2021-09-15: Data Science High School Summer Camp 2021
Data Science is becoming the lingua franca of the 21st century as there are more data sources today than ever before. To prepare the younger generation for the world of data science and artificial intelligence, Dr. Sampath Jayarathna at Old Dominion University (ODU) in collaboration with the ODU Computer Science (CompSci) Department organized a 10-day data science summer camp for about 14 high school students in Norfolk, Virginia from August 9th to August 20th, 2021, funded by PRA Group Inc . The program was a hybrid of onsite and virtual training sessions. This program was an intensive training program intended to prepare high school students for working with different data sources such as structured and unstructured data like text data and images. The students also learned Python programming which is currently the most popular programming language for data science. During each session, we gave the students some activities to work on based on the topics covered since the traini...