Announcing our ‘Gender Balance in Computing’ project
RSS I am excited to reveal that a consortium of partners has been awarded £2.4 million
It’s been a while since we blogged about Skycademy, the High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) CPD event we ran back in August. However, six weeks on, we have a lot to talk about! Skycademy CPD – August We started back in February with the idea that we’d like to train 24 educators to launch a HAB flight…
– I guess that’s all that was left after administrators got their quarter of a million
Findings from our study of pair programming for teaching Computing to pupils aged 8-11, part of our Gender Balance in Computing research programme.
In this £2.4 million research programme, funded by the Department for Education
Today’s grant from Google (if you have’t read the post about it yet, go and have a look before you continue with this one) has also enabled us to pick up our newest hire, Clive Beale. If you’ve been visiting this website regularly over the last 18 months or so, you may recognise Clive as one…
I g+’ed about donating million Pi to kids in underdeveloped countries ~4 days back
Today’s been a bit unlike most Tuesdays at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Today we’re the recipients of a very generous grant from Google Giving, which will provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model Bs for schoolkids around the UK. Google’s Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt, has just been to visit Cambridge, and he and Eben have been teaching…
day at google: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01/28/2142244/google-pledges-pi-million-dollars-in-pwnium
We’re looking for 24 teachers (or youth leaders) to take part in a FREE two-and-a-half day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event aiming to provide experience of high altitude ballooning to educators, and demonstrating how it can be used as an engaging teaching opportunity. Over the last few year I’ve seen many awesome uses of the Raspberry…
we have to show for it in the educational content beyond the amazing roughly six million
Ben here: I’m on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge, UK. As part of our outreach work I’m visiting the USA next month, where I could be visiting your school or hackspace. Calling all Pi-thusiasts! I’m visiting in August and if you’d like me to visit your hackspace, speak at your school or…
(Three million of you can’t be wrong.)
We let algorithms make decisions that impact our lives in large and small ways. Raspberry Pi’s Mac Bowley invites you to discuss the ethics behind algorithms.
was elected with almost 60% of the votes last election, and he only used U$1.8 million
Dave: We’re really happy to announce a new project in partnership with British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake, UK Space and the European Space Agency: we’re sending Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station! Read on to find out how to get your code running on them… Leading UK space organisations have joined forces with British…
the UK Space Agency, also revealed that the UK Space Agency has been given a £2 million
From September 2014 Computing will be a subject in its own right in English schools. Of course at Raspberry Pi Towers we are delighted (and I mean dancing around like a drunk uncle at a wedding reception delighted) that young people will now have the opportunity to study one of the most creative, exciting and…
They’ve thrown a few million quid at third parties to deal with the CPD issue.
