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The 2014 Raspberry Jamboree is coming up at the end of February. Last year was fantastic and this year’s is looking bigger and better. Carrie Anne, Dave, Ben and I will see you there! Organiser Alan O’Donohoe tells us more: — I’m a Computing teacher in and I’m always on the look out for resources and…
If you didn’t manage to get there, you may have seen the videos we shared afterwards
This December, British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake will be taking two specially augmented Raspberry Pis called Astro Pis to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of his six-month mission. These Astro Pis will be running experimental Python programs written by school-age students; the results will be downloaded back to Earth and made available online…
If the worst should happen, we have the contingency plan of promoting two of the
Eben Upton on this year’s global showcase and the amazingly creative projects that over 1000 young makers from 15 countries presented.
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I’m sure a few of you are wondering why we’re not screaming about this from the rooftops, right? Okay: stand back, here we go. To quote the Portal space core: “SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!” Back in March 2014 Eben sent a casual email around the office asking if anyone wanted to join him at a meeting between the…
Initially the list of sensors we wanted to have on it was enormous, and this had
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?
Dr Ron Eglash’s seminar explored how to think about diversity in computing as being dependent on the diversity of underpinning cultural ideas.
students and people from indigenous cultures, opening up computing to people who have
If you visited us at the Bett Show in January, or came to Picademy in October or February half term, then you will recognise James Robinson as one of our education team volunteers. He is a well-established member of the Computing At School community, as both a CAS Master Teacher and CAS Hub Leader for Cambridge. He…
He is a hugely successful and experienced teacher whose opinion I have sought on
The Raspberry Pi Foundation launches a new partnership with the Scout Association that will help tens of thousands of young people learn crucial digital skills for life.
for many of my colleagues at the Raspberry Pi Foundation who in different ways have
Researchers on our team share why increasing access to digital technologies is only one aspect of addressing the digital divide.
internet is not yet equal: there is still a ‘digital divide’, i.e. some people do not have
