Our Computer Science Taster Days are a full-day campus visit to our labs.
Modern life is full of technology; most of us use digital tools every single day for chatting, shopping, banking, education, and recreation. A career in computer science allows students to step up from mere users to empowered creators and scrutinisers of technology. Our Taster Days give an authentic impression of how that looks like through a series of hands-on workshops covering different aspects of computer science.
The Taster Days are aimed at pupils in Key Stage 3. Our aim is to encourage pupils from all backgrounds to engage with computing and to consider further study at GCSE and university.
Dates
Running every Wednesday in the spring term:
| Â | Slot | Date | School | Detailed Schedule | Â |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Taster Day 1 | 29 January 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
| Â | Taster Day 2 | 05 February 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
|  | – half term – | 12 February 2025 | — |  |  |
| Â | Taster Day 3 | 19 February 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
| Â | Taster Day 4 | 26 February 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
| Â | Taster Day 5 | 5 March 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
| Â | Taster Day 6 | 12 March 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
| Â | Taster Day 7 | 19 March 2025 | Â | Schedule | Â |
Organisation
Each Taster Day will include two sessions developed and delivered by our students, as well as a hands-on session and an outdoor activity delivered by academics from the Computer Science Outreach team. The exact schedule for the day will depend on the timetable of our students.
We recognise that many pupils will already be somewhat familiar with programming. Our undergraduate students have been working hard to design a range of activities to support and enhance the work you do in the classroom.
Each day typically begins at 10am and ends at 2pm. Schools are responsible for arranging their own transport to the university campus. The Computer Science labs are conveniently located just a short walk from University Square via The Quadrangle.
For further information, please see our 2025 Taster Day Info Sheet.
Lessons
Below (TBC) is a list of this year’s student developed lessons (for very similar topics developed by multiple students, only one topic/blurb is given below). Each Taster Days features two of these.
Registration
Interested in attending?
We are currently booked out, but we keep a rolling list of interested schools.
If you are a secondary school teacher, and would like to bring a group of pupils
to our campus for a Computer Science Taster Day, please reach out to cs-outreach@liverpool.ac.uk!