FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…
Category: Outreach
Raspberry Pi Certified Educator running Summer Tech Dojo in Rhyl, Wales
Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Allen Heard is running a three-day “Tech Dojo” in Rhyl, North-East Wales from Monday 27th-Wednesday 29th July. Some of the activities on offer are as follows: Use a Pi to create artificial intelligence Build an intruder alarm…
Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists introduced
Creative Technologists is a 12-month long mentoring programme for 16-21 year olds. You can read more about the programme here. Thanks to Ben Nuttall, who has just published a post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, we now know much more about…
Raspberry Pi Foundation welcomes new CEO
A couple of months ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation were advertising for a new CEO to replace Lance Howarth. Well, they have now found him in the shape of Philip Colligan. Philip, who comes from Nesta will start in July and oversee…
PA Consulting school Raspberry Pi competition winners announced
Electronics Weekly attended the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition finals at the Science Museum. They’ve done a great blog post about the entrants and their projects here. The winners of the competition have now been announced and you can read…
Tanzania secondary school gets the power of Raspberry Pi
Masekelo secondary school in Tanzania doesn’t have many resources. The children have to collect water for the school every day and there are often not enough desks and chairs to go around. The Tanzanian government has decreed that every school…
Raspberry Pi-powered Geeks Club in Nigeria
CcHub Nigeria will be launching a secondary school after-schools club known as “Geeks Club” on 11th March. 150 students selected from Lagos state will take part in the club which will use the Raspberry Pi to teach Scratch, HTML/CSS and Python.…
Indian state plans to distribute 10,000 Raspberry Pis a year
“The small sized Raspberry Pi will help in promoting basic computer science in the schools across Kerela,” says P H Kurian, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Department of Industries, Government of Kerala In an effort to kickstart the…
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Creative Technologists initiative
Rachel Rayns and Ben Nuttall are heading up a new initiative – Creative Technologists. Here’s what they have to say about it on the blog: The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…