Teach, Learn and Make with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. What’s more, it has the ability to interact with the outside world, and has been used in a wide array of digital maker projects, from music machines and parent detectors to weather stations and tweeting birdhouses with infra-red cameras. We want to see the Raspberry Pi being used by kids all over the world to learn to program and understand how computers work.
Google has been a supporter of the Raspberry Pi Foundation since 2013, when Google.org awarded a grant to provide 15,000 UK children enthusiastic about Computer Science a free Raspberry Pi along with a teaching and learning pack created by OCR, one of the partners in the project. This gave thousands of young people across the UK the opportunity to learn to code by increasing access to computers. In 2015 Google.org awarded a further grant to train up 750 teachers through Picademies, at Google’s Digital Garage sites in Leeds and Birmingham, weekend Raspberry Jam events, and training of Raspberry Pi community members to deliver twilight Picademy sessions, enabling us to considerably grow our support for teachers and their classes across the UK in 2015 and 2016.
Thanks to the continued generous support of Google, we have been able to provide more opportunities for educators across the UK to take part in free hands on Raspberry Pi training to support their delivery of computer science lessons in primary, secondary and further education. We are able to reach teachers in previously untapped locations in stunning venues and provide a truly unique professional development programme.