POWER JUNKIES

Advanced Electronics, ICT and Physics

Intended primarily as a follow-on to the Bright Sparks Course, Power Junkies delves even deeper into the fascinating world of modern electronic principles and micro-sized circuits.

Practical work and individual projects feature heavily, as students are encouraged to explore digital principles and conduct their own experiments on specialised training boards.  The course is ideally suited to students who have previously attended Bright Sparks or alternatively, those who have demonstrated an above-average knowledge of electronics at school.

During the weekend, we will be dismantling a computer to find out exactly how it works and become adept at thinking in binary and hexadecimal as we understand how digital communications can multiplex speech, pictures and data into a single high speed channel of information...............and exactly how a mouse moves across your computer monitor.

A Presentation to Parents at the end of the course provides an opportunity to highlight the results of our exploration and demonstrate the technologies we have seen.

	Advanced digital training boards enable students to explore logic circuits - here a clock pulse is timed on an oscilloscope		Students demonstrate their understanding of the topics during the presentation to parents

	A small IC chip is cracked open and its semiconductor contents examined by microscope

	By the end of the course you will be able to explain how a PC works