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- Where do great research ideas come from in computer science education? We might think of research breakthroughs as a single moment of genius, but in reality impactful research is often the result of many years of iterative development. In November’s research seminar, we heard from Karl-Emil Kjær Bilstrup, a researcher at the University of Copenhagen,… … Continue reading →
- We’re pleased to share a new collection of Code Club projects designed to introduce creators to the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These projects bring the latest technology to your Code Club in fun and inspiring ways, making AI and ML engaging and accessible for young people. We’d like to… … Continue reading →
- In Hello World issue 18, available as a free PDF download, teacher Michael Jones shares how to use Teachable Machine with learners aged 13–14 in your classroom to investigate issues of accuracy and ethics in machine learning models. Machine learning: Accuracy and ethics The landscape for working with machine learning/AI/deep learning has grown considerably over… … Continue reading →
- How does teaching children and young people about machine learning (ML) differ from teaching them about other aspects of computing? Professor Matti Tedre and Dr Henriikka Vartiainen from the University of Eastern Finland shared some answers at our latest research seminar. Their presentation, titled ‘ML education for K-12: emerging trajectories’, had a profound impact on… … Continue reading →
- Join our free online course Introduction to Machine Learning and AI to discover the fundamentals of machine learning and learn to train your own machine learning models using free online tools. Although artificial intelligence (AI) was once the province of science fiction, these days you’re very likely to hear the term in relation to new… … Continue reading →
- A recent Forbes article reported that over the last four years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in many business sectors has grown by 270%. AI has a history dating back to Alan Turing’s work in the 1940s, and we can define AI as the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to… … Continue reading →
- This week’s live stream was all about learning the basics of machine learning, and we were so happy… … Continue reading →
- Yesterday’s live stream coding session was a blast with our BERRY special guest Carrie Ann Philbin, educator, Youtuber,… … Continue reading →
- Machine learning is everywhere. It’s used for image and voice recognition, predictions, and even those pesky adverts that always seem to know what you’re thinking about! If you’ve ever wanted to know more about machine learning, or if you want to help you learners get started with machine learning, then our new free projects are… … Continue reading →
- Last week, Andrew Csizmadia and I were honoured to attend UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week conference to present our free Experience AI resources and how they can help teachers demystify AI for their learners. The conference drew a worldwide audience in-person and online to hear about the work educators and policy makers are doing to support… … Continue reading →
- What do we talk about when we talk about artificial intelligence (AI)? It’s becoming a cliche to point out that, because the term “AI” is used to describe so many different things nowadays, it’s difficult to know straight away what anyone means when they say “AI”. However, it’s true that without a shared understanding of… … Continue reading →
- Since the release of the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller in 2021, we have seen people all over the world come up with creative Pico-based inventions. Now, thanks to our brand-new and free ‘Introduction to Raspberry Pi Pico’ learning path, young coders can easily join in and make their own cool Pico projects! This free learning… … Continue reading →
- At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we’ve been thinking about questions relating to artificial intelligence (AI) education and data science education for several months now, inviting experts to share their perspectives in a series of very well-attended seminars. At the same time, we’ve been running a programme of research trials to find out what interventions in… … Continue reading →
- “In the near future, perhaps sooner than we think, virtually everyone will need a basic understanding of the technologies that underpin machine learning and artificial intelligence.” — from the 2018 Informatics Europe & EUACM report about machine learning As the quote above highlights, AI and machine learning (ML) are increasingly affecting society and will continue… … Continue reading →
- This column is from The MagPi issue 54. You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve its charitable goals. When you… … Continue reading →
- Measuring student understanding in computing education is not an easy task. As AI literacy becomes an important pillar in computing education, defining and accurately measuring students’ understanding of concepts and their skills is an even greater challenge. In a recent seminar in our series on teaching about AI and data science, researcher Jesús Moreno-León (Universidad… … Continue reading →
- Are you a primary school teacher in England, Scotland or Wales interested in AI and data science and how students learn about AI and data in computing? The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre is starting an exciting new research project investigating how to teach about AI and data in the primary computing classroom, and… … Continue reading →
- At the end of last year, Professor Becky Francis published her long-awaited Curriculum and Assessment Review for England, accompanied by the UK government’s official response. Buried within that response — and not actually proposed in the Review itself — was a notable commitment: to “explore introducing a new Level 3 qualification* in data science and… … Continue reading →
- In Germany, as in many countries, AI topics are rapidly entering formal computer science education. Yet, this haste often risks us focusing on fleeting technological developments rather than fundamental concepts. As computer science educator Viktoriya Olari, from Free University of Berlin, discovered in her research, the fundamental role of data, which powers most modern AI… … Continue reading →
- Research indicates that teaching learners to use and create with data-driven technologies such as AI and machine learning (ML) requires an entirely different approach for solving problems compared to traditional programming activities. In this blog, we share the new data paradigms framework that we have developed through research and used to help improve our understanding… … Continue reading →
- At a time when many young people are using AI for personal and learning purposes, schools are trying to figure out what to teach about AI and how (find out more in this summer 2025 data about young people’s usage of AI in the UK). One aspect of this is how technical we should get… … Continue reading →
- Over the first weekend in November, members of the global Code Club community came together for two inspiring days of learning, creativity and connection. The annual event celebrates the people who make Code Clubs happen, allowing them to share ideas, explore new tools, and connect with others who help young people learn to code. Exploring… … Continue reading →
- Social media can have a powerful impact on the way we see and experience the world. What we see in our feeds is not random: it is determined by AI-driven systems that collect vast amounts of data, build user profiles, analyse engagement, and generate recommendations. But while young people are prolific users of social media,… … Continue reading →
- Current artificial intelligence (AI) methods, especially machine learning (ML), rely heavily on data. To complement our work on AI literacy, we have been investigating what data science teaching resources and education research are currently available. Our goal is to work out what data science concepts should be taught in a data science curriculum for schools.… … Continue reading →
- This blog is the third and final in our mini-series about the things we’ve learnt from adapting The Computing Curriculum resources, and from training teachers to use them in schools. In the first two blogs, we wrote about our experiences in Kenya and Odisha, India. Here, we focus on our work in Telangana, India. This… … Continue reading →
- New research by the Alan Turing Institute, published in June, shows that in the UK nearly one in four children aged 8 to 12 is using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT. With learners exploring these tools at such young ages, it’s more urgent than ever to develop teaching resources that help them understand how… … Continue reading →
- Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation we believe ensuring every child knows how to code will equip them with the skills to thrive in the future. But what do we mean by coding and how can you get started? Coding is how humans give instructions to computers. Machines process and execute these instructions to perform… … Continue reading →
- This blog post is written by Victor Murithi, Communications and Media Consultant at Young Scientists Kenya, one of our global partners for Experience AI in Kenya. When over 100 teachers from across Kenya gathered at Kangaru High School in Embu County for the Kenya Science and Engineering Fair Nationals in April, few anticipated just how… … Continue reading →
- Are you a teacher who is interested in data science education for key stage 5 (age 16 to 18)? Then we invite you to join our free, in-person workshop exploring the topic, taking place in Cambridge, UK on 10 July 2025. You will be among the very first educators to see some of our first… … Continue reading →
- From smart devices to workplace tools, AI is becoming part of everyday life and a major part of how people are thinking about the future — raising big questions about access, skills, and readiness. As governments around the world create AI strategies for the decade ahead, many are seeing an urgent need to address the… … Continue reading →
- What is Scratch? Scratch is a free, beginner-friendly coding platform that allows young people to create animations, games, and interactive stories using simple visual blocks. Scratch removes some of the complexity of coding by replacing syntax-heavy programming languages with intuitive drag-and-drop blocks. This lets creativity take centre stage and makes it the perfect first step… … Continue reading →
- Today’s blog post is written by Dan Shilling, Programmes Manager at Parent Zone, one of our global partners for Experience AI. “Educators have been struggling to find resources and support to teach young people about AI.” This is something I’ve heard a lot when delivering Experience AI teacher training through Parent Zone’s partnership with the… … Continue reading →
- What does outstanding computing education look like in the age of AI? We’ve just released a new series of Pedagogy Quick Reads exploring this vital question. Focusing on three aspects of AI in computing education, these short guides offer practical insights and new strategies for your classroom practice. Each Pedagogy Quick Read is designed to… … Continue reading →
- Last month, the Science Museum of Minnesota welcomed young tech creators from across the country for Coolest Projects USA in a celebration of creativity, curiosity, and coding. Around 40 young people showcased their projects on the day, sharing their work with friends, family, and the wider coding community. With hands-on tech activities, project demonstrations, fun… … Continue reading →
- Today’s blog post is written by Paul Akwabi, Executive Director at Tech Kidz Africa, part of our global partner network for Experience AI. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape industries and redefine how we work and learn, it is essential that Kenyan educators are equipped with the knowledge and skills to introduce AI concepts… … Continue reading →
- An increasing number of frameworks describe the possible contents of a K–12 artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum and suggest possible learning activities (for example, see the UNESCO competency framework for students, 2024). In our March seminar, Lukas Höper and Carsten Schulte from the Department of Computing Education at Paderborn University in Germany shared with us a… … Continue reading →
- Teaching about artificial intelligence (AI) is a growing challenge for educators around the world. In our current seminar series, we are gaining insights from international computing education researchers on how to teach about AI and data science in the classroom. In our second seminar, Franz Jetzinger from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, presented his… … Continue reading →
- Earlier this month, young creators gathered at the Sport Ireland Campus National Indoor Training Centre in Dublin for Coolest Projects Ireland 2025, an inspiring showcase of creativity, coding, and problem solving. With more than 80 participants sharing over 60 incredible projects, this year’s event highlighted the passion and innovation of young creators from across Northern… … Continue reading →
- Generative AI (GenAI) tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are rapidly changing how programming is taught and learnt. These tools can solve assignments with remarkable accuracy. GPT-4, for example, scored an impressive 99.5% on an undergraduate computer science exam, compared to Codex’s 78% just two years earlier. With such capabilities, researchers are shifting from asking,… … Continue reading →
- In April 2023, we launched our first Experience AI resources, developed in partnership with Google DeepMind to support educators to engage their students in learning about the topic of AI. Since then, the Experience AI programme has grown rapidly, reaching thousands of educators all over the world. Read on to find out more about the… … Continue reading →
- As artificial intelligence continues to shape our world, understanding how to teach about AI has never been more important. Our new research seminar series brings together educators and researchers to explore approaches to AI and data science education. In the first seminar, we welcomed Shuchi Grover, Director of AI and Education Research at Looking Glass… … Continue reading →
- This blog post has been written by our Experience AI partners in Romania, Asociatia Techsoup, who piloted our new AI safety resources with Romanian teachers at the end of 2024. Last year, we had the opportunity to pedagogically test the new three resources on AI safety and see first-hand the transformative effect they have on… … Continue reading →
- Recently, our Chief Learning Officer Rachel Arthur and I had the opportunity to attend UNESCO’s International Day of Education 2025, which focused on the role of education in helping people “understand and steer AI to better ensure that they retain control over this new class of technology and are able to direct it towards desired… … Continue reading →
- AI, machine learning (ML), and data science infuse our daily lives, from the recommendation functionality on music apps to technologies that influence our healthcare, transport, education, defence, and more. What jobs will be affected by AL, ML, and data science remains to be seen, but it is increasingly clear that students will need to learn… … Continue reading →
- During this year’s annual Digital Learning Week conference in September, UNESCO launched their AI competency frameworks for students and teachers. What is the AI competency framework for students? The UNESCO competency framework for students serves as a guide for education systems across the world to help students develop the necessary skills in AI literacy and… … Continue reading →
- With the new academic year fully under way in many parts of the world, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the growth and innovations we’ve achieved with the Ada Computer Science platform. Your feedback has helped us make improvements to better support teachers and students — here’s a look back at some of the… … Continue reading →
- To empower every educator to confidently bring AI into their classroom, we’ve created a new online training course called ‘Understanding AI for educators’ in collaboration with Google DeepMind. By taking this course, you will gain a practical understanding of the crossover between AI tools and education. The course includes a conceptual look at what AI… … Continue reading →
- Students and teachers share their stories about the impact the Experience AI lessons have had in developing their understanding of artificial intelligence. We're now expanding Experience AI for 16 more countries and creating new resources on AI safety, thanks to funding from Google.org. … Continue reading →
- Our free teaching materials aim to boost AI literacy worldwide. This blog post explains how we use research to continue to shape our Experience AI resources, including the new AI safety resources we are developing. … Continue reading →
- About three weeks ago, a small team from the Raspberry Pi Foundation braved high temperatures and expensive coffees (and a scarcity of tea) to spend time with educators at the CSTA Annual Conference in Las Vegas. With thousands of attendees from across the US and beyond participating in engaging workshops, thought-provoking talks, and visiting the… … Continue reading →
- The world of education is loud with discussions about the uses and risks of generative AI — tools for outputting human-seeming media content such as text, images, audio, and video. In answer, there’s a new practical guide on using generative AI aimed at Computing teachers (and others), written by a group of classroom teachers and… … Continue reading →
- Today, Laura James, Head of Computing and ICT at King Edward’s School in Bath, UK, shares how Experience AI has transformed how she teaches her students about artificial intelligence. This article will also appear in issue 24 of Hello World magazine, which will be available for free from 1 July and focuses on the impact… … Continue reading →
- Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming more easily accessible to learners and educators, and increasingly better at generating code solutions to programming tasks, code explanations, computing lesson plans, and other learning resources. This raises many questions for educators in terms of what and how we teach students about computing and AI, and AI’s impact… … Continue reading →
- Today’s blog is from Aimy Lee, Chief Operating Officer at Penang Science Cluster, part of our global partner network for Experience AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world at an incredible pace, and at Penang Science Cluster, we are determined to be at the forefront of this fast-changing landscape. The Malaysian government is actively… … Continue reading →
- Young people taking part in the European Astro Pi Challenge are about to have their computer programs sent to the International Space Station (ISS). Astro Pi is run annually in collaboration by us and ESA Education, and offers two ways to get involved: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab. This year, over 25,000 young people… … Continue reading →
- It’s been almost a year since we launched our first set of Experience AI resources in the UK, and we’re now working with partner organisations to bring AI literacy to teachers and students all over the world. Developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind, Experience AI provides everything that teachers need to confidently… … Continue reading →
- As educators, it’s important that we showcase the wide range of career opportunities available in the field of computing, not only to inspire learners, but also to help them feel sure they’re choosing to study a subject that is useful for their future. For example, a survey from the BBC in September 2023 found that… … Continue reading →
- One of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s core values is our focus on impact. This means that we are committed to learning from the best available evidence, and to being rigorous and transparent about the difference we’re making. Like many charities, an important part of our approach to achieving and measuring our impact is our theory… … Continue reading →
- We offer Ada Computer Science as a platform to support educators and learners alike. But we don’t take its usefulness for granted: as part of our commitment to impact, we regularly gather user feedback and evaluate all of our products, and Ada is no exception. In this blog, we share some of the feedback we’ve… … Continue reading →
- We’re really excited to see that Experience AI Challenge mentors are starting to submit AI projects created by young people. There’s still time for you to get involved in the Challenge: the submission deadline is 24 May 2024. If you want to find out more about the Challenge, join our live webinar on Wednesday 3… … Continue reading →
- In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, students are increasingly interacting with AI-powered applications when listening to music, writing assignments, and shopping online. As educators, it’s our responsibility to equip them with the skills to critically evaluate these technologies. A key aspect of this is understanding ‘explainability’ in AI and machine learning (ML) systems. The explainability… … Continue reading →
- Google DeepMind’s Aimee Welch discusses our partnership on the Experience AI learning programme and why equal access to AI education is key. This article also appears in issue 22 of Hello World on teaching and AI. From AI chatbots to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is here and rapidly transforming our world. It holds the… … Continue reading →
- I am delighted to announce that the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind are building a global network of educational organisations to bring AI literacy to teachers and students all over the world, starting with Canada, Kenya, and Romania. Experience AI We launched Experience AI in September 2022 to help teachers and students learn about… … Continue reading →
- Today we’re calling all young people who are excited to explore coding and space science, and the mentors who want to support and inspire them on their journey. Astro Pi Mission Space Lab is officially open again, offering young people all over Europe the amazing chance to have their code for a science experiment run… … Continue reading →
- We are pleased to announce a new AI-themed challenge for young people: the Experience AI Challenge invites and supports young people aged up to 18 to design and make their own AI applications. This is their chance to have a taste of getting creative with the powerful technology of machine learning. And equally exciting: every… … Continue reading →
- It’s been less than a year since ChatGPT catapulted generative artificial intelligence (AI) into mainstream public consciousness, reigniting the debate about the role that these powerful new technologies will play in all of our futures. ‘Will AI save or destroy humanity?’ might seem like an extreme title for a podcast, particularly if you’ve played with… … Continue reading →
- New artificial intelligence (AI) tools have had a profound impact on many areas of our lives in the past twelve months, including on education. Teachers and schools have been exploring how AI tools can transform their work, and how they can teach their learners about this rapidly developing technology. As enabling all schools and teachers… … Continue reading →
- Lots of kids are excited about robotics, and we have the free resources you need to help your children start making robots. What’s a robot anyway? Did you know that the concept of robotics dates back to ancient Greece, where a mathematician built a self-propelled flying pigeon to understand bird flight? Today, we have robots… … Continue reading →
- Celebrate another year of young people’s computer programs in space with us: today we and our collaborators at the European Space Agency can finally announce the winning and highly commended teams in this year’s Astro Pi Mission Space Lab. Mission Space Lab: Young people’s experiments in space In Mission Space Lab, teams of young people… … Continue reading →
- We are delighted to announce that we’ve joined the partner network of edX, the global online learning platform. Through our free online courses we enable any educator to teach students about computing and how to create with digital technologies. Since 2017, over 250,000 people have taken our online courses, including 19,000 teachers in England alone.… … Continue reading →
- Programming is becoming an increasingly useful skill in today’s society. As we continue to rely more and more on software and digital technology, knowing how to code is also more and more valuable. That’s why many parents are looking for ways to introduce their children to programming. You might find it difficult to know where… … Continue reading →
- In brief We are excited to share that 294 teams of young people participating in this year’s Astro Pi Mission Space Lab achieved Flight Status: their programs will run on the Astro Pis installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in April. Mission Space Lab is part of the European Astro Pi Challenge, an ESA… … Continue reading →
- We are delighted to announce that we’ve launched Experience AI, our new learning programme to help educators to teach, inspire, and engage young people in the subject of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Experience AI is a new educational programme that offers cutting-edge secondary school resources on AI and machine learning for teachers… … Continue reading →
- In the 1950s, Alan Turing explored the central question of artificial intelligence (AI). He thought that the original question, “Can machines think?”, would not provide useful answers because the terms “machine” and “think” are hard to define. Instead, he proposed changing the question to something more provable: “Can a computer imitate intelligent behaviour well enough… … Continue reading →
- People have many different reasons to think that children and teenagers need to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Whether it’s that AI impacts young people’s lives today, or that understanding these technologies may open up careers in their future — there is broad agreement that school-level education about AI is important. But how do… … Continue reading →
- This year, 768 teams made up of 3086 young people from 23 countries sent us their ideas for experiments to run on board the International Space Station (ISS) for Astro Pi Mission Space Lab. Mission Space Lab is part of the European Astro Pi Challenge, an ESA Education programme run in collaboration with us at… … Continue reading →
- For our seminar series on cross-disciplinary computing, it was a delight to host Genevieve Smith-Nunes this September. Her research work involving ballet and augmented reality was a perfect fit for our theme. Genevieve has a background in classical ballet and was also a computing teacher for several years before starting Ready Salted Code, an educational… … Continue reading →
- I am delighted to announce a new collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and a leading AI company, DeepMind, to inspire the next generation of AI leaders. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s mission is to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. Our vision is that every… … Continue reading →
- Seminars main pagePrevious seminars You can read up on our past research seminars in short chapters written by our seminar speakers. Each chapter contains the key content of the seminar, as well as additional information and materials for you to delve deeper into the big topics of computing education research. For each seminar series, we… … Continue reading →
- It’s been an incredible year for the European Astro Pi Challenge. We’ve sent new hardware into space, seen record numbers of young people participate in the Challenge, and received lots of fantastic programs. Before we say goodbye to the 2021/22 European Astro Pi Challenge, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the European Space Agency are thrilled… … Continue reading →
- With our online courses programme, launched in 2017, we made it our mission to provide computing educators with the best possible free training we can design. Five years on, here are some of the key stats about the courses’ impact: We’ve produced and launched 35 free online courses We’ve created over 650 educational course videos … … Continue reading →
- We and our partners at ESA Education are excited to announce that 299 teams of young people who entered Mission Space Lab this year have achieved flight status as part of the 2021/22 European Astro Pi Challenge. This means that these young people’s programs are the first ever to run on the two upgraded Astro… … Continue reading →
- Between September 2021 and March 2022, we’ve been partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host a series of free research seminars about how to young people about AI and data science. In the final seminar of the series, we were excited to hear from Stefania Druga from the University of Washington, who presented on… … Continue reading →
- We are really excited that our two upgraded Astro Pi units have arrived on the International Space Station. Each unit contains the latest model of the Raspberry Pi computer, plus a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera and a host of sensors on a custom Sense HAT, all housed inside a special flight case designed to… … Continue reading →
- Our seminars in this series on AI and data science education, co-hosted with The Alan Turing Institute, have been covering a range of different topics and perspectives. This month was no exception. We were delighted to be able to host Tara Chklovski, CEO of Technovation, whose presentation was called ‘Teaching youth to use AI to… … Continue reading →
- What is AI thinking? What concepts should we introduce to young people related to AI, including machine learning (ML), and data science? Should we teach with a glass-box or an opaque-box approach? These are the questions we’ve been grappling with since we started our online research seminar series on AI education at the Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- In Hello World issue 12, our free magazine for computing educators, George Boukeas, DevOps Engineer for the Astro Pi Challenge here at the Foundation, introduces big moments in the history of artificial intelligence (AI) to share with your learners: The story of artificial intelligence (AI) is a story about humans trying to understand what makes… … Continue reading →
- These are our recent external and internal research publications. If you have any difficulties getting hold of them, please contact research@raspberrypi.org. Where the published version is not open access, we have provided the author copy. 2023 Constructing feedback for computer science MCQ wrong answers using semantic profiling Waite, J., Kolaiti, E., Thomas, M.… … Continue reading →
- We and our partners ESA Education are delighted to announce that for this year’s Mission Space Lab of the European Astro Pi Challenge, a record number of 799 teams from 23 countries sent us their ideas for experiments to run on board the International Space Station (ISS). This is an incredible 83% increase from last… … Continue reading →
- AI is a broad and rapidly developing field of technology. Our goal is to make sure all young people have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to use and create AI systems. So what should AI education in schools look like? To hear a range of insights into this, we organised a panel discussion as part… … Continue reading →
- Between September 2021 and March 2022, we’re partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host a series of free research seminars about how to teach AI and data science to young people. In the second seminar of the series, we were excited to hear from Professor Carsten Schulte, Yannik Fleischer, and Lukas Höper from the… … Continue reading →
- Between September 2021 and March 2022, we’re partnering with The Alan Turing Institute to host speakers from the UK, Finland, Germany, and the USA presenting a series of free research seminars about AI and data science education for young people. These rapidly developing technologies have a huge and growing impact on our lives, so it’s… … Continue reading →
- We’re super excited to announce that the European Astro Pi Challenge is back for another year of amazing space-based coding adventures. This time we are delighted to tell you that we’re upgrading the Raspberry Pi computers on the International Space Station (ISS) and adding new hardware to expand the range of experiments that young people… … Continue reading →
- It can be easy to think of science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM) as fields that develop in a linear way, always progressing towards ever better solutions and approaches. Of course, alternative solutions are posed to all sorts of problems, but in western culture, those solutions that did not take hold are sometimes seen as… … Continue reading →
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation and ESA Education are excited to announce the winners and highly commended Mission Space Lab teams of the 2020/21 European Astro Pi Challenge! In Mission Space Lab, teams of young people aged up to 19 create scientific experiments that run on the International Space Station’s two Astro Pi computers — space-hardened… … Continue reading →
- Howdy, Heaven truly is now a place on Earth: we can translate dog barks and ‘speak’ to our furry friends. OK, not quite. But we applaud the attempt since the project was so funny, and the dog in the video is cute. We also applaud YouTube queen Simone Giertz, whom we got to know better… … Continue reading →
- Wow, we haven’t stopped smiling since yesterday’s live Coolest Projects celebration! Hosts Maddie Moate and Greg Foot led us through a live online event jam-packed with stories from participants, cool tech creations, and inspiring messages from our special judges. AND they revealed whose projects the judges picked as their favourites from among all of this… … Continue reading →
- Howdy, We had a cool mix of serious science and weird, fun projects on the blog this week. A Nerf gun was turned into a Call of Duty controller, while we went down a YouTube rabbit hole with some of our favourite content makers. Then Dr Jolle Jolles showed us all the ways Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation and ESA Education are excited to announce that 232 teams participating in Mission Space Lab of this year’s European Astro Pi Challenge have achieved Flight Status. That means they will have their computer programs run on the International Space Station (ISS) later this month! Mission Space Lab gives teams of students… … Continue reading →
- Seminars main pagePrevious seminarsSeminar publications How do we develop AI education in schools? Date: 16 November 2021 Time: 16:30-17:30 GMT / 11:30-12:30 ET / 8:30-9:30 PT / 17:30-18:30 CET AI and data science have recently received a lot of attention in the media, as machine learning systems are now used to make decisions in areas… … Continue reading →