Survey 2015
Survey 2015
General information
The survey was completed by 32 people, i.e. the response rate was around 16%.
The following picture emerges from the personal survey results:
- 71% boys, 29% girls
- 36% were in the 10th grade, 43% in the 11th grade and 14% in the 8th grade
- 83% came from a grammar school, 3% from a comprehensive school and 13% from a secondary school.
Supplement: Enrolment data
Of the 162 registered pupils (from the towns of Oldenburg, Rastede, Delmenhorst, Bremen and Friesoythe), at least
- 67 from a grammar school
- 61 from a comprehensive school
- from classes
- 8 (12 pupils),
- 10 (14 pupils),
- 11 (37 pupils),
- 12 (23 pupils),
- 12th or 13th grade (32 students)
Lectures
How did you like the lectures you attended?
The frontrunners among the presentations were
- Security aspects of mobile phones
- Smart Grids - On the way to intelligent power grids or: How fish solve distributed optimisation problems
- Dual study programme
- Computing Science Show (for pupils from year 8)
- Ciphers - just a gimmick?
In response to the open question "What did you like most about the presentations?" we received the following answers:
- Ciphers - just a gimmick?
- Informative and entertaining organisation.
- The comprehensible presentation style
- The junior professor's enthusiasm for his topic, I personally didn't really understand much.
- The comprehensibility of the lecture: appropriate vocabulary and explanations.
- The approach was good, understandable and interesting throughout.
- I enjoyed learning how Computing Science is used at the end of projects.
- Formulas and impressive animations (wind power)
Building
How well did you find your way around the building?
- 80% of respondents disagreed with the statement "I found the distances between the stations too long."
- Over 90% agreed with the statement "I found it interesting to see the students' workrooms".
- Over 80% wrote that they always found the station they were looking for.
- Over 70% found their way around the building easily.
- All agreed with the statement "Someone always helped me when I needed it."
Comments on the building question:
- Knew the architecture from another university of a similar year of construction.
- Larger rooms, for spontaneously large numbers of visitors
Exhibits & Presentations
Which exhibits did you visit? How did you like them?
On average, almost all presentations were rated as interesting to very interesting. The frontrunners among the presentations were
- Live analyses in sport (football)
- Autonomous Segways as service robots
- Sorting robots for Smarties
- Rasberry Pi: Navigation with iBeacons
- Quadrocopter
- Hardware-related system development
- Computing Science course and Makey Makey
- Rasberry Pi: Aquarium control
- IllumiMug - intelligent/illuminated mug
Which exhibit/presentation did you like best?
- Autonomous Segways as service robots
- 14) [Computing Science course] Because the students were able to work in an application-orientated way here.
- The sports analyses and the robotics, because you had the opportunity to try something out.
- I found the live analyses in sport very interesting because the exhibit was very application-oriented and also the reference to the tablet.
- I really liked the collaborative modelling because it was interesting to take a closer look at the work of students and learn more about the technical background. You could also talk to the students from this station about their studies and the programme.
- The hardware-related system development, because you could see the independent work of the students and it was interesting to see what kind of simulation was used for the grippers.
- Being able to talk to the students and not seeing the exhibitions is the most important thing
Personal conclusion
Do you agree with the following statements?
- "I can now better imagine what Computing Science is useful for in everyday life and academic appointments." - approx. 78% agreement
- "I could imagine studying Computing Science later." - almost 60% agreement
- "You can have fun with Computing Science." - almost 97% agreement
- "Computing Science can be used to carry out exciting projects." - almost 97% agreement
Free answers:
At the student information day, I learnt ...
- that Computing Science is important for our everyday lives.
- that Computing Science can be very interesting.
- that it can also make sense to go to Oldenburg with an 8th year.
- that you sometimes have to search for toilets for quite a long time
- What project work can look like.
- study something about in general; that you sometimes work in project groups
- that working together in groups is much more effective.
- that you always have to work in a team in Computing Science.
- what studying means and how useful it is.
I was surprised at the information day ...
- that there were so many programmes on offer.
- that the lectures were mostly funny
- the good planning and organisation.
- that the toilets were so hidden
- The variety of the projects.
- the project groups
- that there are so many different areas of Computing Science.
- how boring some of the presentations were
What did you miss on our information day? What could we do better?
- More projects where you can do something yourself.
- I was perfectly happy
- More time to see more projects.
- More signposting of the toilets, which are very hidden
- In our group we heard two lectures on energy, an alternative would also have been interesting.
- How the programme is structured and the topics covered; very few girls; sometimes too full-> better coordination, larger rooms
- I would like to see more insights into the actual programming so that you can see the actual complexity behind a seemingly simple programme.
- There were many stations, but you could only visit maybe half of them due to the time available.
- even deeper insight into programming/development/seeing the work live