Develop Raspberry Pi schools competition will seek new programming talent in Lebanon Develop Raspberry Pi microcomputers will be supplied to more than 30 schools free of charge, with 100 teams of children expected to take part. They will be challenged to develop something that will benefit Lebanon, whether that's for the realms of education ..
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Raspberry Pi schools competition will seek new programming talent in Lebanon – Develop
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Syrian children in Lebanon still have no schools. UNICEF innovator James Cranwell-Ward became interested in low-cost technology that could help deliver education for these vulnerable children; he developed an all-in-one Raspberry Pi-based computer system that can be used for programming and electronics as well as learning across a broader curriculum, and in October, refugees aged 10 to 16 attended their first Raspberry Pi class. One student is 11-year-old Zeinab Al Jusuf: You might recognise those screens; they’re a specially developed UNICEF version of Alex Eames’ HDMIPi screen, and Alex wrote about them for us back in May when this project was in the planning stages
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Non-formal learning for Syrian refugees
Ben: here’s a guest post from one of our great community members, Alex Eames, who’s providing his Kickstarter-funded HDMIPi screens to a UNICE education project in Lebanon. At the end of December 2013 James Cranwell-Ward ( @jcranwellward ) a Technologist working for UNICEF Lebanon emailed us about HDMIPi .
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UNICEF Pi Project to Educate Syrian Children in Lebanon