Profound knowledge about at least the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become increasingly important for careers in science and engineering. Therefore we present an innovative educational project teaching fundamental concepts of artificial intelligence at high school level. We developed a high school AI-course (called "iRobot") dealing with major topics of AI and computer science (automatons, agent systems, data structures, search algorithms, graphs, problem solving by searching, planning, machine learning) according to suggestions in the current literature. The course was divided into seven weekly teaching units of two hours each, comprising both theoretical and hands-on components. We conducted and empirically evaluated a pilot project in a representative Austrian high school. The results of the evaluation show that the participating students have become familiar with the concepts included in the course and the various topics addressed.
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