Open Day at the 31st IT High School!

Spend the first day of spring at the best IT high school in Kraków!

You will have the opportunity:

• meet the teachers
• meet the principal
• meet your future classmates
• learn how we teach advanced courses
• understand what makes us unique

As part of the open day we will organize workshops for 8th-grade students! Details below:

Can Life Be Programmed? — Dr. Roman Czapla (computer science teacher for class A)
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
Time: 10:00
Place: Kazimierza Odnowiciela 2, room 217
Register: Zarejestruj się

Can a few simple rules create something that begins to behave like a living organism? During the workshop participants will see how algorithms based on precise rules work and will realize that surprisingly complex “digital worlds” can emerge from very simple instructions. We will start from a few clearly defined rules — and then check where they can lead us. Together we will predict the next stages of its evolution, test our reasoning and verify whether the computer really does exactly what we programmed it to do. Can the future of such a world be computed? Can we always predict the consequences of even the simplest rules? This meeting is for those who want to see computer science as the study of rules, modeling and simulating reality — and to find out that sometimes a few instructions are enough to launch something that begins to live by its own rhythm.

Smarter thanks to AI… or just reinforced errors? — Jakub Gajda (computer science teacher for class B)
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
Time: 11:00
Place: Kazimierza Odnowiciela 2, room 216
Register: Zarejestruj się

AI tools available for several years can speed up learning, organize knowledge and suggest solutions, but they just as easily generate convincing… and incorrect answers. In the workshop we will show how to think about “hallucinations” not as a curiosity but as a real threat in education and work — especially when time pressure wins over verification. We will look into prompt engineering as a set of habits: how to ask questions, how to refine context and how to enforce verifiability instead of being satisfied with nice-sounding sentences. We will also compare practical AI work environments, including Arena AI and NotebookLM, and how they change the use of sources. We will show both sides of the coin: how AI can support a student in preparation, analysis and practice, and where it most often misleads by excessive confidence and lack of transparent foundations. The theme of responsibility will also be voiced: what it means to “verify” an AI answer and how to build a culture of critical thinking instead of a cult of the tool.

Coordinate systems — why doesn’t a mathematician get lost on a plane? — Dr. Agnieszka Korpała (math and physics teacher)
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2026
Time: 12:00
Place: Kazimierza Odnowiciela 2, room 314
Register: Zarejestruj się

Did you know that to reach a destination you do not always have to go “right and up”? There are maps where distance is measured by angle and the path is determined by a radius. We invite 7th and 8th grade students to an exceptional math workshop that will change your perspective on the plane! You will learn why the Cartesian system is not everything. We will explore the polar system (perfect for navigators and radars) and check how to describe the same point in different systems. You will understand when it is worth swapping “x and y” for “angle and distance”. Time for challenges! Under the instructor’s guidance you will tackle a set of tasks and logical puzzles. You will break codes, draw hidden shapes and solve problems that cannot be tackled with traditional methods. What will you gain? You will look at mathematics from a completely new, practical perspective, gain skills beyond the school curriculum (excellent preparation for high school!), and see that changing the point of view (literally!) makes solving difficult problems easier.

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL! Workshops run by our students are also waiting for you! Details coming soon.