Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Picademy New Dates And Location Announced Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts might be interested to know that the official Raspberry Pi Foundation has this week announced more details about the ongoing Raspberry Pi Picademy including new dates and locations. The Raspberry Pi Picademy is a free two-day ..
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Mad Fer It in Manchester It’s been a while since we blogged on all things Picademy, so here’s a quick update… For the uninitiated, Picademy is our free, two-day CPD event series for educators who want to use the Raspberry Pi for projects in the classroom.
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Picademy: New dates announced!
Computer History Museum and Raspberry Pi Foundation Launch Picademy USA GlobeNewswire (press release) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In partnership with the Computer History Museum the Raspberry Pi Foundation will bring Picademy, its educator training workshop, to the United States in early 2016.
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Computer History Museum and Raspberry Pi Foundation Launch Picademy USA – GlobeNewswire (press release)
At this very moment, the Raspberry Pi education team are in Exeter nearing the end of the second day of Picademy #10; Day 2 is Project Day, and the #picademy hashtag on Twitter is full of photos of biscuit-tin robots, papercrafts, Babbage bears and breadboards as the teams share their projects. Primary, secondary and post-16 teachers can be part of CPD like this: Picademy #11 takes place on 13 and 14 July at Pi Towers in Cambridge, UK, and you can apply here
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Apply now for Picademy in July
ElectronicsWeekly.com Raspberry Pi teams with Google to train teachers ElectronicsWeekly.com Dubbed the Picademy@Google programme, the first will be the Google Digital Garage situated at Leeds Docks and others are planned. The training courses will be a mix of hands-on and project-based learning and will be free to attend for teachers.
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We love introducing educators to the Raspberry Pi; that’s why the education team are always on the road, at conferences, shows and events, sharing the Pi’s learning potential. Last year, we started a teacher training programme, and invited educators from all over the world to our headquarters for some fun hands-on learning. We called it Picademy
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Launching Picademy@Google Leeds
We’re always really excited to see the resources and tools we make being used by kids in school. This video is from Benton Park School in Leeds, where a Sonic Pi orchestra put on a live coding performance recently
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The Benton Park Live Coding Orchestra
At Picademy , our awesome free training course for teachers, I run a workshop to introduce teachers to using the camera module with Python, and show them how to wire up a GPIO button they can use to trigger the camera. I always make a point of saying “now you know this, what can you make it do?” and suggest some uses for the setup – stop-motion animation, motion sensing or sending pictures to Twitter
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Make a Tweeting Babbage
Road trip. These are the two words that Clive, our Director of Education says to me on a regular basis. In fact, he has promised me a road trip to Pencoed in Wales to visit the factory where our Raspberry Pis are manufactured in the UK for some time now.
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Picademy Cymru
Are you a teacher? Have you got back-to-school blues after yesterday’s return to the staffroom
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Final Call for September Picademy Applicants