Skycademy is a new initiative from the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will teach educators and children’s group leaders how to launch high altitude balloons with Raspberry Pis attached. Next week, a series of balloons will be launched by the 24…
Category: Education
Astro Pi winning team’s teacher tells all about their entry
Teacher Dan Aldred from Thirsk School has been telling Linux User and Developer all about his year 7 club’s winning entry into the Astro Pi competition. He covers everything from how the club was set-up, how they came up with their idea of tracking the…
Lots of education-related videos from EuroPython over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation website
Recently, some of the Foundation’s education team headed over to Bilbao, Spain for the EuroPython conference. Many of the talks were recorded and the Foundation have blogged about the ones that they presented. They are: Carrie Anne Philbin – Education: A Python solution…
Coding Evening special event – Thursday 15th October
Created by teacher Cat Lamin, Coding Evenings are a great way to get teachers in touch with other teachers and technology experts. In Cat’s own words: Coding Evenings are an opportunity for teachers, Raspberry Pi enthusiasts and Code Club/Coder Dojo volunteers…
Cambridge-based computing museum expands summer programme
Due to demand, The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge has announced an expansion of their summer programme with additional workshops and events taking place in the next month or so. A few of these are Raspberry Pi-related so I…
Raspberry Pi fun at Illinois summer camp
In June, 29 students took part in IT camp, part of Illinois State’s Illinois Summer Research Academy (ISRA). Each student received a Raspberry Pi 2 and over the week learned how to program in Python, interact with the real world by interfacing with…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – 12th September – Tickets now on sale
Tickets for the next Cambridge Raspberry Jam, which will be held on 12th September at the Institute of Astronomy, are now on sale. Just press the big blue “Book tickets” button on the CamJam homepage to be taken to Eventbrite! Following feedback…
Picademy comes to Birmingham
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free CPD for educators is coming to Birmingham. The sessions, which will be led by Martin O’Hanlon, will be held at the latest Google Digital Garage which is located inside Birmingham Library. The following dates are available: 27th…
2048 game port for the Raspberry Pi written in Assembly
Four students from Imperial College London have ported the game 2048 across to the Pi using Assembly language. Franklin Schrans, Jacek Burys, Saurav Mitra, Srikrishna Subrahmanyam teamed up for their first year final ARM project, coded the game and then added a…
Second Peterborough Coding Evening – 22nd September
Following on from the success of the first Coding Evening at the beginning of this month, Hannah Mills is organising another one on Tuesday 22nd September at The Brewery Tap in Peterborough town centre. Coding Evenings are a great opportunity for teachers…