Computing and Mathematics Experience Days – Digital Creation

How do cyber-attacks affect organisations? How does code shape the worlds we live? Can numbers help us predict the future? These are some of the big questions explored in the Computing and Mathematics Experience Days at Sheffield Hallam University.

Designed for Year 12 and Year 13 students, these immersive experience days introduce the ideas, technologies, and ways of thinking that underpin modern computing and mathematics. Each day is built around a single big question and invites students to explore it through hands-on activities, investigation, and discussion. Students step into the role of professionals working in areas such as cyber security, software development, game technologies, data science, and mathematics, gaining insight into how these disciplines help us understand, build, and protect the digital world.

Students will:

• Experience hands-on computing and mathematics activities
• Explore real-world digital challenges
• Discover university pathways in computing and data
• Gain insight into careers in the digital economy

Digital Creation

Designing systems and digital experiences

Big Question: How does code shape the worlds we live in, both real and virtual?

What Students Will Experience
This immersive experience day invites Year 12 and Year 13 students to explore how programming is used to build the systems and environments that shape modern life. Students will discover how code is used to model real-world processes, create intelligent digital systems, and design interactive virtual environments. Through practical activities, they will experience how programmers solve problems, design algorithms, and build software that powers everything from everyday digital services to the virtual worlds found in modern games.

Hands-On Activities

• Game Programming Challenge: Students explore how programmers build interactive digital worlds by developing simple gameplay mechanics and behaviours that allow characters or environments to respond to player actions.
• Computer Science Problem-Solving: Students investigate how algorithms and programming logic are used to represent and manage real-world problems, exploring how software systems process information, make decisions, and power the technologies we rely on every day.

Related Degree Pathways at Sheffield Hallam University

• BEng (Honours) Software Engineering
• BSc (Honours) Computer Games Technologies
• BSc (Honours) Computer Science
• BSc (Honours) Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence

Available to Book every Tuesday

Start time: 10:00

End time: 14:30

Get in touch:

To book, please email SCLO@shu.ac.uk. A member of the Sheffield Hallam University Outreach Team will be happy to liaise with you and support your booking.

For more information, enquiries, or support with outreach, please do not hesitate to contact us at SCLO@shu.ac.uk.

Travel 

We recommend planning your travel arrangements in advance. As a city-centre university, we do not have on-site parking available; however, there are nearby privately owned car parks that we can direct you to.

For environmental reasons, and as we are conveniently located next to Sheffield train station and the Sheffield bus interchange, we encourage travel by public transport whenever possible.