Innovate@BU Celebrates First Year of Nurturing Student Innovation | BU Today BU Today “Surprise us,” the University told its students one year ago, when it announced Innovate@BU, an initiative designed to set free their creativity and support the …
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Coolest Projects, our world-leading technology fair for young people, takes place in seven countries this year: Ireland , the UK , USA , Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Milan in Italy. Volunteer-led Coolest Projects events Teams of marvellous volunteers organise and run the events in the Netherlands, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Milan! They are doing incredible work to give children in their regions the chance to present their tech creations and be celebrated for their skills and creativity. And we want to support you in our global community to do the same: organise your own regional Coolest Projects events, wherever you are, so that young people near you can showcase their work and be inspired by others’ inventions.
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Our ultimate guide to running your own Coolest Projects event
Coolest Projects is the world’s leading technology fair for young people.
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Announcing Coolest Projects 2019
When I heard we were merging with CoderDojo , I was delighted. CoderDojo is a wonderful organisation with a spectacular community, and it’s going to be great to join forces with the team and work towards our common goal: making a difference to the lives of young people by making technology accessible to them. You may remember that last year Philip and I went along to Coolest Projects , CoderDojo’s annual event at which their global community showcase their best makes.
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Pioneers, your next challenge is here! Do you like making things?
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Pioneers: the second challenge is…
Live coder, researcher, MagPi contributor and creator of the music live coding platform Sonic Pi , Sam Aaron has recently found the time to teach BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ MistaJam how to code music. Sam and MistaJam look at Bizet’s Carmen before working their magic on updating it and creating a new arrangement through live coding. If you are based in the UK then you can watch their session on the BBC website here . Live coding masterclass for DJ MistaJam from Sam Aaron with Sonic Pi If you are unable to watch the video there is no need to feel left out, Sam has provided the code from the session for you to play in Sonic Pi and experiment with yourself.
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DJ MistaJam and Sam Aaron compose using code
This week, Dr Sam Aaron released the much anticipated final version of Sonic Pi v2.0. It will be replacing Sonic Pi v1 on Raspbian very soon, and you will be able to get it via our Downloads page (we will let you know when).
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Sonic Pi v2.0 competition for schools is launched!
BBC News Raspberry Pi heads for the open ocean BBC News In the same way that sport reveals character, the Raspberry Pi is revealing the creativity of the people who own one of the barebones computers. Confronted with that tiny device, some have seen a way to play old arcade games, as a media server or to …
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