Back in February 2014, Matt Timmons-Brown captured Gordon, our Head of Software, and would not let him go to the café for his “Gordon Special” until he had spilled all of our secrets . Gordon thinking about ‘Specials” as the ghost of a Toltec shaman hoots mournfully over his shoulder
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Call for questions: Q & A interview with the engineering and education teams
Earlier this year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation supported a University of Cambridge team of two researchers, Dr Maximilian Bock and Aftab Jalia, in a pilot project exploring the possibilities of providing computing access and education in rural schools in India.
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Exploring computing education in rural schools in India
Young Rewired State is a network of coders around the world. Every year an event is held in the UK to give young people the opportunity to collaborative while working on a project to make something interesting with open data, and to learn skills while exposed to new technologies. The Festival of Code is a week where volunteer-led centres around the country play host to local kids (18 and under) who work in teams, guided by mentors from industry, to create a software application, a web app, a game, a phone app or even a hardware hack that utilises an open data set to provide a solution to a real world problem.
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YRS Festival of Code 2014 – around the UK and at Pi Towers
Ben here: I’m on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge, UK. As part of our outreach work I’m visiting the USA next month, where I could be visiting your school or hackspace. Standing in front of people talking about Raspberry Pi
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Ben’s Raspberry Pi US Tour – August 2014
This week started with the second run of Picademy – our free CPD course for teachers. Two days at Pi Towers learning interesting and engaging ways to use Raspberry Pi in the classroom, led by Carrie Anne and supported by our education team
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Creating Resources on GitHub Guide from Picademy 2
Eagle-eyed followers of all things Pi will have noticed that Craig Richardson , Minecraft savant (here’s his free book on teaching with Minecraft , which should be required reading for all teachers – and here are some recipe cards he’s produced to get your kids started) and all-round lovely chap, has been popping up a lot in photos of the office on Twitter recently. Craig’s been hanging out here a lot, not least because he started a full-time role with the education team here at Pi Towers yesterday
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Welcome Craig!
You may have noticed on Twitter (or from their absence) that some of our team were away in San Francisco last week for Maker Faire. Clive, Carrie Anne and Alex Bradbury joined forces with Pimoroni and ran a stall promoting Raspberry Pi and its use in education. Here’s a video MAKE put out, featuring Clive talking about some of our recent developments such as the free educational material for everyone to teach , learn and make with Raspberry Pi: The team spoke to a lot of people at Maker Faire, gave talks, visited hackspaces and crammed a lot of outreach in to the trip – so once they’ve recovered we’ll be sharing their experiences and adventures in further blog posts.
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‘Educating with Raspberry Pi’ at Maker Faire
Liz: Last week’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam was one of the biggest yet. I asked the organisers, Michael Horne (whom you might know as Recantha: he has a brilliant Raspberry Pi blog , which you should check out) and Tim Richardson , whether they’d be prepared to write a guest post for us about the event. They’ve done so in spades
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Cambridge Jam: focus on education
Cambridge News Massive funding boost for pioneering move to turn Cambridge innovation … Cambridge News Cambridge Junction, Cambridge University Faculty of Education and The Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced they are to receive the cash bonanza from the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts towards the pioneering project developing the making of music
Cambridge Junction and Raspberry Pi get big grant to make music Cambridge News Cambridge Junction, along with Cambridge University Faculty of Education and The Raspberry Pi Foundation have been given £124,633 by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. The money will go towards a pioneering project making music using the Raspberry