ANNUAL REVIEW 2014

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Raspberry Pi provides the opportunity for kids all over the world to learn computer science

DAVID CLEEVELY ...... 3 ...... 4-5 CLIVE BEALE ...... 6 LIZ UPTON ...... 7 RACHEL RAYNS 8 DAVE HONESS 9 CARRIE ANNE PHILBIN ...... 10-11 COMMUNITY - ANDREW MULHOLLAND . . . . . 12-13

JEREMY SCHWARTZ CONTENTS COMMUNITY - 14-15

2 RASPBERRY PI ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 FROM THE CHAIRMAN David Cleevely CBE, FREng, FIET

The Foundation wants to make learning computer science fun and exciting, through hands-on computing projects

he and secondary teachers, open computing, and we will be extending is a charity, funded by one to individuals around the world, all these forms of partnership in the Tof the most innovative described by one recently graduating coming year. In total the Raspberry ideas in computing: the idea that teacher as “the best CPD I have ever Pi Foundation spent about £1.85m on a $35 computer can enable a new had the pleasure of undertaking”. charitable activities in 2014. generation to learn how to program The basis for this success was laid and use computers creatively. In the Part-funded by you down by the original Trustees and future, the ability to generate and But we don’t do this on our own. Founders of Raspberry Pi: Jack Lang, manipulate information will be as We are funded mostly by our , Eben Upton, Alan important as the ability to generate wholly-owned trading subsidiary, Mycroft, Louis Glass, Rob Mullins and control electricity was in the Raspberry Pi Trading, which gifts its and Pete Lomas, ably assisted in past, creating a societal and economic profits to the Foundation – about the Foundation by Lance Howarth need to encourage improvement £1.5m in 2014. The Foundation and in Trading by Eben Upton – the in computing and related skills. also undertakes funded projects latter helped by the wise advice of Raspberry Pi provides the opportunity for companies and other Sherry Coutu and Hermann for kids all over the world to learn organisations who Hauser. I began my new role computer science. share the Foundation’s as Chairman of both the Education is at the core of the goal of encouraging Trading Company and the Foundation’s mission, and developing children to learn Foundation in September resources to support that mission about computer 2014, taking over is a major part of the Foundation’s science, and from Jack Lang, whose activities. The Foundation wants these amounted contribution to Pi has been to make learning computer science to almost £400k in immeasurable. Lance will fun and exciting, through hands-on 2014. In addition, the be leaving the Foundation in computing projects. The Foundation Foundation works with April, having provided focus also recognises that we need to train other organisations, and process for the mission, the trainers, so it runs the Raspberry facilitating the training and the organisation and we Picademy, a free professional of teachers, outreach to are all hugely grateful for his development experience for primary pupils and global access to contribution.

A BRIGHT YEAR AHEAD Philip Colligan, our new CEO (formerly Deputy CEO of Nesta) joins us in July, and has a wealth of experience to bring to the Foundation. I have been and continue to be amazed at the talent and enthusiasm at Raspberry Pi, and I am looking forward to working both with him and the great teams in Trading and the Foundation on the next stage of the journey.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 3 EBEN UPTON Chief Exective Officer

We sold over two million Raspberry Pi computers, bringing our lifetime sales to a remarkable five million units

014 was a busy and profitable Raspberry Pi 2 continued to invest in increasing year for Raspberry Pi Trading. Much of our internal hardware the performance and stability of 2We sold over two million engineering effort was directed at the Raspberry Pi software platform. Raspberry Pi computers, bringing our the Raspberry Pi 2 project, which Our own engineers have delivered lifetime sales to a remarkable five became public at the start of February improved USB and SDIO stacks, million units. Our popular first-party 2015. The Broadcom SoC used by comprehensively revised the user accessories, the Raspberry Pi visible- this product arrived in May, and experience, and are progressively light and infrared cameras, continue by the end of the summer we had eliminating proprietary elements to sell well, generating significant functioning prototypes. Final tweaks of our board support in favour of incremental revenue. to the design were complete by the standards-based alternatives. On the hardware side, we start of December, allowing our We continue to make significant released improved versions of partners to begin manufacture in use of external contract engineers our principal products, the Model mid-January. For the first time, we to provide software engineering B+ and Model A+, with the latter have made services, and to make small reducing our entry-level price from use of ODM contributions to open source $25 to $20. We also launched the partners projects on which we rely. SO-DIMM form factor Raspberry to deliver This year we have funded Pi Compute Module to support non-core improvements to the Kodi our growing industrial customer hardware media player, the Pixman base. We continued development components, and libav libraries, the PyPy of the 7” Wide VGA Raspberry Pi including a Python virtual machine, display board, targeting a launch branded power and the Scratch educational in the second quarter of 2015, and supply, mouse, programming language. Our provided engineering support for the keyboard, and USB largest external software project, Foundation’s Oracle weather station WiFi dongle. Epiphany, has delivered a and Astro Pi projects. We have PC-quality web browser with hardware-accelerated media Eben Upton announcing the decoding, for use on Raspberry Pi immediate availability of the Raspberry Pi 2 in February 1 and 2. Engineering base We started 2014 with four full-time employees in Raspberry Pi Trading and leave with ten, having acquired four software engineers, a hardware engineer, and an administrator. These acquisitions have increased the breadth and depth of our engineering base; we are already seeing some early output from their efforts. In January, we were joined by our first non-UK employee, Matt Richardson, who will act as a product evangelist in San Francisco.

4 RASPBERRY PI The Raspberry Pi 2 retains compatibility with the previous model The combination analogue audio and video port is particularly useful for developing countries that rely on legacy hardware

40 General Purpose Input and Output (GPIO) pins allow users to try physical computing - controlling real-world The Raspberry Pi is devices with their designed to plug code into any monitor or modern TV

The 900MHz quad- core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU on the Broadcom BCM2836 SoC. 1GB of RAM sits on the rear of the board

Raspberry Pi 2 uses the same ubiquitous USB port for power, meaning any Android smartphone or tablet power cable will work

TAKING THE NEXT STEP 2015 promises to be another great year, as we capitalize on the launch of Raspberry Pi 2, and take the next steps in bringing affordable, general-purpose computing to the world. We hope you’ll join us.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 5 CLIVE BEALE Educational Research and Pyrotechnics

In 2014 outreach ranged from vast national and international events to small workshops in schools

n November 2013 I presented expertise and creativity, all backed media including the BBC News, our short- and medium-term by Liz Upton’s consummate Daily Politics, Radio 4, the Times Istrategy to the Board of Trustees. management and communications Educational Supplement, and The action points were: expertise. This mix isn’t an accident, numerous magazines. and it’s why the Foundation is so n Build an educational website unique and so effective. raspberrypi.org n Create resources for both teachers Outreach is handled by the whole We’ve partnered with and and learners team, and in 2014 this ranged from supported many individuals and n Educate educators via CPD vast national and international organisations, as seen on our blog and training events such as BETT and World found at raspberrypi.org, and n Increase and improve outreach Maker Faire, to small workshops in we’ve also supported a wide range schools. We’ve trained and talked of projects and activities via our It was optimistic—I was the sole to a lot of people! Team members educational fund. member of the Education Team have also been busy on long-term, We have a dynamic website at the time—but these were the individual projects: Carrie Anne beautifully illustrated by Sam things that we felt were essential with Picademy; Alder and stuffed to achieve our charitable mission. Ben with full of educational Happily, the outstanding success the website resources for of the Pi has allowed us to expand and online teachers and the team and a year on, we’re proud resources; learners. We’ve to say that we have achieved all of Dave with the also trained 160 those things and more. weather station teachers and we’ve and AstroPi; talked to, supported The Education Team Rachel with and trained In January 2014 we welcomed three the Digital thousands of other new Education Team members: Creatives project people via national Dave Honess, Ben Nuttall, and and a number of add- and international Carrie Anne Philbin. Rachel Rayns, on boards; and Clive outreach. During 2014 our Artist in Residence, also on the (now complete) we supported and joined the Foundation formally as Google Pi project. The encouraged anyone creative producer. This gives the education team has who wants to use the team a powerfully eclectic mix of also featured heavily in Raspberry Pi to teach, educational experience, technical the national and local learn or make.

A STRONG POSITION FOR THE YEAR AHEAD In terms of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education mission, in 2014 we exceeded both our goals and our expectations. It has been a remarkable year for the Foundation, with the growth in the Education Team allowing us to reach more educators and help enthusiastic learners. In 2015 we will continue to grow and develop.

6 RASPBERRY PI LIZ UPTON Head of Communications

We built an enourmous and diverse community around the Raspbery Pi and its applications in computing education

ur education team focuses on in 2015 expect to considerably more Community events formal education: learning than double the number of KS2 to Raspberry Jams, community-run user Oin schools, in a classroom KS5 resources we have available, events, have spread around the world; environment; and on informal eventually covering the entirety of the in a typical month there are more education: learning in computer new Computing curriculum. These than thirty Jams, held in hackspaces, clubs outside school, alongside resources will always be absolutely schools, garages, cafés and town halls, projects for children to complete at free of charge to use. from the Rhône Valley to Taipei. We home, on their own and with friends. The Raspberry Pi Foundation offer co-ordinators information and We have created a growing body of has built an enormous and diverse tips on setting up events; we provide free learning resources, linked to community around the Raspberry them with a place to advertise their the English National Curriculum, Pi device and its applications in Jams, and a forum where they can targeted at children of all ages and all computing education. Volunteers discuss best practice and talk to other school levels. from outside the organisation have organisers; and we try to attend and Alongside full schemes of work for put together some astonishingly support as many of the events in teachers, including complete lesson complex events and products, all person as we can. plans, classwork, homework, and helping to further our goals of The energetic offline community links to the English Program of Study, democratising computing education. mirrors the extraordinary online we provide worksheets for individual community that we have built up learners on projects from getting An official magazine around the Raspberry Pi. We work started with a programming language In 2014, we worked with the closely with the press to grow that all the way up to building a robot volunteer group running The community through engaging butler, a morse code virtual radio, or MagPi, a home-brew, free, online coverage of the Raspberry Pi and an electronic musical instrument. We Raspberry Pi magazine, to transfer Raspberry Pi projects. (In the year continue to expand on these resources the management and production ending February 2015, we saw 35,698 as the education team grows, and of the magazine to the Foundation. articles about Raspberry Pi across the The first official Foundation issue global press.) appeared at the end of February 2015; a professionalised, curated, reliable source of inspiration and information on all topics around the Raspberry Pi. Projects (all accessible to children) to build and make are at the heart of the magazine, and will be collated later in the year into books, which will be freely available to download.

MAINTAINING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY Social, family and community networks are crucial in maintaining the success of our charitable work and we are fortunate to have found so many people who share our core goal of democratising computing education.

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 7 RACHEL RAYNS Creative Producer

Young people who participate will be offered artistic and technical support and mentoring

n February 2015, we launched The 12-month Each participant will also receive Raspberry Pi Foundation’s programme includes: a Raspberry Pi starter kit and a Inew Creative Technologists n monthly individual and £300 materials grant. The group programme. The program is group mentoring will receive a £1000 grant for focused on supporting and sessions led by exhibition costs. inspiring young people who have Raspberry Pi found themselves outside science, Foundation staff Getting there technology, engineering and n additional The Raspberry Pi mathematics (STEM) education, mentoring Foundation will cover but still have an interest in the from noteworthy travel within the UK, creative uses of technology. industry partners accommodation, entry n software fees and sustenance Welcoming and on organised field trips, 16 to 21 year olds hardware and visits to Cambridge Young people between 16 and project hacklabs. We have 21 years old have been invited help and some exciting partners lined to apply for a free 12-month support up to help out our Creative mentoring program, which will n field trips; Technologists with mentoring, lead to a Trinity College London behind-the-scenes site visits, industry and Gold Arts Award. A Level 3 industry visits; technical advice, including Award, the Gold accreditation events the V&A, FutureEverything, has a Qualifications and Credit and conferences Writers’ Centre Norwich, Framework (QCF) credit value of n exhibition Hellicar & Lewis, Saladhouse 15, and results in 35 UCAS points. opportunities Animation, and Pimoroni.

MAKING THINGS HAPPEN Young people who participate will be offered artistic and technical support and mentoring, practical assistance, grant and funding advice, access to excellent partners, and an environment that supports people who want to make things happen. We can’t wait to get our participants’ creative and technological juices flowing.

8 RASPBERRY PI DAVE HONESS Education Resource Developer

The project intends to strengthen and encourage further study of STEM subjects in school students

n 2015, we are launching two very They’ll be learning to: ESA Astronaut Tim Peake to the special national and international n Use a predefined Raspberry International Space Station (ISS) in Iprojects for children, supported Pi hardware kit to build their November 2015. The project intends by learning resources. own weather station and write to strengthen and encourage application code that logs a range further study of STEM subjects in Weather Station of weather data including wind school students. At the core of the In the early part of 2014, the speed, direction, temperature, mission is a Raspberry Pi B+ with Raspberry Pi Foundation was awarded pressure, and humidity a peripheral sensor board full of an FY14 grant by Oracle to develop a n Write applications to interrogate magnetometers, accelerometers, weather station around the Raspberry their weather station and record gyroscopes, motion sensors and Pi, along with a scheme of work for data in a cloud-hosted Oracle other equipment that can be schools. The grant money is to be Application Express database used for a variety of different used to pay for 1000 free weather n Interrogate the database via SQL experiments and programming stations, to be distributed around the to enable macro level data analysis exercises on board the ISS. world to participating schools. n Develop a website on the The board can be produced The scheme of work involves a Raspberry Pi to display local inexpensively and will be made mix of cross-curricular activities weather conditions, that can be available to thousands of schools. covering computing, meteorology accessed by other participating The project’s goal is to create the and geography subject areas. schools situation, which has never existed In November 2014, 20 weather n Access a Weather Station for before, where school students have station prototypes were released Schools program website to see access to exactly the same hardware to a closed list of trial participants the geographical location of all as is used in space. The Astro Pi who have been providing weather stations in the program, competition is open to primary and valuable feedback. In February locate the websites of other secondary schools, and invites them 2015 we started taking signups participating schools, interact to devise and code their own app or from schools, and have been with other participants about their experiment which, if they win, will overwhelmed by the speed and experiences, blog, and get online be flown to the ISS and run by Tim volume of applications for the technical support Peake on his Raspberry Pi. free units. Final weather station HATs Astro Pi (Hardware Attached on Top The Raspberry Pi FUTURE PROJECTS boards) have been committed to Foundation has Both the weather manufacture, and we are currently in partnered with the UK station and Astro Pi talks with Technology Will Save Us Space Consortium, hardware will be made to arrange the assembly of the 1000 the UK Space Agency available for the public kits that will be shipped to schools. and the European Space to buy after schools Pupils will be analysing their Agency to create the own data and working with other Astro Pi project. Astro Pi have been sent their schools using the same equipment will exploit educational equipment, to help raise to build a huge, global array of opportunities arising from funds for future projects. weather data collection. the upcoming flight of British

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 9 CARRIE ANNE PHILBIN Education Pioneer

The Foundation wants to make learning computer science fun and exciting, through hands-on computing projects

ne of my first events with n empower individuals to Science, Design Technology, Art, the Raspberry Pi Foundation give training to others in Music, English, and History. Owas the BETT Show 2014, geographical areas it would be Picademy has proved to be a very where one of the most commonly hard for us to reach popular event. Applications for each asked questions from teachers n build a teaching community event number between 70 and 140. attending the show was “When will to help us run/mod education With only 24 places on offer due to you be providing training?” They forums the size of the space available at Pi indicated that they had Raspberry n demonstrate the Raspberry Pi’s Towers and number of staff, cohorts Pis or were about to acquire them, effectiveness as a teaching and were selected using but were unsure how to use them in learning tool across a variety the following the classroom. of different subjects, and for criteria: In response, the Raspberry Pi children of all ages Foundation launched Picademy, n establish a network of a free training program for practising Raspberry Pi classroom teachers in both teachers to be utilised by primary and secondary, initially the media and other in the UK, but after two events organisations this was extended to International teachers too. A strong start In 2014, the education team ran Picademy’s purpose is to: six Picademies in April, June, n provide genuine, high-quality July, September and October, Raspberry Pi continuing and in November ran the first professional development (CPD) ‘on the road’ Picademy event in and accreditation for teachers , training approximately 24 n create a circle of educators we teachers at each event. We have can call on to test and write emphasised the cross-curricular resources use of computing, and have n create a circle of educators we welcomed teachers from subject can call on to assist with events areas including Computing, like BETT/EICE

10 RASPBERRY PI n Location - We are looking for n Gender - We aim to have a 50/50 team. By September, the team a good geographical spread. split of male and female teachers also included members of the Four places are reserved for n Enthusiasm - Are the candidates Raspberry Pi community. On day international teachers likely to train or share their two, the teachers are encouraged n Primary or Secondary - We experiences with others? to think about what they learned aim to have a 50/50 spread of n Knowledge - Will the course meet on day one and then, in groups or primary and secondary teachers the needs of the teacher? as individuals, work on a project n Subject - We aim to have a good idea that they could take back mix of subjects represented and use in their classrooms. The hackday style of day two has led Teaching the teachers to some interesting outcomes. For On day 1 of Picademy, attendees example, it is interesting to see, are split into groups and and later discuss with the teachers, rotated through five different the pedagogy that takes place workshops led by members of during the day; how they interact the Foundation’s education and work together in groups, the directions their projects take, what they are able to achieve, and the diversity of the projects are great topics of discussion. Feedback from Picademy attendees has been overwhelmingly positive. Of those who completed our survey, 97.5% stated that they were now likely or very likely to use Raspberry Pi in their classroom. 98.8% stated that they were likely or very likely to share the training with other teachers.

GROWING PICADEMY IN 2015 Due to the success of Picademy in 2014, more events have been planned for 2015. Picademy Wales was the first event held outside Cambridge to target specific areas of the UK. More Picademies are due to take place outside Cambridge in collaboration with partners in 2015, and we plan to launch the first overseas Picademies too.

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ot all of the outreach and by individuals, there’s an astonishing educational work done under wealth of participation. Nthe Raspberry Pi banner Andrew Mulholland, for example, is comes from people who work with Talk Talk’s overall Digital Hero for us in Cambridge. The Raspberry Pi 2014. Based in Northern Ireland, he’s community is enthusiastic, passionate only 18 years old, but he’s pivotal and spread all over the world. From the in the region’s growing uptake of 100,000 participants in our forums, computer science in schools. Andrew who offer support and advice, to the is behind the very successful Northern hundreds of Raspberry Jam events set Ireland Raspberry Jams, and has up by community members all over written free, open-source classroom the world, and the extraordinary work management software for the Pi, around our charitable goals carried out which is used widely by schools.

RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION EDUCATION FUND In the last 12 months, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education fund has supported projects around the world, taking diverse approaches to computing education, from the following organisations:

n Aotea College n Moore County Schools n Barnardo’s Hub n NatureBytes n Cambridge Science Centre n Nesta n Cambridge University n Newham Music Trust n Cardiff Metropolitan University n Our Lady’s Catholic High School n Central Davidson Middle School n Oxford University n Co-Creation Hub Limited n Powering Potential n Code Club n Public Labs n CoderDojo n Rensselaer n Computing Museum n Royal Horticultural Society n Donald Danforth PS Center n Science Buddies n EcoHouse n SETPOINT Hertfordshire n Edusfera Association n Sheffield City Council n Engineering in Motion n Suter & Hope Technology In Learning n Eyemouth High School n The Turing Trust n Green Street Green Primary School n n Hertfordshire University (was CAS/BCS) n Winton Community Academy n Input n World Possible n Louisville Center for Design at Lindsey Wilson College n Young Pioneers

12 RASPBERRY PI COMMUNITY ANDREW MULHOLLAND Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam and PiNet creator

PiNet has been set up right across the world, from a rural village school in India, to an international school in Kuwait

he Northern Ireland Raspberry and adults from completely opposite in Kuwait, and a charity on the TJam is a free, monthly, family- ends of the country. They swap email outskirts of New York. friendly event, where attendees get addresses and phone numbers, and Its ease of use is another important to play with and create code and continue to chat and plan Raspbery Pi factor; it has been set up by electronics-based projects to make projects between events. headmasters, teachers, technicians, cool things and do awesome stuff STEM Ambassadors and even, in with the Raspberry Pi. PiNet.org.uk a large number of cases, by the We run it at Farset Labs, a Another project I’ve been working on students themselves. Northern Ireland Hackspace in for some time is PiNet. It’s a free and Harry, an 11-year-old from Belfast. Previous activities at the open-source piece of software that England, uses PiNet to configure and event have included Raspberry Pi- I started working on when I was 16, maintain a Raspberry Pi network for powered exploding heart-shaped designed to help set-up and manage an entire school. Liam, an 18-year- balloons, infrared and ultrasonic entire classrooms of Raspberry Pis. old who did the same, goes further Santa detectors, Minecraft hacking, It adds network user accounts, and fixes bugs if he finds them. If quick reaction games, and music shared folders, a single master he’s successful, he sends the changes making. operating system image, auto back via Github so others can benefit Like most Raspberry Jams, the backups, and easy integration with from his work. PiNet is completely events are run very regularly (ours classroom management software. It free and open source for anyone to happens on the second Saturday also comes with a website containing take and use. of every month) and most of the more than 30 pages of attendees are children. documentation that The kids love it and many travel breaks down its features from right across Northern Ireland to and functionality. attend. For the parents, it’s a great One of the most way to ensure their kids are learning rewarding things about lots of extremely useful skills and this project is that it has meeting like-minded friends. been set up right across One of the most important aspects the world, from a rural of Raspberry Jams are the friendships village school in India, to that are fostered between children an international school

ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 13 COMMUNITY JEREMY SCHWARTZ Director, WorldPossible

Raspberry Pi gave us the ability to create a plug-and-play webserver and hotspot at an affordable price

hat an incredible year it has “Remote Area Community Hotspots webserver and hotspot at a low Wbeen. World Possible has for Education and Learning,” price point that we could distribute seen RACHEL-Pi (our Raspberry Pi- (“R.A.C.H.E.L.”) – a locally cached to masses of people, without any based educational server) deployed web server accessed through any background required in computer in scores of countries – often in the networked system with a web literacy. most remote locations – delivering a browser (with no need for internet world of educational content to tens connectivity). RACHEL-Pi of thousands of students previously In 2013, a partnership with the far removed from the great online False start Gates-backed Riecken Libraries in learning tools those of us reading this Probably more naïvely than Guatemala and Honduras, as well take for granted almost every day. anything, in 2009 in Sierra Leone as a funding leap of faith by a few In 2009, World Possible (an an attempted round of pilot projects esteemed donors and the Rotary Club all-volunteer team, mostly from of RACHEL, which at the time was a of Portola/Woodside Valley (CA), Cisco) curated a package of Creative power-hungry NAS device, failed in a allowed us to launch a new phase Commons resources that contains pretty dramatic fashion. of World Possible and RACHEL- content from Wikipedia, Khan The failure took a real toll on us, Pi, focused on creating, curating, Academy, CK12 textbooks, and but forced us to rethink RACHEL and distributing relevant content much more for offline distribution, ultimately building a from and within disconnected distribution. distribution network of partnerships communities. It is a good old Coupling the with on-the-ground teams in Africa fashioned sneaker net, delivering content with that could do the hard part for us, locally relevant (and often locally open-source many of which still lead the RACHEL created) digital educational content web server distribution charge today. to disconnected schools, libraries, software, we Despite the early successes of orphanages, and community centres. could create those groups, we still didn’t The World Possible team in have the final piece of the Guatemala is now led by Israel Quic, puzzle that has exploded a native Mayan, who was initially RACHEL deployment attracted to RACHEL-Pi as a means today: development of of preserving and teaching his open-source educational Mayan heritage and language to local resources, uniform communities. Israel quickly saw an standards of web opportunity to collect more locally browsers, and relevant agricultural and political proliferation resources than we currently distribute of low cost as part of our Spanish-language computing RACHEL-Pi. In April the fruits of his hardware labour truly began to sprout when and storage. word came from one agricultural Then we community, an early RACHEL-Pi came across recipient, which built a drip irrigation the Raspberry system out of old plastic bottles Pi, which gave after discovering how to do it from a us the ability single teacher’s smartphone, while to create a researching our Guatemalan content plug-and-play on their RACHEL-Pi.

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Above Grace, a teacher at Akoyikoyi School in Chuuk, receives a RACHEL-Pi

What’s next? “Tell me and I forget, to replicate the successes that have teach me and I may remember, been achieved in Guatemala. In involve me and I learn.” Micronesia, Professor Hosman and Globally, the RACHEL effort her students curated a RACHEL is still driven by the hundreds of for the state of Chuuk. She’s now groups that download RACHEL and working with Inveneo to deploy distribute independently in their own RACHEL to the entire region’s communities. Everything we do is network of schools. free to download through our website, In Kenya and East Africa, thanks to FTP site, BitTorrent sync, or even a generous grant from the Raspberry shared Dropbox. The Raspberry Pi Pi Foundation, we’ve just completed has also made it possible for anyone a hire (Bonface Masaviru) to follow Available 24/7 to do this on their own, a powerful the roadmap that Israel Quic laid out Installations of RACHEL-Pi in democratisation of access to a in Guatemala. Bonface is spreading community centres and libraries are world-class education. RACHEL throughout Kenyan schools often made available 24/7, enabling and working with local volunteers anyone with a smartphone to come Nearly 40 countries such as Zack Matere to help us curate and learn, research, and explore. World Possible will continue to RACHEL Shamba, an offline package The mission in Guatemala is still support these groups through our of farming resources. just beginning, but the lessons own volunteer network, through We’ll continue to find ways to hire learned and successes are providing independent advice, and by creating additional country managers, local to a key roadmap for World Possible. the best package of content available. their communities Make available valuable educational Today, a biweekly newsletter is with proven resources, supplement them with connecting thousands of RACHEL dedication to locally relevant vocational and advocates in nearly 40 countries, RACHEL, to involve cultural content, get buy-in from who have been through the process indigenous people local community volunteers, and and can provide best practices to new in distributing distribute… distribute… distribute. users locally. the content they The results are truly inspirational. What excites us most is our ability currently lack.

WorldPossible was setup in 2013 and in 2014 they sucessfully applied for support from the Education Fund.

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