Machine Learning Workshop!

On Saturday, April 4th, All Girls STEM Society hosted our Machine Learning workshop at the Mira Mesa Library. The girls learned about artificial intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, and reinforcement learning. They also got to deep dive into neural networks and robotics through various activities.

Our woman in STEM this workshop was the renowned Ada Lovelace, who defined the terms that computers could not actually be intelligent, along with inventing the first computer. This tied into the lecture about what artificial intelligence is and how it works.

For the first activity, the girls got to explore neural networks through writing numbers on a computer screen and watching the computer in real time as it narrowed down their writing and deciphered what digit they wrote. Then they further explore AI through Teachable Machine, training the AI to categorize various hand gestures as rock, paper, or scissors. 
After a short lecture on reinforcement learning, the highlight of this workshop arrived. Each table was given a Raspberry Pi Pico Kit and diagrams of 5 different robotics projects they could make. They spent the last hour of the workshop making LEDs light up at the push of a button, temperature sensors, intruder alarms, and even piano-playing robots! The girls had some much fun exploring all the possibilities of their robotics kits!

​The Machine Learning Workshop was super fun, educational, and inspiring! We hope to see you at our annual All Girls Math Tournament on May 23rd!