Experience AI: Teach about AI, chatbots, and biology

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew 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 […]

Make a robot: A fun and educational journey into robotics for kids

Reading Time: 5 minutesLots 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 […]

Get ready for Moonhack 2023: Bringing space down to Earth

Reading Time: 3 minutesMoonhack is a free global, online coding challenge by our partner Code Club Australia, powered by Telstra Foundation. It runs once a year for young learners worldwide. In 2022, almost 44,000 young people from 63 countries registered to take part. This year, Moonhack will happen from 10 to 26 October, to coincide with World Space […]

Digital making with Raspberry Pis in primary schools in Sarawak, Malaysia

Reading Time: 6 minutesDr Sue Sentance, Director of our Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, shares what she learned on a recent visit in Malaysia to understand more about the approach taken to computing education in the state of Sarawak. Dr Sue Sentance Computing education is a challenge around the world, and it […]

The four elements of our focus on impact

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation is to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. That’s what we say in our 2025 strategy. But how can we be sure we’re succeeding? Participants at a CoderDojo in England. In our strategy we also identify one of […]

Young people’s amazing experiments in space: Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2022/23

Reading Time: 5 minutesCelebrate 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 […]

Our Code Editor is open source

Reading Time: 5 minutesA couple of months ago we announced that you can test the online text-based Code Editor we’re building to help young people aged 7 and older learn to write code. Now we’ve made the code for the Editor open source so people can repurpose and contribute to it. How can you use the Code Editor? […]

Apply for a free UK teacher’s place at the WiPSCE conference

Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom 27 to 29 September 2023, we and the University of Cambridge are hosting the WiPSCE International Workshop on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research for educators and researchers. This year, this annual conference will take place at Robinson College in Cambridge. We’re inviting all UK-based teachers of computing subjects to apply for one of […]

Running a workshop with teachers to create culturally relevant Computing lessons

Reading Time: 6 minutesWho chooses to study Computing? In England, data from GCSE and A level Computer Science entries in 2019 shows that the answer is complex. Black Caribbean students were one of the most underrepresented groups in the subject, while pupils from other ethnic backgrounds, such as White British, Chinese, and Asian Indian, were well-represented. This picture […]

Bringing computing education research to a new global audience

Reading Time: 3 minutesA network of more than 40 partner organisations in over 30 countries works with us to grow and sustain the worldwide Code Club and CoderDojo networks of coding clubs for young people. These organisations, our Global Clubs Partners, share our mission to enable young people to realise their potential through the power of computing and […]

Celebrating the community: Spencer

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe love hearing from members of the community and how they use their passion for computing and digital making to inspire others. Our community stories series takes you on a tour of the globe to meet educators and young tech creators from the USA, Iraq, Romania, and more. For our latest story, we are in […]

More Unity: Dive deeper into 3D worlds, game design and programming

Reading Time: 4 minutesOur ‘Intro to Unity’ educational project path is a big success, sparking lots of young people’s passion for 3D game design and programming. Today we introduce the ‘More Unity‘ project path — the perfect next step for young people who have completed our ‘Intro to Unity‘ path. This new free path is designed to bridge […]

The Raspberry Pi Foundation and edX: A new way to learn about teaching computing

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe 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. […]

Young people designed 15,000 images for astronauts in Astro Pi Mission Zero 2022/23

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the Columbus module of the International Space Station (ISS), there are two Astro Pi computers called Marie Curie and Nikola Tesla. These computers run the programs young people create as part of the annual European Astro Pi Challenge. For this year’s Astro Pi Mission Zero, young people sent us over 15,000 programs to show […]

How we’re learning to explain AI terms for young people and educators

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhat 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 […]

Introducing the Hello World newsletter

Reading Time: 2 minutesLaunched six years ago, Hello World magazine is the education magazine about computing and digital making. It’s made for educators by educators, and a community of teachers around the world reads and contributes to every issue. We’re now starting a monthly Hello World newsletter to bring you more great content for computing educators while you […]

Celebrating 5801 young people’s digital creations at Coolest Projects 2023

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn absolutely huge congratulations to each and every single young creator who participated in Coolest Projects 2023, our digital technology showcase for young people! 5801 young people from 37 countries took part. This year’s participants made projects that entertained, inspired, and wowed us — creators showcased everything from robotic arms to platformer games. We celebrated […]

Introducing Code Clubs in eastern India: 32,000 more young digital makers

Reading Time: 5 minutesAt the Raspberry Pi Foundation, our mission is to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies. One way we achieve this is through supporting a global network of school-based Code Clubs for young people, in partnership with organisations that share our mission. For the past couple […]

Hello World #21 out now: Focus on primary computing education

Reading Time: 2 minutesHow do we best prepare young children for a world filled with digital technology? This is the question the writers in our newest issue of Hello World respond to with inspiration and ideas for computing education in primary school. It is vital that young children gain good digital literacy skills and understanding of computing concepts, […]

24850 young people’s programs ran in space for Astro Pi 2022/23

Reading Time: 4 minutesOver 15,000 teams of young people from across Europe had their computer programs run on board the International Space Station (ISS) this month as part of this year’s European Astro Pi Challenge. Astro Pi is run in collaboration by us and ESA Education, and offers two ways to get involved: Mission Zero and Mission Space […]

Preparing young children for a digital world | Hello World #21

Reading Time: 5 minutesHow do we teach our youngest learners digital and computing skills? Hello World‘s issue 21 will focus on this question and all things primary school computing education. We’re excited to share this new issue with you on Tuesday 30 May. Today we’re giving you a taste by sharing an article from it, written by our […]