We are a charity that enables young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Hardware news:
@Raspberry_Pi
10K FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY 🎉🎈🎁
To celebrate 10K followers on Twitter, we're giving away 3x Raspberry Pi Foundation tote bags containing Raspberry Pi branded goodies 😍 Winners will be randomly selected on Friday, 19 May 2023.
To enter: Follow us, like & RT this tweet.
Good luck!
Amazing news! Raspberry Pi &
@Lego_Education
have come together to bring you the Raspberry Pi Build HAT. Your learners can now easily integrate LEGO Technic motors & sensors with Raspberry Pi computers! 🙌
Learn more:
#BuildHAT
#STEMEd
#MakerEd
Only 2 more days to take part in this giveaway ✨
If we're unable to contact you via DM or do not hear back from you after 48 hours, we will select another winner.
The giveaway will be closed once the addresses for all three packages have been verified. Good luck!
10K FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY 🎉🎈🎁
To celebrate 10K followers on Twitter, we're giving away 3x Raspberry Pi Foundation tote bags containing Raspberry Pi branded goodies 😍 Winners will be randomly selected on Friday, 19 May 2023.
To enter: Follow us, like & RT this tweet.
Good luck!
We have DM'd 3 people for this giveaway.
If we do not hear back within 48 hours we will contact new winners next week. Please check your DMs 🙏
Once we have 3 confirmed winners, we will close the giveaway. Thanks to everyone that has taken part.
10K FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY 🎉🎈🎁
To celebrate 10K followers on Twitter, we're giving away 3x Raspberry Pi Foundation tote bags containing Raspberry Pi branded goodies 😍 Winners will be randomly selected on Friday, 19 May 2023.
To enter: Follow us, like & RT this tweet.
Good luck!
You can now test our new online text-based Code Editor, which we're building to help young people aged 7 and up learn to code 💻
Learn more, test the Editor, and give us your feedback:
#CodingForKids
#STEM
#Computing
#Python
Young people from ESA member states and selected countries can send their code to space for FREE! 🚀
Take part in the European
#AstroPi
challenge today, all instructions are provided, ideal for new and keen coders.
Find out more:
#STEMEd
A huge congratulations to
@DigiMrMacLeod
,
@TemidayoYuusuf
, and
@AsaiaPalacios
, winners of our 10K giveaway 🎉
Thank you to everyone who participated, we'll be doing more giveaways in the future so keep an eye out.
Find out more about our mission: 🫶
10K FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY 🎉🎈🎁
To celebrate 10K followers on Twitter, we're giving away 3x Raspberry Pi Foundation tote bags containing Raspberry Pi branded goodies 😍 Winners will be randomly selected on Friday, 19 May 2023.
To enter: Follow us, like & RT this tweet.
Good luck!
We're excited to share that our Code Editor has been updated to include:
1. Support for our web page projects (HTML/CSS) 💪
2. An improved experience for those using mobile or tablet 📱
Our Code Editor is free to access. Read more:
#Computing
#Education
1/4 We have lift off! 🚀
At around 10:06am GMT, two
@Raspberry_Pi
computers were blasted off to the International Space Station!
Find out more:
#AstroPi
#STEMEd
Ada Computer Science launches TODAY! 🎉
🖥️ A new computer science learning platform
🌎 For teachers and students around the world
⌛ Time-saving resources for classwork and revision
Find out more 👉
#CSEd
#Computing
#Education
#AdaLovelace
Happy
#AdaLovelaceDay
!
Today, we celebrate Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computer science.
Inspired by her brilliance, we are committed to offering free, high-quality computer science education for all.
Learn more:
#CSEd
#STEMEd
Today we’re releasing an exciting new path of free projects for young people who want to create 3D worlds, stories, and games, brought to you in partnership with
@unity
.
Find out more & explore the path:
#Unity3d
#STEMEd
#STEMEducationForKids
Our Raspberry Pi Pico learning path is here! This free resource help kids develop coding and electronic skills 💡🎵
Find out what the path will help your kids create:
#LearnToCode
#STEMEd
#RaspberryPiPico
Hello World is a must-have for educators teaching
#Computing
or
#ComputerScience
📚
Subscribe now & receive the next issue as a PDF straight to your inbox:
UK educators can also sign up to receive free physical copies directly to their door or school 📮
Happy
#WorldEmojiDay
📢🗺️😊
Reply with an emoji over the next few hours and we'll suggest a project, course, or article from our blog or Hello World to read 👇
The European
#AstroPi
Challenge is a great opportunity for young people to send their programs to space.
With
#MissionZero
, young people up to the age of 19 from ESA member states and selected countries can take part this year.
#STEMEd
Find out more:
We've put together a new how-to guide for
#3DPrinting
and assembling your own
@Astro_Pi
unit replica, based on the upgraded units we sent to the International Space Station in December 🤩
Learn more:
#AstroPi
#3DPrint
#MakerEd
We’ve just announced Experience AI, a new collaboration with a leading AI company,
@DeepMind
, to inspire the next generation of AI leaders and to help young people understand how AI works and how it is changing the world.
Learn more:
#AILiteracy
#STEM
Young people don’t have to wait to be astronauts to be part of a space mission. 🧑🚀
They can take part in
#AstroPi
#MissionZero
, our free beginners’ coding activity that lets them send a message into space to the astronauts on the
@Space_Station
🚀
#STEMEd
In issue 17 of Hello World magazine, teachers share top tips for managing behaviour in the computing classroom, benefits and uses of Discord as a teaching and learning platform, and more.
Download for free:
#MentaHealthAwarenessWeek
#Comptuing
#Education
Love this! 🤩 The impact of having a good mentor/teacher/volunteer is truly invaluable, you never know what influence you will have on a young person's life. A lovely gift & frame
@BenberryPi
.
Interested in starting a Code Club? Details can be found here:
Young people from eligible countries can have their code run in space with
#MissionZero
👨🚀
Write a simple program to display an image on the
#AstroPi
computers on board the ISS:
Follow our step-by-step guide; no prior coding experience necessary
#STEMEd
To help your learners build amazing creations with Raspberry Pi, the new
#BuildHAT
& LEGO Technic components from the SPIKE Portfolio, we've written five free project guides for everything from a data plotter to an ML robot face!
Discover the projects:
To celebrate
#RaspberryPi10
, we’ve partnered with
@tnmoc
to open a new temporary exhibit dedicated to telling the story of the
@Raspberry_Pi
computer and
@RaspberryPi_org
.
Join us for the grand opening, Saturday 5 March 2022 at 11:15am GMT 🤩
What are your plans this weekend?
Join us to celebrate 10 years of Raspberry Pi at The National Museum of Computing
@tnmoc
in Bletchley Park.
Get tickets to join us for the in-person event or sign up and join virtually for free!
Learn more:
Happy
#AdaLovelaceDay
! Today we celebrate all women and girls in STEM past, present, & future.
Ada was a British mathematician & is considered to be the first computer programmer, paving the way for women💪👩🖥️
#WomenInSTEM
#GirlsInSTEM
Who is a female STEM role model for you?
“I can’t create anything I want in real life, but I can create anything I want on a computer.”
CoderDojo helped Cian prepare for a career in tech. We're proud to be part of his journey:
❤️ Like & share, help inspire others
#MyCodingStory
#BeInspired
❤️
Hello World magazine is the education magazine about computing and digital making. Today, we're introducing the Hello World monthly newsletter.
Learn more about it and sign up:
#CSEd
#MakerEd
#STEMEd
#Computing
#Education
Ten online courses are now open on the
@edXOnline
platform!
Join us for a summer of learning 🌞
- No previous experience needed
- Learn at your own pace
- Work towards a certificate or CPD
Check out our full range:
☀️
#CPD
#CPE
#CSEd
299 teams of young people have achieved flight status in
#MissionSpaceLab
, part of the European
#AstroPi
Challenge 🤩
That's a huge accomplishment & means their experiments will run on board the ISS. Find out what they're investigating:
@Astro_Pi
#STEMEd
FIVE YEARS of Hello World magazine, our free publication for computing educators! Here's Alan O'Donohoe
@teknoteacher
with his top tips on how you can make the most of Hello World for your
#CSEd
&
#computing
classroom practice and career:
#ExperienceAI
is a new educational programme we have developed in partnership with
@DeepMind
. It offers cutting-edge secondary school resources on AI & machine learning for teachers and their students.
🔗
#AIEducation
#AILiteracy
As we come to the end of 2022, we want to thank everyone who has helped support our mission. Whether you’re sharing our content, volunteering at our Clubs, or making a donation 🙏
And there’s still time! Learn how your donation makes a difference:
Welcome! Here you'll discover our free educational initiatives:
🎨 Resources to help young people learn to code & create with digital tech
🤖 Info on
@CodeClub
@CoderDojo
@coolestprojects
@astro_pi
🧑🏫 Training & support for educators
🔍 Leading research into computing education
Hello World is a free computing and digital making magazine for educators.
If you're based in the UK, you can subscribe to receive print issues of future publications directly to your door. Our next issue is themed around AI and education.
Subscribe now:
Introduce your kids to
#Robotics
🤖
Understanding robotics is not just for scientists and engineers. Learning skills in this field will help empower your kids to be creators of our digital world instead of just consumers.
#STEMEd
#MakerEd
#CodingForKids
Meet Selin: she’s 16 years old and from Turkey.
Selin’s childhood pet 🐶 inspired her to build tech projects that aim to help others live well. We’re proud to be part of her journey.
Watch her full story:
#MyCodingStory
#BeInspired
@Selinoid2
@OriginCockroach
Yes, winners will be selected at random but will be vetted once selected to make sure 1) we can send the package, 2) we can contact the winner and they can provide us with a relevant address and 3) they're actual followers genuinely interested in the work we do.
Our Gender Balance in Computing research programme has been the largest effort to date to explore ways to encourage more girls and young women to engage with
#Computing
and
#CSEd
in school.
@suesentance
tells you what we've found out:
Our new ‘Introduction to Python’ coding path for kids lets learners create digital visuals and become independent coders as they gain skills.
They'll learn about variables, functions, loops, & more.
Read more:
#LearnToCode
#Python
#STEMEd
Congratulations to Sue Sentance, our former Chief Learning Officer and now Director of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre at
@CambridgeCL
, on her appointment as the New Chair of
@BCS
Schools and Colleges Committee 🎉
Read more:
"Raspberry Pi is not just a device or product [...] it's a large & inclusive community"
Adarsh is an inspiring young tech creator from San Jose, USA. He shares how learning computer science can help solve real-world problems:
#MyCodingStory
#BeInspired
Jay took part in
#CoolestProjects
and channelled his creativity into making something to exhibit there.
He brought along a security alarm he had built, and he left Coolest Projects having made lots of new friends who were also young tech creators.
👉
Today we announce the
#ExperienceAI
Challenge in partnership with
@GoogleDeepMind
.
How do you use AI to identify a cheetah from a chimpanzee?
Encourage your young learners to take part and find out!
Learn more:
#AI
#MachineLearning
Choose from our seven free online courses about
#Python
programming to match your interests and needs.
All of our courses have lots of activities, tips, and ideas to help you teach programming in your classroom 🧑🏫
#TeachComputing
#EduTwitter
#TechEd
Take part in an important project!
UK schools are invited to participate in a project studying young people’s attitudes to learning to code. Join our project and get some cool swag, plus an invite to an online digital making session.
Find out more:
Now open: 20 of our computing courses on
@edXOnline
!
Learn some shiny new skills ✨
- No previous experience needed
- Work at your own pace
- Earn a certificate for your CPD
Explore the courses:
#CPD
#CPE
#CSEd
@i_am_r0y
We are a UK-based charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.
Learn more about the work we do:
The European
@Astro_Pi
Challenge is a great way to get young people excited about coding and space. 🚀
Young people up to age 19 from ESA member states and selected countries can take part in
#MissionZero
.
Find out more:
#AstroPi
#STEMEd
Let’s celebrate all the inspiring tech creators like Laura this International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
We’re so proud to be part of her journey and to share her story with the world 🙌
👉
#IDWGIS
#GirlsInScience
#MyCodingStory
#BeInspired
The Computing Curriculum is our complete bank of free teaching resources. It offers you everything you need to teach computing lessons to all school-aged learners.
Learn more:
#CSEd
#Computing
#Education
Our team is in Kenya this weekend working with our partners
@Team4Tech
and
@KenyaConnect
. In the next few months, we’ll update you on the new work we are doing there — for now, we hope you enjoy these pics as much as we do 🙌🇰🇪💻
Stanley is taking his first day in the office very seriously. He is being a very good boy and posing for important pictures including a lovely pic showcasing our collection of
@HelloWorld_Edu
magazines 🥰
#RPFHQ
#DogsInTheOffice
#DogsAtWork
For young people, learning to code in Python is popular and accessible. Our second new Python learning path shows young coders how to move beyond the basics.
Find out how your kids can learn at home with this free resource:
#LearnToCode
#STEMEd
#Python
Meet Jay from Preston, who's been learning to code since he was 7. He loves creating robotics projects with recycled materials, and passing his skills on to others in his community. Amazing, right?
Watch Jay's full story 🎉
#MyCodingStory
#BeInspired
We believe every young person should have the chance to learn to make & build using technology. Help us provide opportunities for them this
#GivingTuesday
.
Our partners
@EPAMSYSTEMS
@canakit
&
@remote_it
will match donations up to $15,000!
Donate now:
Are you a resident of Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland and taking part in the Coolest Projects online showcase?
You can join our in-person event 🎉
Find out more:
Did you know that your kids can create their own music app using micro:bit? 🎶
In this activity, they'll learn how to make a music player that lets them choose different tunes to suit their mood.
Get started:
#LearnToCode
#CodingForKids
#Microbit
To celebrate the end of
#ScratchWeek
create a 'Party piñata' with this project 🎉
Young learners will create a swinging piñata that releases treats when it is hit, and eventually breaks to reveal a birthday message.
👉
#LearnToCode
#GetKidsCoding
We'd like to extend a huge thank you to our friends
@pimoroni
for donating £1 from every Captain Resetti sold.
Thanks to them and their customers, we've received over £3000 to help put the power of computing and digital making into the hands of young learners!
NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Captain Resetti - This is something we wanted to do, mainly for the lulz. Seamlessly add a very sought after reset button to your Pico. £1 from every purchase goes to the very lovely
@Raspberry_Pi
Foundation! 💚
Introduce your students to
#ComputingSystems
🖥️
In our ‘Systems architecture’ module, learners will explore common system architectures, look at the internal components of a computer system, and more.
Find out more:
#CSEd
#GCSECS
#TechEd
📖 Ada Computer Science Stories 📖
Bethany Cawthorne's love for computing came from using Raspberry Pis at her school computing club. 🎉
She talked to us about studying Computer Games Technology at
@MyBCU
, organising hackathons, and landing a new job!
We're LIVE at
#ClubsCon23
today 📸
We'll be welcoming even more Code Club & CoderDojo volunteers from all over the world. We have an exciting schedule of workshops, talks, discussions, and more.
Unable to attend? Join us online:
#STEM
#Computing
#Coding
On
#PiDay
, we want to thank everyone who supports our mission 🫶
In 2023, we enabled over 1.2 million learners to get creative with tech through coding clubs, challenges, and resources.
Thank you for being part of an amazing global community promoting computing education 🙌
Save the date 📆
Join our upcoming webinar on 29 November. In this session, our team will be joined by AI experts from Google DeepMind to discuss careers in AI.
Watch the webinar here:
#AILiteracy
#AIEducation
#CareersInAI
Moonhack is a record-breaking Code Club event that is bringing coding to young learners globally. Take part online with your students this year — it's free and all resources are provided.
Learn more:
#STEMEd
#Moonhack
#GetKidsCoding
@CodeClubAus
Teachers, download your free copy of Hello World magazine today, a free resource made by teachers for teachers.
The latest issue is about health and well-being, it's available for everyone (even non-teachers 🥰)!
Get your free copy now 👇
As if the last few weeks haven't been exciting enough, issue 17 of Hello World magazine is OUT NOW!
The theme is health and well-being, a topic relevant to all teachers. Share with friends & colleagues
#CSEd
#CSForAll
#Wellbeing
Download for free:
Record numbers of young people took part in the European Astro Pi Challenge this year. They wrote code that ran in space on board the ISS — and helped choose the names of the new
@astro_pi
computers!We reveal the names in today’s blog:
@ESA__Education
Introduce your kids to
#Python
!
In this path for beginners, young people will learn how to use variables, loops, and functions to create visual and interactive artwork, games, and more.
Get started now:
#LearnToCode
#CodingForKids
#LearnPython
Engage your kids in
#Cybersecurity
learning this month!
In our "Secret agent chat" project, they will learn how to create and use an encryption technique in
#Python
to send top secret messages.
Get started:
#LearnToCode
#GetKidsCoding
Our new, free, on-demand online course is a fun, creative, and colourful introduction to coding for curious grown-ups, and for all educators who want to get a taste of
@scratch
programming.
Find out more & sign up:
#LearnToCode
#STEMEd
Teachers, we would love to get your views on tools you use with your learners for text-based programming in school. Please fill in this short survey:
Your responses will help us further develop our free Code Editor:
#CSEd
Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
✨
Today, we want to thank all the incredible and inspiring women in STEM and education that are helping
#BreakTheBias
to make the world a better place.
"We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back" — Malala Yousafzai |
#IWD
#IWD2022