When I first joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over a year ago now, one of my first assignments was to build a weather station around the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to our friends at Oracle (the large US database company), the Foundation received a grant not only to design and build a Raspberry Pi weather station for schools, but also to put together a whole education programme to go with it.
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Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools
Last week, checking out posts people had made on our Facebook page and the projects they were telling us about, one in particular caught my attention. Sarah Roman , a high school English teacher from New Jersey, had written: Our English class is going to be using the Raspberry Pi in order to build book-based video games, incorporating Scratch, Sonic Pi, and Python. The students are incredibly excited […] There was a link to an Indiegogo campaign ; we love to see Raspberry Pi used creatively outside of computing lessons, so I clicked on it
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Teaching literature with Raspberry Pi
Tech companies including Google, O2 and Raspberry Pi will support coding … The Next Web In a smaller project, Our Lady's Catholic High School in Preston will work with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to support other schools with computer lessons. The Department for Education is offering £3.6 million in matched funding to support the new ..
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Tech companies including Google, O2 and Raspberry Pi will support coding … – The Next Web
Back in July we wrote about an exciting project aiming to make computing accessible to school students in South Africa, where most schools have no computers at all and many lack electricity. Solar Powered Learning was raising funds for a Raspberry Pi computer lab at a secondary school in Johannesburg, with the aim of creating a facility that can be reproduced all over South Africa, and powered by solar energy where mains electricity isn’t available. Their Indiegogo campaign was successful; we donated a classroom set of Pis and accessories, and project manager Taskeen Adam and fellow organisers set about coordinating volunteers to sand, drill, paint, lay cables, build desks and fit curtains
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A Raspberry Pi computer lab for learners in South Africa
Last week saw the London Film Festival open with the premier of The Imitation Game , a film which chronicles the awe-inspiring work of Alan Turing cracking the German naval Enigma machine at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking centre during WWII.
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Seeking the next Alan Turing – the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge
As an educational charity, education is at the heart of what we do here at Raspberry Pi. This year has seen the education team grow in number, resulting in the development of our new learning and teaching materials (a set of resources we’re adding to all the time), a free teacher training programme ( Picademy ), the introduction of competitions like the Poster Competition and the current Sonic Pi competition , all at the same time as running and participating in outreach events across the globe.
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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
I heard about plans for a new Indiegogo fundraiser last week.
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Solar-powered Raspberry Pi school
On 14th and 15th April we ran the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for Teachers: ‘Picademy’ for short. We invited 24 teachers from all over the UK to come to Pi Towers and be part of a very different type of training programme
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Picademy – UK teachers, apply to take part!
Allen Heard, Head of Computing at Ysgol Bryn Elian in North Wales (that’s Welsh for Bryn Elian School), is visiting us at Pi Towers today.
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Learning through gaming