Thanks to Eben Upton for tweeting this one A group of volunteer Broadcom employees in Singapore are running sessions with teachers to introduce them to the Pi and then going into their classrooms to support workshops using our favourite credit…
Category: Education
Raspberry Pi Education Fund now accepting applications
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has put together an Education Fund: a £1 million pot of money to be distributed to projects that “encourage young people to learn about computing or illustrate how computing can be used to enhance education in STEM or the creative arts.”…
Virtual morse code with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched a new educational resource to to commemorate the declaration of World War I. With it, you’ll be able to build your own morse code machine and have a Raspberry Pi play the morse and interpret…
Teaching children to code in Lebanon with the Raspberry Pi
Eliane Metni, native of Beirut and based at the University of London’s Institute of Education leads the International Education Association, a Lebanese non-government organisation committed to global learning opportunities through ICT for Lebanon and throughout the Arab world. She has…
Talk from EuroPython with Raspberry Pi’s Ben Nuttall
Just spotted this on Twitter! Ben Nuttall of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education Team is currently in Berlin at EuroPython. He’s delivered a talk on the Foundation’s work in Education which can be seen below:
Computing in rural India with the Raspberry Pi
Dr Maximilian Bock and Aftab Jalia from the University of Cambridge recently ran two three-day workshops in rural India using the Raspberry Pi. The first workshop was for 15-19 year olds and the second was for a younger group of…
Solar-powered #RaspberryPi powered school fundraiser
Some folks in South Africa who run the United Twenty-13 non-profit organisation are attempted to build a solar-powered Raspberry Pi lab for schoolkids. To do this, they need to raise just over $10k. This sounds like a great project to get…
#RaspberryPi CPD for teachers – Picademy
Clive Beale of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has written a great round-up of what goes on at a Picademy, particularly with emphasis on the cohort that just finished. It’s really inspiring what these guys get up to over two days.…
Free prize draw for CamJam EduKits for the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox of TalkTech.info has purchased two CamJam EduKits and is giving them away in a prize draw. You can enter over on their site – don’t miss out!
Computing curriculum challenges covered by #RaspberryPi Certified Educator
Heard about the new Computing Curriculum and want to know more about the challenges? You could do worse than start with these two excellent posts from Picademy Graduate and RCE Sway Grantham. Read them here and here