Cue the lights! Cue the music! Picademy is back for another year stateside. We’re excited to bring our free computer science and digital making professional development program for educators to four new cities this summer — you can apply right now
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2018 Picademy dates in the United States
Back in May 2013, we heard from Dominique Laloux about an exciting project to bring Raspberry Pi labs to schools in rural West Africa.
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More Raspberry Pi labs in West Africa
In July, winners of the first two Pioneers challenges came together at Google HQ at Kings Cross in London for the Pioneers Summer Camp. This event was a special day to celebrate their awesomeness, and to give them access to some really cool stuff. Pioneers: Google Summer Camp 2017 In July this year, winners of the first two Pioneers challenges came to Google HQ in London’s Kings Cross to meet, make and have an awesome time.
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Pioneers Summer Camp 2017
What happens when Netflix gives its staff two days to hack the platform and create innovative (and often unnecessary) variations on the streaming service? This. This is what happens.
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Netflix develops Morse code search option
At the beginning of his new build’s video, YouTuber Michael Reeves discusses a revelation he had about why some people don’t subscribe to his channel: The real reason some people don’t subscribe is that when you hit this button, that’s all, that’s it, it’s done. It’s not special, it’s not enjoyable. So how do we make subscribing a fun, enjoyable process?
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Michael Reeves and the ridiculous Subscriber Robot
Sony UK TEC has grown along with Rapberry Pi evertiq.com And during the summer the facility celebrated reaching the 10 million Raspberry Pi manufacturing milestone after only five years. To illustrate this achievement; every single person living in my native Sweden would be able to own a Raspberry Pi – and …
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Sony UK TEC has grown along with Rapberry Pi – evertiq.com
While planning her trips to upcoming educational events, Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Amanda Haughs decided to incorporate the Pi Zero W into a rather nifty accessory. Final Pi Tote bag Uploaded by Amanda Haughs on 2017-07-08.
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Ms. Haughs’ tote-ally awesome Raspberry Pi bag
For the last few years , we have held a big Raspberry Pi community event in Cambridge around Raspberry Pi’s birthday , where people have come together for a huge party with talks, workshops, and more. We want more people to have the chance to join in with our birthday celebrations next year, so we’re going to be coordinating Raspberry Jams all over the world to take place over the Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend, 3–4 March 2018
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Announcing the Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2018
To everyone’s surprise, the sun has actually managed to show its face this summer in Britain! So we’re not feeling too guilty for having asked the newest crop of Pioneers to Make it outdoors . In fact, the 11- to 16-year-olds that took part in our second digital making challenge not only made things that celebrate the outdoors – some of them actually carted their entire coding setup into the garden.
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Pioneers winners: Make it outdoors challenge
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the 2017 ISTE Conference & Expo , which saw over 20,000 educators convene in San Antonio earlier this summer. As a new Raspberry Pi Foundation team member , I was thrilled to meet the many Raspberry Pi Certified Educators (RCEs) in attendance. They came from across the country to share their knowledge, skills, and advice with fellow educators interested in technology and digital making
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Raspberry Pi Certified Educators shine at ISTE 2017