Six months ago, we announced our partnership with the Scout Association in the UK: we launched the new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge, releasing new badge requirements , along with resources for stages 1 and 2, to help tens of thousands of young people learn how to create with technology.
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UK Scouts! New resources to support the Digital Maker badge
Wherever in the world I meet members of the Raspberry Pi community, I am always amazed by their enthusiasm for learning and making. And I often meet families that are enjoying computing together: kids who have introduced their parents to something that’s a whole new world for them, adults who are sharing a hobby they love with their children or grandchildren or nieces and nephews, and whole families that are learning alongside one another
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Coolest Projects: it’s for the whole family!
Today marks Harry Potter’s 38th birthday.
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Happy Birthday, Harry Potter: wizard-worthy Pi projects
SmartBrief Making with Raspberry Pi SmartBrief I recently attended Picademy, a two-day professional development program sponsored by the Raspberry Pi Association and designed to help educators with their digital making and computing projects. Raspberry Pi is a computer for both learning and … Price drop! Learn how to master Raspberry Pi 3 for under $20 Android Authority (blog) all 2 news articles »
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Making with Raspberry Pi – SmartBrief
Umbrella trees, giant mushrooms, and tiny museums.
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Raspberry Fields 2018: ice cream, robots, and coding
Today we’re launching a new partnership between the Scouts and the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will help tens of thousands of young people learn crucial digital skills for life. In this blog post, I want to explain what we’ve got planned, why it matters, and how you can get involved. This is personal First, let me tell you why this partnership matters to me
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Working with the Scout Association on digital skills for life
Grab your Raspberry Pi, everyone — we’re going on an Easter egg hunt, and all of you are invited! When they’re not chocolate, Easter eggs are hidden content in movies, games, DVD menus, and computers.
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An elephant being eaten by a snake: Easter eggs on your Pi
Each year we take stock at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, looking back at what we’ve achieved over the previous twelve months. We’ve just published our Annual Review for 2017, reflecting on the progress we’ve made as a foundation and a community towards putting the power of digital making in the hands of people all over the world. In the review, you can find out about all the different education programmes we run
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Our 2017 Annual Review
To everyone’s surprise, the sun has actually managed to show its face this summer in Britain! So we’re not feeling too guilty for having asked the newest crop of Pioneers to Make it outdoors . In fact, the 11- to 16-year-olds that took part in our second digital making challenge not only made things that celebrate the outdoors – some of them actually carted their entire coding setup into the garden.
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Pioneers winners: Make it outdoors challenge
When I was a teacher, a question I was constantly asked by curious students was, “Can you teach us how to hack?” Turning this idea on its head, and teaching the techniques behind some of our most important national cyber security measures, is an excellent way of motivating students to do good.
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OctaPi: cluster computing and cryptography