San Diego schoolkids and Raspberry Pi

23rd of March 2013 by liz

I was sent some video yesterday from Chris Rosskopf, a teacher at High Tech Media Arts in San Diego, California. For one week a year, High Tech High Media Arts suspends its regular classes in order to offer a more focused, intensive week of study in an area outside the normal curriculum. For this particular project, a group of students chose to build and experiment with Raspberry Pi computers. Here’s what they thought of the Pi and what it might mean for them. We loved this; it’s great to watch kids catch on to what we’re trying to do at the Foundation.

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omenie on
March 23, 2013 at 10:52 am said:

In my new role as STEM Ambassador I’m so looking forward to engaging in exactly this kind of activity with local schools – an arc of conecpt, simple PCB design, software, PCB return from manufacture, a team hand build, turn it on and the joy of stuff working. Or the misery of failure. Failure is critically important for the success to feel even sweeter.

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MuddyDogs on
March 23, 2013 at 11:09 am said:

“From failure we learn, from success not so much”
(Meet The Robinsons, 2007)

I learnt far more from programs that didn’t work, than from ones that did. Like persistence, stubbornness, bloody mindedness, logic, the value of attention to detail and, occasionally, a computer language. 30 years later and I still get exactly the same buzz when it finally works.

Speaking of which, just done a course assignment to calculate Pi using recursion in Erlang on a Pi

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- omenie on
  March 23, 2013 at 11:14 am said:
  
  I (re)discovered recenty that attention to detail is somewhat more important for hardware than software … like developing software in the days of punch cards and rota access to the computer, 2 week turnarounds between debug sessions sharpens the mind in the ‘immediately pre tape out’ phase! Fortunately my 2 unholy cock-up sets of PCBs only cost a grand total of £19.
  
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Jim Manley on
March 23, 2013 at 2:21 pm said:

“Success always has a thousand parents. Failure is always an orphan.” — an olde saw

“Failure is not only an option, it’s a requirement.” — some olde buzzard engineer

“I won’t hire anyone who has never failed. That also means they’ve never tried.” — all of my bosses

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Jim Manley on
March 23, 2013 at 2:33 pm said:

I loved the comment by the redheaded girl (I guess Charlie Brown is in that class, too ), “A lot of people don’t know how computers work. I don’t want to be part of that demographic.” It’s refreshing to hear kids who know what words like “demographic” and “functionality” mean – around here, you’re lucky if they know what “graph” and “function” mean.

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- Richard Collins on
  March 23, 2013 at 4:34 pm said:
  
  Yes what she said was spot on, really impressed me.
  
  I saw one of the children with the classic ‘shaking leg’ that comes with intense concentration. At work they know I’m doing something cool when my leg starts to shake. LoL
  
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