Education, Events

Picademy Day One write-up – #RaspberryPi teacher CPD at Pi Towers!

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Teacher Sway Grantham was one of the lucky ones who got a place on Picademy – a brand new 2-day course for teachers run by the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Foundation has recently moved into a spacious new office that gives them a classroom and multiple working spaces, perfect for this kind of event. So far, amongst several other things, the 24 teachers have programmed with Python and controlled a camera module, and done some training with Minecraft. You can read a full write-up of Day One here. You can follow the live tweeting of Picademy here or see it below.


Events, Raspberry Jams

Potton Pi & Pints – nice write-up

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On Saturday, Tim and I hosted a Raspberry Jam Doughnut in Potton – Potton Pi & Pints – at our local, The Rising Sun. It was Tim’s idea and it turned out to be very successful. We had between 30-40 people throughout the day in the upstairs room of the pub. We’d brought along 6 full Pi Workstations from the CamJam stock and set them up on tables along the wall, then just waited for people to arrive. We’d not organised any talks but we’d encouraged people to bring their stuff with them to have a hack or show off. We had an assortment of projects and we even had some kids turn up to have a go at Minecraft! Here’s a write-up and photographs from Richard Morris who brought his camera along to record what we hope will be a fairly regular excuse to get together with fellow Pi enthusiasts.

Events, Raspberry Jams

Cambridge Raspberry Jam – booking now open

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Tickets for the Cambridge Raspberry Jam (CamJam) on 10th May are now available. You can get your tickets by visiting this page on the CamJam website.

We’re mixing it up for this Jam and trying something a bit different.

In the main Lecture Theatre, we will be running Focus on Education – a series of presentations, talks and demos specifically aimed at educators, but which may well appeal to parents and enthusiasts as well. See here for the Focus on Education timetable.

Up on the mezzanine level we’ll be having our usual show-and-tell.

In the Foyer, we’ll be having appearances from some of our vendors.

In the Foyer and Meeting Room, we are running two streams of workshops. If you’d like to attend these, you must book your place(s), so please read on.

Outside in the Quad we will be holding an ongoing soldering workshop run by experts.

If you’ve never been to the CamJam before then why not come along this time and do stuff with Pis!

We’re the biggest regular Jam in the country (possibly the world)!

Education, Events

Introductory course to the #RaspberryPi in South Wales – several dates

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The University of South Wales is running a FULLY FUNDED introductory course to Raspberry Pi on the following dates:

Tuesday 24th June 2014 (full day)
Tuesday 1st July 2014 (full day)
Friday 4th July 2014 (full day)

@ Crownford House Merthyr Tydfil

The brand new introductory course will give you an insight into the capabilities of Raspberry Pi, as well as limitations. You will start to develop the skills needed to programme a Pi, learning about micto memory syste,s (inclusing SD cards), Linux, prorgramming, as well as creating a Pi with an on-board operating system with the ability to interface with un-manned aerial vehicles (eg Drones)

Dont miss the opportunity to join this hands-on, innovative new course – the first of its kind in Wales.

For further information, or to register your interest call
Professional Academy on 01443 482544 or email vicki.davies@southwales.ac.uk