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Announcing the Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2018
In the past, we've held big Raspberry Pi community events in Cambridge to celebrate Raspberry Pi's birthdays. Read about how we're planning to celebrate in March 2018 and beyond on our blog!

Join our new online training course
Educators and makers around the world can take part in our awesome new online course on object-oriented programming! Find out more here.

Powerful new updates for GPIO Zero, our physical computing API
GPIO Zero v1.4 is out now! It comes with a set of new features, including a handy pinout command line tool.
Learn more about the updates, and why the API is useful for teaching, here.

New issue of Hello World out soon
Issue 3 of our free computing magazine Hello World is out on 01 September. It's packed with news, resources, and features from around the globe, and is written by educators for educators. Get your hands on a free copy by subscribing here.

Community

Amanda Haughs

"Since attending Picademy last year, I’ve enjoyed introducing other educators to Raspberry Pi and digital making, both in my district and at local, regional, and international conferences and workshops. As a ToSA (teacher on special assignment) in my district, I’ve partnered with teachers to integrate computer science instruction and digital making into grade level curriculums with Raspberry Pi. I do this using the presentation resources from, and project-based format of, Picademy to teach students as young as Kindergarten age up through 8th grade. Moreover, I’ve begun adapting lessons on the Raspberry Pi website to create materials including printable activity cards and hyperdocs to help me provide a more differentiated and self-paced experience for students. I also share these materials on my blog and on Twitter.

The biggest challenge has been finding the money to purchase equipment for our students. However, I recently acquired some pi-top CEEDs through a donation to teach coding in schools and workshops. Thanks to organizations like DonorsChoose, I’ve been able to raise the funds I need to bring digital making and computer science to students in our low-income schools."

You can contact Amanda via Twitter, and visit her blog for more information and guidance.

Free training

Picademy UK events

Manchester: 02/03 October
Cardiff: 26/27 October
Birmingham: 04/05 December

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Online training

Events

Once again the Raspberry Pi Foundation will have a presence at the Scottish Learning Festival, held on 20 and 21 September in the SEC in Glasgow. We'll be at stand D100, showcasing our latest outreach programmes and some awesome projects for people to try out. Come see us, and have a chat about any queries you might have about the Foundation and our various educational initiatives.

Making projects

Build a distributed computer system using eight Raspberry Pi computers with our Build an OctaPi resource.

Make LEDs blink with a voice command using an AIY Projects kit and our Control LEDs with your voice resource.

Learn about the ideas behind public key cryptography (PKC) in our second OctaPi resource.

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