A quick blip of a blog to say Happy Scratch Day! We’re huge fans of Scratch here at the Foundation. It was designed to teach young people how to program but it’s a great learning tool at any age: you can build your first program in minutes and pick up fundamental concepts very quickly. Whilst…
you’ve never tried Scratch before then today is the day to boot up your Pi and have
In this lesson, learners will create movement for more than one sprite. In doing this, they will design and implement their code, and then will create code to replicate a given outcome. Finally, they will experiment with new motion blocks.
Learning objectives To identify that commands have an outcome I can identify that
T minus ten days to the deadline of our latest Astro Pi competition! Submit your Sonic Pi tunes and MP3 player code by 12 noon on Thursday 31 March.
You have until 12 noon on Thursday 31st March to submit your Sonic Pi tunes and MP3
Coding music on a Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi has quickly become a great way to learn programming concepts and to pump out some thumping beats. Last year I worked with Dr Sam Aaron, live coder and academic at the University of Cambridge, to teach KS3 pupils text-based programming on Raspberry Pis as part of their…
collaboration, Sam has been busy working on Sonic Pi version 2.0 and together we have
We get a lot of emails saying: “Why aren’t you working on any schools stuff? We want to see materials!” The answer, up until now, has always been: “We’re working on it!” Here’s a sneak preview of what we’ve been doing. Working with OCR and Cambridge University Press, we’ve been producing a MOOC (Massive Open…
You can have a look at what it’ll look like, and see some of the first videos and
In February Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, announced and opened entries for the new Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists mentorship programme. We selected final participants from the applicants at the beginning of this month – we’ve got a wonderful group of young people. Last weekend we held the induction weekend here at Pi Towers in Cambridge, which involved Pecha…
trip to Pimoroni‘s workshop for a hack weekend full of laser cutter fun, and we have
Hey everyone! After much preparation we are super happy to announce an exciting new project from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged 16 – 21 years old. If your passion is the creative arts, and you’re wondering how you can use technology…
We will also have some amazing partners helping us out with mentoring and site visits
Our top tips for how to talk to young children about AI. Use this simple advice to help your kids understand AI tools and their limits.
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A summary of the findings of our Gender Balance in Computing research programme, which we ran as seven school-based studies over three years.
gender balance in computing from the 1980s and 1990s, for example that boys may have
Learners will explore how data loggers work. They will record data at set moments in time and draw parallels with the data points that a data logger captures at regular intervals. Learners will use data loggers away from a computer, then they will connect the loggers to a computer and download the data.
can identify the intervals used to collect data I can talk about the data that I have
