On April 3, 2025, thirteen schoolgirls from grades 7 to 11 attended the workshop "AI in Medicine - Using Mathematics to Solve Real Problems" offered by the SCC's Computational and Mathematical Modeling Program (CAMMP) project as part of Girls' Day. Girls' Day gives secondary school students the opportunity to gain an insight into the research fields at KIT.
After a welcome in the Audimax, the schoolgirls were accompanied to the workshop. There, the workshop team Lisa-Marie Volz and Cedric Neuwirth (student assistants at CAMMP) welcomed them and introduced them to the subject area of classification problems, for example via everyday application examples such as an e-mail spam filter. The students then worked in small groups to develop their own model for classification in medical diagnosis. In doing so, they dealt with the functioning of AI systems on a simple level and became aware of the importance of mathematics in such systems and how it is used there. The students then trained their own AI systems for classifying images in groups of two, which the other students were then allowed to try out in a gallery walk. Finally, the workshop participants discussed the limits and expansion possibilities of the model they had previously created together with the project members. At the end of Girls'Day at KIT, the students were accompanied to the Audimax and bid farewell.
Contact: Dr. Katharina Bata