We are a charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.
hobbies and passions that they currently have, rather than thinking they have to
The 2017-18 Astro Pi challenge, open to students from all ESA member states, has two separate missions. One of them guarantees your code will run in space!
Mission Zero For teachers and students who are keen to take part but who don’t have
We are excited to launch a newly refreshed theory of change that describes how we pursue our mission to support young people. Find out more.
To help us empower young people to do this, we have identified three broad sets of
Retired educator, Bob Brown, is taking his Picademy training to the masses by introducing computing and digital making to other educators
The moment his students have that “Aha!”
Local specialists discuss key issues in supporting young people in low-income areas in the UK, USA, and Guyana with computing education.
To support young people at risk of educational disadvantage because they don’t have
Liz: Andrew Mulholland is a first-year undergraduate student at Queen’s College Belfast, and the overall winner of 2014’s Talk Talk Digital Hero award. We’ve known him for a few years (he did work experience with us this summer – he created the Grandpa Scarer learning resource for us with Matt Timmons-Brown). Andrew’s been setting up events to introduce…
At the Jam we also have all the previous months’ activities printed out, so that
**Update 28 March: Entries are now closed. Thanks to everyone who applied, you’ll be hearing from us very soon.** I am very pleased to announce the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for Educators! The Raspberry Picademy will be a free professional development experience for primary and secondary teachers, initially for those here in the UK.…
love can demonstrate experience in using technology in the classroom – does not have
From jazzy jumpers and a Sense HAT advent calendar to coding carols and Santa’s list, jingle all the way with our brand-new Christmas resources.
� Well, maybe it isn’t quite Christmas yet, but since the shops have been playing
For Christmas 1982 my brothers and I got our first games console (an Intellivision as it happens. Yes reader, we were that family) and it was truly, mind-blowingly amazing. In fact, it was like magic. And that was the problem–it was like magic. No one had a clue how even their Grandstand Entertainment System (aka…
I wonder how many they expect to have on hand come September?
To celebrate the launch of Sonic Pi 2 we held the inaugural Sonic Pi competition. We were looking for some of the best space-themed music, coded with Sonic Pi v2.0 on a Raspberry Pi by school children in the UK aged between 7-16 years – and we were not disappointed. After a month of judging, Dr Sam…
a month of judging, Dr Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, and the Foundation gang have
