths in their lives.