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I spy… Carrie Anne on BBC Technobabble

We were very excited to welcome children’s TV presenter Frankie Vu from CBBC’s Technobabble , a TV show for children dedicated to explaining how technology works in a fun way, to Pi Towers towards the end of 2014 to talk about how computers are often found inside lots of different appliances, toys, and products. In an episode dedicated to Computing , Carrie Anne demonstrates some of our fun projects such as the weather station project and hamster party cam , both of which you can make and build with your students thanks to our free resources

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A Raspberry Pi computer lab for learners in South Africa

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

The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo

Dominique Laloux first got in touch with us in May 2013 when he was on the point of leaving to spend a year in the rural Kuma region of Togo in Western Africa, an area where, until 2012, 75% of teachers had never used a computer. He had previously joined a team of Togolese friends to set up the Kuma Computer Center in the mountain village of Kuma Tokpli for the students and teachers of five local secondary schools, and planned to introduce Raspberry Pis there. The building that currently houses Kuma Computer Center’s first computer room in Kuma Tokpli We next heard from Dominique earlier this month.

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The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo

Exploring computing education in rural schools in India

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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University course trades textbook for Raspberry Pi – opensource.com

University course trades textbook for Raspberry Pi opensource.com First, the students watch this presentation to understand how easy it is to use the Raspberry Pi . They learn how to: Run a web server using a single line of Python. Run a customized web server that parses the URL query line.

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Google Gives 15000 Raspberry Pi Computer Boards to UK Students – T.H.E. Journal

Google Gives 15000 Raspberry Pi Computer Boards to UK Students T.H.E. Journal The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable organization in the UK that develops the credit-card sized ARM processor-based computer boards. Students can connect an SD memory card, keyboard, mouse, and display, and then install Linux and learn to …

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Google Funds Raspberry Pi Donations of Computers to UK Students – Open Equal Free

Google Funds Raspberry Pi Donations of Computers to UK Students Open Equal Free Recently, Google and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have teamed up to provide up to 15,000 free skeleton computers to be available for secondary students in the United Kingdom. These computers will be given to students who show a desire to learning ..

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