Six grants awarded by Wrocław Academic Centre went to student research clubs and the culture agencies at WUST. One of them went to Breadboard Computing from our Faculty. The city supported student initiatives with a total of 48,000 pln.

In this edition of the FAST program, students from 13 Wrocław universities (public and private) submitted 134 applications for funding. The money was granted to 19 organizations. The grants could be obtained both for the project and for student activities: social, cultural, scientific and research. As Wrocław Academic Centre explains, it could be spent on organising an exhibition, concert or workshop, a research trip, a meeting with an authority, or a trip to a competition. The centre's website reads: – In other words, everything that is: creative, an expression of academic entrepreneurship, of a scientific value, unconventional and surprising.

The grants were given to the following WUST organisations:

• Academic Choir at WUST – a cappella concerts of academic choirs – 10,000 pln,
• Academic Aviation Club at WUST – modification of an unmanned aircraft in the Advanced class for the SAE Aero Design competition – 10,000 pln,
• BioAddMed in consortium with Biosus and Bioinformaticians from the University of Life Sciences – project Bioverse – 9,000 pln,
• Student Research Club of Unconventional Off-Road Vehicles – purchase of plane tickets for the Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC 2024) – 7,000 pln,
• WUST in Space – construction of a liquid fuel rocket engine – 7,000 pln,
• Breadboard Computing Student Research Club – 16-bit processor, graphics card and peripherals needed to build a functional computer – PLN 5,000. zloty.

– Of course, we were very happy to receive the grant. We need funds at basically every stage of the project. With the money, we can order the electronic components needed for prototyping and finally transfer the finished design to a PCB – says Jakub Ogrodowczyk, president of the club.

The project is related to the mission of the Breadboard Computing research club. Its members want to learn about and share their knowledge of computer architecture with others. They believe there is no better way to learn how a processor works than by building your own computer from scratch.

– Unfortunately, many people are discouraged from this field because there are not many accessible learning resources on the Internet. To change this, we will run a series of blogs on our club's website in which we will describe the process of creating our project – says the president of Breadboard Computing.

The series of blogs will be published on the website of the research club. You can find it here.