This page contains information on a selection of the activities used in previous Young Visions and Bright Sparks events prior to 2004.

Blackboard and chalk have had their day! IBM's Concept Mapper technology was used at the 2001 event to brainstorm ideas in a guided discussion of the Olympic Games' website.

This competitive activity, supported by IBM's Message Centre, involved transmitting and retransmitting a message using various forms of communication technology, eg. spoken, written, email, fax. The aim is to for it to reach its final destination as close to its original form as possible.

The Internet is becoming an increasingly major part of modern business practice yet it is not inherently secure. Encryption technologies act as the locks and keys of cyberspace, and prevent Internet communication and commerce from becoming as public as mailing a post card. In this activity teams raced to decrypt encrypted messages.

This was a competitive trading game using novel software and IBM WorkPads. This activity, supported by the Hursley Services and Technology department, demonstrated the growing importance of asynchronous transactions and keeping mobile employees in sync.

Hidden robots were guided around a maze to solve various puzzles.

Teams of battling robots were created and controlled.

Teams made the most of limited resources to build a model bridge.

Teams performed operations in binary to match computer calculations.

Speech recognition allowed students to defuse virtual mines.