As regular readers will know, it’s been a busy time here at Pi Towers recently with the launch of our new website , free educational materials and £1m education fund . On the engineering side of things we’ve also been very busy over the past year, and not to be outdone by the education team, we are ready to take the wraps off something special, this time aimed at business and industrial users.
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Raspberry Pi Compute Module: new product!
ComputerWeekly.com (blog) Intel beefs up open source Raspberry Pi challenger and slashes price ComputerWeekly.com (blog) Occasionally touted as a ” Raspberry Pi challenger”, Intel's Minnowboard Max is arguably better suited to the professional and hobbyist engineering space and is unlikely at this stage to make inroads into Raspberry Pi's popularity inside the education …
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Intel beefs up open source Raspberry Pi challenger and slashes price – ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
It’s been a busy month for us here at Pi towers, and after the recent announcement of Picademy and the launch of the new website with an increased focus on educational resources, you may be wondering what’s next for our educational mission. Without disappearing too far down the rabbit-hole of superlatives, I can say we are all super-excited to announce the launch of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Education Fund. Thanks to the support of the community over the past two years through buying Raspberry Pis and building inspiring, innovative projects, we’ve been able to build up a bag of funds to spend on our education mission
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Announcing our million-pound education charity fund
You’ll notice that things round here don’t look like they used to. This website has had a comprehensive overhaul: we hope you like what you see. ( That stuff from yesterday
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Welcome to our new website
I am very pleased to announce the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for Educators! The Raspberry Picademy will be a free professional development experience for primary and secondary teachers, initially for those here in the UK. Over the course of two days, (14th – 15th April 2014), 24 applicants will get hands-on experience here at Pi Towers, and discover the many ways in which the Raspberry Pi can be used in the classroom, working with our team of experts. Raspberry Pi robotics at Kimbolton School We will be looking to select 24 teachers for this program who meet our criteria and demonstrate a passion for education and for sharing practice, whatever their level of computing experience.
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Picademy – Free CPD for Teachers
Ben Llewellyn Smith is Head of Computing and ECDL manager at AKS in Lytham St Annes. He showed us this video just before last week’s Jamboree, to demonstrate his newly installed classroom Debian server being used by a class of GCSE students who all use Raspberry Pis
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A GCSE lesson
There’s been a media brouhaha about coding recently**. The Hour of Code puts this into perspective—it’s all about demystifying what coding is, having a play and realising that it isn’t as arcane or difficult as you thought
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The Hour of Code and all things educational
Some parents take the carrot approach to homework enforcement, others the stick. This is the best carrot I’ve ever seen
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Mission Control desk
A lot of you have had huge success in the last few months using our very own Carrie Anne Philbin’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi as a resource for kids of all ages. It’s engaging, friendly and works really well in getting kids excited and confident about using their Raspberry Pi. So much so that we’ve found schools are ordering classroom sets; so are after-school clubs, and we’ve had amazing feedback from kids and their parents
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Get Carrie Anne’s book for six quid! (And a competition!)
Yesterday, GitHub announced a new initiative to help students, teachers and schools use GitHub for collaboration and sharing to provide a better learning experience for all: GitHub Education .
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Github goes to school