We organize a raft of activities for kids of all ages, backgrounds and levels, both during school time and in free time. For parents of school age children, engage with us by enrolling your child in one of the programmes or workshops listed below. For teachers, see how we can support you through initiatives such as researcher in my class, SATW TecDays and GirlsCodeToo, or our downloadable materials developed in collaboration with IFAC.
Activities for kids
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For: Ages 10–19 mint&pepper develops activities to help young people discover their talents as well as the fascinating world of the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). See their programmes for leisure. We are currently supporting mint&pepper in designing didactic material to make their offer more accessible for children with disabilities. Read more about some of our past workshops with mint & pepper. | 
For: Ages 8–18 GirlsCodeToo organises activities introducing kids (especially, but not only, girls) to software tools, coding languages and processes that are used to build apps, games, websites, and robots. They have several offers for free time (ages 8–16). |
For: Ages 7–16 EPFL Outreach Department organises activities for free time (ages 7–16). Read this blog post for more. |
For: Ages 0–18 Educamint offers resources for schools and kids. |
Resources for teachers
For: Ages 10–19
mint & pepper develops activities to help young people discover their talents as well as the fascinating world of the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). See their programmes for primary school, first‑ and second‑‑level secondary school for more information. We are currently supporting mint & pepper in designing didactic material to make their offer more accessible for children with disabilities. Read more about some of our past workshops with mint & pepper. |
For: Ages 8–18
GirlsCodeToo organises activities introducing kids (especially, but not only, girls) to software tools, coding languages and processes that are used to build apps, games, websites, and robots. They have several offers for primary and secondary schools (ages 8–18). |
For: Ages 10–15
Girls in Control provides all the material (in more than 10 languages) to run a 2‑hour workshop on control... | 
For: Gymnasium classes (ages 12–18)
SATW TecDays bring scientists to Italian‑, French‑, and German‑speaking Gymnasium classes (ages 12‑18) for one day... |
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For: Ages 7–16
EPFL Outreach Department organises several activities for schools (grade 3 to first‑year secondary school)... | Researchers in my class
For: Ages 12–18
Our researchers are available to organise workshops for school classes. If you are interested, please contact us. |
To make control theory more understandable to everyone, we publish a series of explainers that take a complex concept and break it down into small steps. Please see our technology explainers page
Promoting diversity is a key part of the NCCR Automation’s purpose and underpins all our activities for kids and schools. In particular, through our collaboration with mint & pepper, we aim to engage children with different backgrounds, such as kids with disabilities, neurodivergent kids, and kids with a migration background. Programmes such as those described above from GirlsCodeToo, Girls in Control and the extracurricular offers from EPFL Outreach are designed to give the opportunity to a greater number of girls to develop their tech skills and confidence.
We are also working on creating and sharing more resources in a wide range of non-Swiss languages.
You can learn more about this mission on the Diversity page.
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