Program for Snap!Con 2025
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Coffee Break (30 minutes) Keynote (60 minutes) Snap4europe (120 minutes) Talks Discussions (10 minutes) Bus Transfer (45 minutes) Food Break (75 minutes)
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14:30 PM CEST
Joan Guillén
In-person only
For over ten years, Snap4Arduino has allowed us to connect Snap! to different boards (UNO, Nano, Mega, Leonardo, Micro, Due, 101, ESP8266, NodeMCU...) to obtain data from multiple sensors and control devices from our virtual projects made with Snap!
With the arrival of Microblocks, now we can apply our dynamic programming (in the Smalltalk way) directly inside our microcontrollers... and we ...
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14:45 PM CEST
fuchiungcheng
In-person only
In a digital-first world, the demand for efficient, cross-platform applications is at an all-time high. Traditional development approaches often require separate toolchains and teams for mobile and web, leading to inflated costs and delayed delivery. MobiWebX offers a game-changing alternative: a SaaS-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that enables developers to build and deploy ...
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15:00 PM CEST
Margaret Low
In-person only
In 1973 Clive Richards created his 100 cubes art work using a line plotter. It consists of a 10 × 10 grid of cubes, each rotated 10 degrees along either the x or y axis, creating a fascinating effect through the repeated rotations.
Realising the similarities between a line plotter and embroidery machine, I set out to recreate Clive Richards, 1973 100 cubes art work using TurtleSti...
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15:15 PM CEST
Jan Schlenzka
In-person only
Computer simulations have established themselves as the third pillar of science. Simulations translate technical models into dynamic, interactive scenarios and allow phenomena to be investigated, predictions to be made and hypotheses to be tested - especially when real experiments are difficult or impossible to carry out. Accordingly, computer modeling is also gaining importance beyond compu...
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15:40 PM CEST
Negash
In-person only
In this talk, I will give a demo of the Snap! private cloud developed for low resource not well connected areas and share my recent experiences about bringing Snap! to Eritrea and which challenges and successes I faced.
15:55 PM CEST
Yuan Garcia
In-person only
Snap!Pal is an intelligent, voice-based educational tool that is designed to help students who are learning computer science principles through Snap!. By utilizing Voice-AI for conversational interactions and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for context-aware responses that are trained on the Snap! Documentation SnaPal can give students immediate and accurate answers to any questions the...
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16:10 PM CEST
Talia Ye
In-person only
Historically, women have been underrepresented in computer science and STEM careers. In response to this disparity, we decided to start early and ignite the passion for computer science in middle school girls. In late 2023, we (two high school girls) created Tech Together, dedicated to sharing our passion for computing with younger girls.
By offering individual coaching, online, and in-pe...
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16:25 PM CEST
Dan Garcia
In-person only
This talk is an extension of the wonderful N-gram Generative AI project demonstrated at Robolot 2024. I was absolutely captivated by it, but always wondered which of the original source materials were being drawn from for a particular word or note. I extended the project to include that, visualized as a Snap! table view with columns of each of the sources, and the values in the rows are a he...
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13:15 PM CEST
Xavier Pi
In-person only
The range of workflow automation platforms has been growing recently. Platforms like n8n, Make, or Zapier, as well as environments like Microsoft Power Platform, aim to make workflow automation accessible to any citizen. Each of these platforms presents these concepts as something that starts from scratch, offering alternatives to one another. Having the foundations of computational thinking...
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13:30 PM CEST
Jordi Binefa
In-person only
Explanation of PLCedu Open Source Hardware project using Snap!
Vocational training students use PLCedu as an educational PLC to interact with industrial-level signals (12V/24V digital inputs and outputs, -10V to 10V analog inputs and 0V to 10V analog outputs). They are controlling it using Snap! and Python.
16:15 PM CEST
Konstantin Oltmann
In-person only
This talk presents a promising approach for teaching core computing concepts by combining Snap! and LEGO® robotics in the context of a classic puzzle: the Rubik’sCube®. We use a LEGO® Education SPIKE robot capable of solving a physical Rubik’s Cube, interlaced with a digital twin: a virtual cube model developed in Snap! that controls the physical robot instantaneously.
Concep...
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16:30 PM CEST
Francesco Ragazzini
In-person only
This project, developed by Francesco Ragazzini and Mariabeatrice Starace under the supervision of Prof Ricci, explores how Snap! can be transformed into a metacognitive tool for supporting the development of computational thinking beyond the act of coding itself. Inspired by the spirit and ideas of S.Papert, our project levera...
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16:45 PM CEST
Volker Enders, Gerd Ruehle
In-person only
Right from the start of Snap! you could communicate with your users/audience using the Say-or Think-Block for displaying data as well as using the Ask-Block for getting data from users. More option were coming with the Write-Block, Costume-from-text-Block. However you only have the option to display data for reading on the scene and receiving data by manually typing into a up-popping input f...
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17:00 PM CEST
Joek van Montfort
In-person only
The connection between Math and CS is strong in theory. We share language, concepts and methods. In education, however, the fields are strongly separated. We don't help each other, sometimes even dislike each other. Summer of 2025 I'll use TurtleStitch at two conferences to bridge the differences. First at Bridges2025 which a...
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17:25 PM CEST
Surferwolf
In-person only
Explore how TurtleStitch can be used to code rose curves and petal-based flower designs for paper cutting. This talk showcases how block-based programming brings math, geometry, and digital making together through creative coding to produce beautiful paper flower arrangements.
17:40 PM CEST
Akos Ledeczi
In-person only
As computer science teachers seek ways to engage students with real-world, collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects, this talk will introduce exciting new features in NetsBlox, an extension of Snap!. NetsBlox enables students to create distributed computing projects using just two simple concepts: Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) for accessing online data and services, and message ...
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17:55 PM CEST
SnapTranslatase
In-person only
SnapTranslatase is a user-friendly way for anyone to learn more about an RNA sequence they find themselves with. Provided the user has an RNA sequence they obtained, through, say RNA-seq, SnapTranslatase will allow them to not only learn the amino acids encoded for by the sequence, not only learn said amino acid sequence in FASTA format (an amino acid sequence format commonly used), but also...
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15:15 PM CEST
Ursula Wolz
In-person only
Visual Programming Languages now have a 20 year history. They support an introduction to the fundamentals of traditional programming. In 2008 Jane Margolis published "Stuck in the Shallow End" in which she asserted that young people of color, especially girls, were stuck in the shallow end of the pool when it came to learning to code. The analogy was drawn from the very real phenomenon back...
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15:30 PM CEST
Andrea Mayr-Stalder, Joek van Montfort
In-person only
This summer, TurtleStitch turns ten. To mark the occasion, we are hosting the TurtleStitch10 Fest in Tilburg (NL), bringing together educators, artists, coders, and makers to celebrate a decade of creative coding and machine embroidery. Over two days, participants will share their practices, projects, and pedagogical approaches--from classroom experiences and hybrid fabrication methods to al...
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15:45 PM CEST
Uwe Lorenz, Jens Mönig, Jadga Hügle
In-person only
Neural networks and deep learning are an important part of current artificial intelligence. Therefore, we want people to understand what's happening under the hood. We've used a single ‘layer’ sprite to create a classic Rosenblatt perceptron. Duplicate the layer sprite multiple times and customise the receivers in the transmission blocks to create deep neural networks. Use the setup script t...
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16:00 PM CEST
Glen Bull
In-person only
The Snap! 3D-Printed Microscope is designed to enable students to explore automated microscopy. It can be fabricated for $50 but uses the same optical lenses as commercial microscopes. Therefore, the quality of images captured using the Snap! Microscope are comparable to those acquired with commercial school microscopes.
A school with a maker space can conserve scarce resources by f...
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