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Computing in schools: the report card

Today the Royal Society published After the Reboot , a report card on the state of computing education in UK schools. It’s a serious piece of work, published with lots of accompanying research and data, and well worth a read if you care about these issues (which, if you’re reading this blog, I guess you do)

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Raspberry Pi team awarded UK’s top engineering prize – NewsBytes – NewsBytes

NewsBytes Raspberry Pi team awarded UK's top engineering prize – NewsBytes NewsBytes UK-based Raspberry Pi's team won the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award at London.

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Pi-powered hands-on statistical model at the Royal Society

Physics! Particles! Statistical modelling! Quantum theory! How can non-scientists understand any of it? Well, students from Durham University are here to help you wrap your head around it all – and to our delight, they’re using the power of the Raspberry Pi to do it! At the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition , taking place in London from 4-9 July, the students are presenting a Pi-based experiment demonstrating the importance of statistics in their field of research. Modelling the invisible – Summer Science Exhibition 2017 The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2017 features 22 exhibits of cutting-edge, hands-on UK science , along with special events and talks.

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Raspberry Pi scores UK’s top engineering award – BBC News – BBC News

BBC News Raspberry Pi scores UK's top engineering award – BBC News BBC News The Raspberry Pi has won the UK's top engineering award. The team behind the device was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Prize at a … Raspberry Pi wins UK's top engineering award Wired.co.uk Raspberry Pi creators win top UK engineering prize – Financial Times Financial Times Raspberry Pi wins Royal Academy's MacRobert Prize for Engineering The INQUIRER TechRadar  – New Electronics all 19 news articles »

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Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1 – video!

As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we sponsored the Royal Institution’s 2014 Christmas Lectures. They have just made the video of the first of the Lectures – the one with all the Raspberry Pis in it – available to watch online, wherever you are in the world.

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Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1 – video!

As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we sponsored the Royal Institution’s 2014 Christmas Lectures. They have just made the video of the first of the Lectures – the one with all the Raspberry Pis in it – available to watch online, wherever you are in the world.

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Talks from Team Pi

I’ve been pointed at a couple of videos which might interest you: you’ll learn something new from both of these. First up, Eben explains more about the Compute Module to our friends at RS Components: And a little later on, Gordon, our Head of Software, gave a talk to the Prime Conference at the Royal Institution about the decisions that led us to repatriate manufacture of the Raspberry Pi to the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syqDIopa5rA Enjoy!

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