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UK Scouts! New resources to support the Digital Maker badge

Six months ago, we announced our partnership with the Scout Association in the UK: we launched the new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge, releasing new badge requirements , along with resources for stages 1 and 2, to help tens of thousands of young people learn how to create with technology.

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Raspberry Pi at Scouts Wintercamp

As well as working with classroom teachers and supporting learning in schools, Raspberry Pi brings computing and digital making to educators and learners in all sorts of other settings. I recently attended Wintercamp , a camp for Scouts at Gilwell Park. With some help from Brian and Richard from Vodafone, I ran a Raspberry Pi activity space introducing Scouts to digital making with Raspberry Pi, using the Sense HAT, the Camera Module, and GPIO, based on some of our own learning resources

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DIY: Protect your Girl Scout cookies with a Raspberry Pi – ZDNet

ZDNet DIY: Protect your Girl Scout cookies with a Raspberry Pi ZDNet That's why Initial State's engineers jumped at the chance to bring our cookie-loving readers a unique Raspberry Pi 2-based build tutorial designed to protect your cookies. What follows are instructions to build your own layered security system around …

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