At the BETT education conference in London last week, the Raspberry Pi Foundation officially launched the previously announced Astro Pi competition. Astro Pi will involve the launch of two Raspberry Pis into space with astronaut Tim Peake. Tim will take the…
Category: Outreach
Botswana environmental expedition uses the Raspberry Pi and open source resources
A team of National Geographic Explorers recently embarked on an expedition to the Okavango Delta in Botswana to gather environmental data using open hardware and software and the Raspberry Pi. Called the Okavango Wilderness Project, the expedition will create a…
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…
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…
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: