The team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been hard at work giving their learning resources a revamp. A new template has been designed and all the artwork is in the process of being converted to a much more child-friendly…
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Raspberry Pi embraced by Australian school
Scots PGC College in Queensland, Australia has taken the Raspberry Pi into its curriculum and is now using it in class to teach kids how to program using online platform Codecademy. Read more here.
Using the Raspberry Pi with Mathematica in schools
Adriana O’Brien has posted up a series of lessons that she has used at Kenwood Elementary School in Illinois to teach programming using Mathematica to interact with the Pi’s GPIO. Definitely worth a look if you want to use Mathematica! Read it…
The Raspberry Pi is heading to the International Space Station
A partnership between the Raspberry Pi Foundation, UK Space, the European Space Agency and British astronaut Tim Peake is sending two Raspberry Pis into orbit! This exciting development, called “Astro Pi”, gets even more thrilling: school children will be given…
Hacking toolbox to teach electronics with the Raspberry Pi and Minecraft
“Piper” was developed by Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Alex Stokes, and Shree Bose and it uses a modified version of Minecraft running on Raspberry Pi to walk players through creating circuits and interacting with them. It’s currently under development and beta test with…
Spooky, interactive Raspberry Pi radio play at Bodiam Castle
The National Trust’s Bodiam Castle and creative agency Splash and Ripple have collaborated on a new interactive experience. The experience, which takes the form of an interactive murder mystery, uses devices called ‘Echo Horns’ carried by the visitors to tell…
Lothian schools in Raspberry Pi giveaway
Scottish pupils in Lothian aged between 12 and 15 may be able to get hold of a free Raspberry Pi on the 1st December thanks to Young Scot. All they need to do is go onto the Young Scot website from 12…
Raspberry Pi Foundation seeks help at Bett 2015
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted on their blog about The Bett Show. They are looking for help to populate their stall with experts and educators. Here’s who they are looking for: We are looking for members of our…
Winners announced for New Zealand Raspberry Pi competition
Orion Health, an eHealth company in New Zealand, has announced the winners of their Codework competition. Codeworx challenges secondary school students to create a solution, using a Raspberry Pi, to “a real world problem” or that “could be useful in…
Arkansas students receive Raspberry Pi computers
Sixth-grade students at St. Boniface School, Fort Smith, Arkansas have just received gifts of Raspberry Pi computers in an effort to get them learning about computer programming and electronics. The school’s education partner KMF Metal Fabrication gave the gifts to the…