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Save the date: Come and celebrate 20 years of CS4FN at our birthday party in London

The Computer Science for Fun (CS4FN) project is 20 years old this year. Queen Mary University of London’s School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (QMUL EECS) is hosting a celebration event and all are welcome.

Birthday cake with wiggly candles
Image by diapicard from Pixabay

Tuesday 6 May 2025, 4.30-7pm

The event will include a public talk, demos (e.g. The Magic of Computer Science) and refreshments (probably including cake).

Draft Schedule

  • 4.30 pm Registration and close up magic of computer science
  • 5 pm CS4FN talk: The illusion of good software design, Paul Curzon
  • 6 pm Refreshments, cake, close up magic stalls and other demos
  • 7 pm Close

Venue: QMUL Graduate Centre (Peston Lecture Theatre and foyer) – please see detailed venue directions. The What3Words locator for the entrance is https://what3words.com/fixed.reader.apples

Thank you to QMUL EECS for providing funding for the event.

More details and the link to book a free place can be found here (or use the embedded form below)

CS4FN 20th Birthday Event

CS4FN, co-created by Profs Paul Curzon and Peter McOwan, has been inspiring (and teaching) students, teachers and the general public about interdisciplinary computer science research since 2005 when we first did engagement around AI research at the Royal Society and gave out a magazine to thousands of people who talked to us, followed by to thousands of schools.

In the last year alone we have given talks to about a thousand sixth formers and separately to hundreds of primary school kids – tens of thousands since we started. We send free magazines to thousands of schools that subscribe (over 20,000 copy print run for each issue of the main magazine), we presented at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 4 times (and many other science festivals) reaching tens of thousands of people face to face, we have hundreds of thousands of visits a year on our webpages and people from over a hundred countries read our blog posts.

We contributed to CS being introduced in the English school curriculum and supported hundreds of teachers on how to teach computer science with our CPD classes. Our activities are used by teachers around the world, we popularised and helped get strong pedagogy for teaching computing adopted, wrote two books, championed diversity, supported multiple research grants and researchers with public engagement, supported national policy initiatives, won a major international IEEE award “For outstanding contributions to the rebirth of computer science as a school subject” and Curzon and McOwan’s work on computing pedagogy was cited in Ofsted’s 2022 Research review series: Computing.

Get a free ticket

Please only take one of the spaces if you’re able to attend. If you need to cancel please let Jo (j.brodie@qmul.ac.uk) know, thank you.

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