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Raspberry Pi LEARN Facebook Twitter Website Instagram YouTube News Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2019 Raspberry Pi turns seven years old in February, and to celebrate, we're coordinating Raspberry Jams all over the world on the same weekend! The Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend takes place on 2–3 March 2019. Find out more New Raspberry Pi 3A+ available now! You can now get the 1.4GHz clock speed, 5GHz wireless networking, and improved thermals of Raspberry Pi 3B+ in a smaller form factor and at a lower price of $25. Find out more Last chance to complete the Certified Educator annual survey Have you taken part in Picademy? Our survey of Raspberry Pi Certified Educators is about to close and we would love to hear about you and how you teach. There are vouchers and kit to win! Find out more Exciting additions to the latest Raspbian update Find out about all the latest updates including a media player, updated Thonny, a new slimmed-down image, and more. Find out more UK National Centre for Computing Education The Raspberry Pi Foundation is part of a consortium that has secured over £78 million in government funding to make sure every child in every school in England has access to a world-leading computing education. Working with our partners, STEM Learning and the British Computer Society, we will establish a new National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE) and deliver a comprehensive programme of support for computing teachers in primary and secondary schools. This will include resources, training, research, certification, and more. Head to the Raspberry Pi blog for more details, and follow the NCCE's Twitter account to stay updated. Community "My motivation for taking the Foundation's online training courses was to improve my subject knowledge and to find out how to use the Raspberry Pi with Python in a classroom situation. I had a basic knowledge of most of the subject areas covered before I started, but I was by no means an expert programmer!" "I've taken four courses in total and have progressed towards improving my skills with Python. I am now at the stage where I am confident enough to apply what I've learned with the students I teach." "A good example of this is from the Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python course: I've been using Python with my students to control simple input and output devices in the real world such as LEDs, buzzers, buttons, and so on. I've even progressed the students on to programming LED arrays like the Pi Stop." "If I was going to do it all again, I would probably take a more structured approach to my learning — it's quite easy to lose focus on a course when you are working by yourself and haven't got someone physically teaching you face-to-face. Having said that, the peer-to-peer learning system in FutureLearn is good and allows for plenty of interactions between the user and other course-takers and course facilitators." Martin Caddy is a teacher and Raspberry Pi Certified Educator. Connect with him on Twitter to start a conversation. Projects Learn how to package your Python modules so others can use them, with our Packaging your Python code resource. Learn how to code a website about bird conservation, with our Beginner HTML & CSS for social innovation resource. Create an animated sunrise using CSS, with our Sunrise resource. Copyright © 2018 Raspberry Pi Foundation. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up to the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Education email list at http://www.raspberrypi.org/education Our mailing address is: Raspberry Pi Foundation 30 Station Road Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB1 2JH United Kingdom

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