Spencer Organ and Jack Wearden have relaunched the Birmingham Raspberry Jam at KESH Academy. With 17 Raspberry Pis, they welcomed 45 attendees and had a whale of a time. Some more info and more pics are available on Spencer’s UK Tech Reviews…
Category: Education
CBBC Newsround looks at Sonic Pi on the Raspberry Pi
Jenny from CBBC’s Newsround has been talking to Sam Aaron and some of the kids at a Sonic Pi Live & Coding event. You can watch the piece on the CBBC website.
Hosting company runs Raspberry Pi workshops
Hosting company UKFast recently ran workshops for The Dean Trust Ashton-On-Mersey School in which the kids learned home automation concepts and used Minecraft Pi Edition to learn programming. You can hear a bit more about it from the people involved below:
Minecraft Pi Edition worksheet
Martin O’Hanlon has generously shared the Minecraft: Pi Edition worksheet that he uses during Jams, at schools and at other events. You can download the worksheet from his blog. His book (co-written with David Whale) which goes further into Minecaft, is…
Beat the Buzzer with the Raspberry Pi
Dave Patterson and his primary school class have constructed a beat-the-buzzer game for their local school Christmas fair. It uses an expansion board from ModMyPi to protect the Pi from static electricity and Dave has programmed the whole thing in Python,…
The Raspberry Pi – bringing programming back
Stuart Leithes from ITV News has done a lovely report in which he interviews Gordon Hollingworth of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Jason from Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History about bringing programming back into education and how this is being…
Raspberry Pi Foundation weather station project enters field-test phase
According to the latest Education newsletter, a weather station project run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and funded by Oracle, is entering it’s prototype testing phase. The weather station is primarily a HAT add-on board with a few peripherals developed by Dave Honess. A…
Raspberry Pi Challenge at University of York
At the Department of Computer Science in the University of York, all new undergraduates are given a Raspberry Pi and challenged to do something with it within a month. Here’s a video that explains the idea – it features the Foundation’s…
South African computer lab powered by Raspberry Pis goes live
Back in July, the Raspberry Pi Foundation covered a crowdfunding project to create a solar-powered computer lab in South Africa. The crowdfunding was a success and the lab is now up-and-running. At the heart of the lab is a classroom set…
Successful training for teachers at Raspberry Pi Picademy
Spencer Organ, better known on Twitter by his handle @Mruktechreviews, has posted up about his experience at Picademy this week. He describes everything about his time at Pi Towers, including the activities the teachers got up to, the training sessions, the…