Attend a Picademy@Google in Birmingham
This year we’ve seen an explosion of Raspberry Pi Certified Educators thanks to the number of free teacher training events called ‘Picademy’ that we’ve been able to facilitate. Aside from our own in-house training, there have been five regional Picademies, three of which have taken place in Google’s Digital Garage in Leeds. Thanks to the generosity of Google.org, we are able to offer even more continuing professional development opportunities to educators, this time in Birmingham!
Picademy will be awesome at the new Google Digital Garage Birmingham!
Picademy@Google is for classroom teachers of any subject at primary, secondary or post-16 level. The courses and workshops in Leeds are run by renowned community member Les Pounder, who gives much of his time to helping adults and children create weird and wonderful projects. You may have seen some of his Picademy work on Twitter recently.
Wilma and I were happy with our simple creations using Pi. Big thanks to lovely @biglesp for his support #picademy pic.twitter.com/a9n9F4Rff1
— Dr Yasemin Allsop MBE (@yallsop) July 14, 2015
Picademy@Google Birmingham will be every bit as good! Highly regarded community member, Minecraft wizard, and creator of stuff about code Martin O’Hanlon will be leading teachers across a diamond block path to Raspberry Pi enlightenment. Here he is doing his best Steve impression:
Martin was at the venue for the launch and said:
The opening of the Google Digital Garage at the Library of Birmingham was a great event attended by Eileen Naughton, MD of Google UK and Ireland, and Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
The venue is incredible and it’s really exciting to be able to use this amazing space to bring Picademy to Birmingham – opening up the opportunity to teachers across the West Midlands to get the benefit of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free CPD course.
All our training events in Birmingham will take place at the latest Google Digital Garage inside Birmingham Library, and are completely free to attend. If you are interested in take part and becoming a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, please complete this form. The following dates are available:
- 27th – 28th August
- 1st – 2nd October
- 2nd – 3rd November
- 7th – 8th December
18 comments
Steve Foster
Great news about a second digital garage opening up. Thank you. Every day (literally) I look for the next PiCademy date, as I live near to Cambridge. Any idea when you will be advertising the next course?
Carrie Anne Philbin — post author
We will be concentrating our efforts on Leeds and Birmingham between now and the end of the year. If you want to attend a Picademy, then I’d apply for one of those. Cambridge to Birmingham is pretty easy by train!
Stewart Watkiss
Very exciting Google taking space in the iconic new library in Birmingham and I think it’s great Picademy coming to the West Midlands.
kosta
I would like to take the training in Birmingham. I am not a teacher but an engineer wishing to learn this device. Can I sign up?
Kosta
Steve Foster
Hi Kosta. I know there is a ‘Makerspace’ in Coventry which has open evenings for people who want to learn about the Pi (as well as 3D printing, laser cutting, etc if you are interested) Have alook at their website for dates/times. http://www.coventrymakerspace.com
RileyR
Like Kosta I am a retired engineer, not a teacher, that also wishes to learn about this device. Any chances of the opportunity?
Raspberry Pi Staff Helen Lynn
Picademy is designed specifically to help teachers use Raspberry Pi in the classroom, but Jams are a great way for others to find out about Raspberry Pi and what you can do with it. They feature show-and-tells and often workshops, and the chance to speak one-to-one with people who have lots of experience of using the device. See also Steve Foster’s recommendation of the Coventry Makerspace evenings, above.
mark chow Khoon keat
Dear sir,
Can I join the picademy where I am tutor from Malaysia?
Thanks
Regards
Mark chow
jim
This is Birmingham in the UK?
There’s a Birmingham near me, but I live in Michigan in the US.
Raspberry Pi Staff Helen Lynn
It’s Birmingham, UK – but Picademy is coming to the USA, albeit not quite so soon, and we’re still to settle on all the venues: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/announcing-picademy-usa/
pierre gola
Very amazed and very interested. I am 63 years old. I want to have a trainnig. Is it possible ?
Hearing from you.
Colin
I completed an application last week. Should I have received a submission confirmation?
Raspberry Pi Staff Liz Upton
No, but you’ll have finished on a page confirming that your submission went through.
Colin
Ok. Thank you!
Ben Stradling
When are we likely to hear if we have place on the August date?
Thank you!
Loren Hosein
I’d also really like the chance to do the Picademy, and like several other people who’ve replied – I’m not eligible because I’m not a teacher! It would be really great if you could open it up to everybody. I had a look at the Coventry site but I think your one would be definitely be much more suitable for me. Please, please, be inclusive and allow registrations from non-teachers!
Jon Wood
Signed up for the November one. When do we hear if we’ve been accepted?
caroline99uk2
Hi, I applied for the Picademy in September (I think I requested a December date) Do you know when I will know if I have been accepted?
Many thanks
Caroline