Raspberry Pi Foundation Annual Review 2018

1 Annual Review 2018 ANNUAL REVIEW

2 Annual Review 2018 CONTENTS

Our mission 4

Introductions 5

Computers 10

Outreach 14

Community 28

Learning 32

Governance and partnerships 44

Annual Review 2018 3 OUR MISSION

ur mission is to put the power network of volunteer-led of computing and digital clubs, exciting competitions Omaking into the hands of and events, and partnerships people all over the world. We do this with youth organisations so that more people can harness this power for work, to solve problems n We provide training and that matter to them, and to express support to educators, themselves creatively. volunteers, and parents who want to help young people Our strategy: learn these skills

n We provide low-cost, high- n We build and support performance single-board communities of young computers and free software people, parents, volunteers, through Raspberry Pi Trading businesses, and educators that Ltd, so that computing and share our mission digital making are accessible to all Since launching our first product in February 2012, we have sold n We help young people acquire more than 22 million Raspberry computing and digital making Pi computers and have helped to skills through compelling establish a global community of learning resources, a thriving digital makers and educators.

We help young people acquire computing and digital making skills

4 Annual Review 2018 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIRMAN DAVID CLEEVELY

018 was a remarkable year for opportunities for even more people to the Foundation. Millions of gain computing skills. people used the educational While the Foundation continues 2projects on our website. We engaged to be funded in part by our Trading with hundreds of thousands of young subsidiary, we also now receive people through Code Clubs and substantial support from many CoderDojos every week. We supported partners, donors, and sponsors. We tens of thousands of educators will keep on forging new partnerships through our training. I am immensely around the world, our growth rooted proud of the team’s role in winning in our identity as the organisation the bid to deliver the National Centre that can help young people develop for Computing Education in England, the digital skills they need for and this will greatly help us as we the future. continue to deliver on our mission to I am privileged to work with help people all over the world create exceptional Trustees, Members, and been supporting and shaping the with computers. Directors as Chairman of the Boards Foundation since the early days. At Raspberry Pi Trading Limited has of the Raspberry Pi Foundation the Annual General Meeting, the had a fantastic year, with more than and Raspberry Pi Trading Limited. Members elected Caroline Brown 22 million Raspberry Pi computers These groups ensure that both to the Board of Trustees. Caroline sold by the end of 2018, including organisations are well governed, brings a wealth of experience from a the new Pi 3 Model B+ and Pi 3 Model and the people in them are great wide range of company Boards, and A+ launched this year. People are advocates for our mission. her contribution to governance will using Raspberry Pi computers in In 2018 David Braben and Louis be invaluable. education, in industry, and in their Glass stepped down as Trustees My thanks to everyone who has homes, and I continue to be surprised of the Foundation, and I’d like to contributed to Raspberry Pi in 2018. by the inventive things people thank them for their incredibly 2019 is already looking to be another accomplish with our products. All of valuable contributions to our work exciting year, and I look forward to these sales fund the educational work over many years. David was one of working with you all over the next of the Foundation and let us create the Founding Members, and has twelve months.

Annual Review 2018 5 INTRODUCTION FROM FOUNDATION CEO PHILIP COLLIGAN

elcome to our Annual young people to learn how digital Review for 2018. It has tools can help them shape their W been another fantastic experiences of the outdoors and year for the Raspberry Pi Foundation of teamwork. The National Citizen and our mission to help more young Service is the UK’s fastest-growing people learn how to create with youth movement for 15- to 17-year- digital technology. olds, and we’re working with the We have continued to grow our organisers to help young people reach and impact worldwide, with learn how to use digital skills and millions of people using our free tools to solve social problems. educational content, and hundreds of We’re looking forward to developing and the British Computing Society, thousands of young people involved similar partnerships outside the UK. and with a wide group of other in our programmes every week, At the end of the year, we received partners, including the University including Code Club and CoderDojo. the amazing news that we had been of Cambridge. It is an immense In 2018 we took on responsibility selected by the UK government privilege and a huge responsibility to for Coolest Projects, the world’s to run the National Centre for be part of this initiative, and we are leading technology fair for young Computing Education and associated determined to have a big impact. people. At events in Dublin, London, programmes. Backed by £82m None of these achievements would and Southern California, thousands of government investment and be possible without the support of young people showcase amazing substantial industry support, this is from the community of makers, projects that they have built using the largest initiative of its kind in the educators, young people, volunteers, digital technologies. world and a once-in-a-generation parents, businesses, and policy- We also launched new opportunity to provide a world- makers we work with. I also want to partnerships with national youth leading computing education for pay a special tribute to the generous organisations in the UK to bring every young person in every school donors and sponsors that provide the digital skills into their programmes. in England. We are working as part resources that enable us to do such Our work with the Scouts is helping of a consortium with STEM Learning amazing work. Thank you.

6 Annual Review 2018 INTRODUCTION FROM TRADING CEO EBEN UPTON

018 has certainly been another October saw the release of the TV busy year for Raspberry Pi HAT, which turns a Raspberry Pi into Trading. We started the year a DVB-T2 digital terrestrial set-top 2with a bang, launching Raspberry box. Our official mouse and keyboard Pi 3 Model B+ on Pi Day (14 March). get an honourable mention, despite The most technically sophisticated slipping into the start of 2019. product we’ve ever designed, this The last product of 2018 was a added dual-band wireless networking poignant one for us. Raspberry Pi and much faster Ethernet to the 3 Model A+ is a cut-down version popular Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, along of the 3B+, with half the memory with a modest CPU speed increase and a single USB port, and is the significant improvements to media and improved thermal behaviour. final ‘classic’ Raspberry Pi product, playback and web browsing. Our The 3B+ also introduced one based on the Broadcom BCM270x publishing team launched a new entirely new feature: Power-over- line of chips. Wherever we go bi-weekly games magazine named Ethernet (PoE) support. In August, next will by necessity be less of an Wireframe, an official Beginner’s we launched the PoE HAT accessory, evolution and more of a revolution, Guide, and the first Code Club Book of which contains the electronics but with seven years of product Scratch; we also welcomed Custom PC needed to power your Raspberry Pi launches we can certainly feel we and Digital SLR Photography into the via an Ethernet cable. Unfortunately, got our money’s worth out of the Raspberry Pi Press family. a design defect relating to USB crept 40 nanometre process! At seven years in, with more than through our pre-launch testing, Alongside all this hardware work, 22 million units sold to date, we’re and for the first time we made the the rest of the organisation has been the UK’s most successful computer decision to take a product off sale keeping busy too. We’ve seen a steady company, and the third-most popular while we addressed it. Some heroic stream of enhancements to our general-purpose computing platform engineering from James Adams software stack, with regular releases in history. We think you’re going to got us back on track, but it was a of our Raspbian-based operating love what we have planned for 2019 chastening experience. system focusing on usability and and beyond. Watch this space.

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COMPUTERS

10 Annual Review 2018 THE RASPBERRY PI Achievements: COMPUTER n Launched the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, which has a 200MHz Our affordable, powerful computer gives people across increase in peak CPU clock the globe the opportunity to learn about and create speed over the Pi 3 Model B, software and physical computing projects three times the wired and wireless network throughput, and the ability to sustain high performance for much he Raspberry Pi is a low-cost, Activities: longer periods high-performance, credit card– There are now more than 22 million card–sized $35 computer and the T sized computer that people use Raspberry Pi computers being smaller form factor $25 model. n Launched the Raspberry Pi 3 in industry, to learn, and to make stuff used by people worldwide to learn In addition, we launched two new Model A+, bringing these that matters to them. This affordable about technology by exploring official accessories: a HAT to power improvements in clock speed, hardware is powered by open- programming and physical a Raspberry Pi 3B+ over Ethernet, networking, and thermal source software that we build and computing, to address problems and and another HAT to receive digital performance to our smaller maintain, and we partner with other challenges they care about, or to TV streams. Our operating system form factor organisations to provide free access to create commercial products. Raspbian was also updated, with powerful educational software tools. This year we launched two new an improved desktop experience, Raspberry Pi computers, increasing easier setup and localisation, the computing power available and a better way to manage our for projects using both our credit recommended software.

n ●Launched the Raspberry Pi PoE HAT, an add-on board to + power a Raspberry Pi 3 Model 22 MILLION B+ via an Ethernet cable Raspberry Pi computers sold by the end of 2018 n Launched the Raspberry Pi TV HAT, an add-on board that lets users receive digital 5 MILLION DVB-T2 TV streams on their of our most recent Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pis to view them or models (3B and 3B+) sold in 2018 stream them over a network to other devices

Annual Review 2018 11 RASPBERRY PI POWERED PROJECTS

Protecting coral reefs German charity Save Nemo works to protect coral reefs with the help of the Raspberry Pi. Their Nemo-Pi project won a Google Impact Challenge award for its potential environmental benefits. Nemo-Pi installs on anchor buoys for diving boats and uses sensors to monitor water conditions. With a Pi for brains, it records visibility, temperature, current, and oxygen and nitrogen The Nemo-Pi levels, letting divers check on shore whether conditions are suitable for a project uses sensors Knitting the universe dive. The device is solar-powered and to monitor water Some makers use the Raspberry Pi as a tool for their artistic creativity. Sarah has GPS tracker to provide location Spencer’s medium for creativity is knitting: she works with a 1980s domestic data. Save Nemo is currently testing conditions knitting machine, complete with pattern scanner and floppy drive port. This Nemo-Pi off the coast of Thailand technology is literally stuck in the 1980s, as you can’t buy such things any more. and Indonesia and plans to install a However, a floppy drive emulator, a Raspberry Pi, and lots of programming network of the monitoring devices in skill have allowed Sarah to innovate with the machine in the 21st century. By shallow reefs across South East Asia. sending patterns from the Pi to the knitting machine through the floppy drive Providing diving organisations with port, she makes personalised knitted items that she sells online. The pinnacle this information will help lower the of her creative work so far is an immense, beautiful tapestry called Stargazing – impact they have on reefs, and the created in seven panels and taking 21 times the memory of the knitting machine data will also be of use to other groups – that accurately depicts constellations and the Milky Way. campaigning for reef conservation.

Read more at rpf.io/knitting Read more at rpf.io/nemo

12 Annual Review 2018 The floating, motion- Motion-tracking tracking eye in a jar software on the

Some Raspberry Pi projects are built computer allows the to change the world; others are just eye to follow anyone downright strange. Lukas Stratman used a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a camera, in the room some magnets, and a table tennis ball to create an eerie floating eye in a jar that tracks movement around the room. Magnets in the table tennis ball react to moving magnets attached to a Raspberry Pi–controlled servo motor below the jar. Motion-tracking software on the computer allows the eye to follow anyone in the room, no Turning text to speech with Oton Glass doubt seriously creeping them out. Raspberry Pi computers are used by people all over the world to create projects that help others. Keisuke Shimakage of the Media Creation Research Read more at rpf.io/eyejar Department at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Japan, was inspired by his father’s dyslexia to create a set of glasses that capture text with a blink and convert it into speech. His project, Oton Glass, uses a Raspberry Pi 3 with two cameras to track eye movement and capture text in the wearer’s field of view. The Raspberry Pi computer then runs optical character recognition and text-to-speech software to convert the captured text, and it can even read in one language and speak in another. The Oton Glass team is working towards public distribution for this innovative product, which has already been runner-up for the James Dyson Award.

Read more at rpf.io/oton

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OUTREACH

14 Annual Review 2018 Annual Review 2018 15 CODE CLUB Code Club works with a global community of volunteers, educators, and partners to run free coding clubs where young people aged 9 to 13 create and share their ideas using code

ode Clubs are led by educators Activities: and volunteers who support We provide free training, support, and HTML/CSS, and Python. Club leaders C young people to learn guidance to educators and volunteers encourage their learners to see our programming skills while creating who help children learn programming project guides as starting points for their own games, animations, in free coding clubs based in schools, creative exploration. and websites. The young people libraries, and community centres use our free project guides to all over the world. We also offer Find out more at: build their confidence in making free step-by-step project guides codeclubworld.org things with technology, and in the for the young people who attend process they also develop soft skills Code Club, which they use to create such as resilience and the ability games, quizzes, animations, and even to collaborate. interactive chatbots with Scratch,

WHAT IS CODING? Children who go to Code Club explain what coding means in our video at rpf.io/whatiscoding

16 Annual Review 2018 Achievements: n Grew the number of Code n Grew the global network of Clubs in the USA by 77%, Code Clubs by 41%, to more adding more than 350 than 14,000 clubs worldwide, new clubs including 7700 clubs in the UK; there are now Code Clubs n Grew the number of Code in 160 countries Clubs in India by 33% through our targeted national programme

More than n Our Local Partners in Croatia, young I really enjoy coding, because you get to do Canada, and Ukraine doubled 250,000 people the number of clubs in learning programming in over fun things and people are normally very their countries 14,000 active clubs worldwide impressed when you do coding n Added more than 350 new volunteers Code Club member Code Clubs to our network in 17,000 and educators the United States running Code Clubs worldwide n Launched the Growth Leaders of UK primary scheme, in which we support 24% schools and 25% established non-profits of UK secondary schools have around the world to grow Code registered to run Code Clubs Club in their communities; so far, there are 14 Growth of club members Leader organisations that 38% are girls have set up 179 clubs

of volunteers say the n Published the first-ever Code 92% children who attend Club book, Code Club Book have improved their programming of Scratch skills through Code Club; 88% say the children who attend are more n Launched a brand-new Code confident in their computer skills Club website with lots of help because of Code Club and positive feedback from our volunteer community

Annual Review 2018 17 CODERDOJO CoderDojo is a global community of free, open, and local programming clubs for young people

ojos are fun programming Activities: clubs where volunteers give The worldwide community of Dyoung people aged 7 to 17 CoderDojos has continued to grow the opportunity to learn how to this year, with volunteers in 114 create with technology. For young countries now running free, open people, Dojos are an informal, programming clubs for young social environment where they people in their communities. At create with code, learn new skills, Dojos, young people learn how to and collaborate to create practical make games, apps, websites, and solutions to problems in their local hardware projects. Creativity is areas and beyond. central to CoderDojo, and young people are encouraged to explore their interests and create practical solutions to problems that matter to them. As well as learning about More than computing and programming, young people young people at Dojos develop skills 55,000 taking in communication, teamwork, part in 2082 Dojos worldwide leadership, and critical thinking.

countries across the Find out how to start a Dojo at: 114 globe have Dojos coderdojo.com

people 12,000 volunteering for CoderDojo

of Dojo participants 33% are girls

18 Annual Review 2018 Achievements: n Increased the number of Dojos worldwide by 45%, to 2082 clubs reaching more than 55,000 young people

n Increased the proportion of girls regularly involved in Dojos from 29% in 2017 to 33% in 2018; increased the proportion of women mentors in line with this

n Reached more than 1000 volunteers through our free online training course about running a CoderDojo, hosted on the FutureLearn platform

n Reached more than 250 youth workers across Ireland CoderDojo provided a space where I was around with full-day training workshops about how to others who shared similar interests, and where introduce programming to we could collectively solve each other’s problems. young people

Since it had meant so much to me over all the n Moved our CoderDojo years, I decided to take it over myself learning resources to the Raspberry Pi projects site Richard, 17, CoderDojo champion to make more educational projects in more languages available to the community

Annual Review 2018 19 COOLEST PROJECTS The world’s leading technology fair for young people

t Coolest Projects events, and this city remains the location Chapman and the Coolest Projects Achievements: young makers share their of the annual Coolest Projects board. We’ve just completed our first n 7 Coolest Projects events held A projects with fellow creators International. And since 2012, season managing Coolest Projects, in 2018 in Europe and North and the public, and they explore Coolest Projects has inspired including the first-ever UK event in America, with the flagship each other’s work. Outstanding volunteers all over the world to London in April, and the first-ever Coolest Projects International entries can win awards in different organise regional Coolest Projects US event at Discovery Cube Orange in Dublin, Ireland, in May categories. All Coolest Projects events in their communities, County in September. events are free to enter and free to engaging thousands more young Coolest Projects community and n More than 300 volunteers attend for young people, giving more people in technology. partner events run in Belgium, worked to organise and run people the opportunity to become 2018 was the first year in which the Bulgaria, and Italy. In 2019 we these spectacular events inspired to create with technology. Raspberry Pi Foundation managed want expand our reach to bring the Coolest Projects events and Coolest Projects to new regions in brand, having been passed the baton collaboration with our community More than Activities: by co-founders Noel King and Ben and partner organisations. participants Coolest Projects began in 2012 as 1700 at all seven the work of CoderDojo volunteers events combined Noel King and Ben Chapman. Their first event was held in Dublin, To any kids who are looking to enter projects a project in Coolest Projects, I would 923 showcased by young tech creators PROJECTS VIDEOS definitely encourage them to go in with Coolest Projects International an open mind. I had no expectations More than - rpf.io/cpintvideo going in and loved being immersed visitors at Coolest Projects UK 7000 the events - rpf.io/cpukvideo in the environment, which exuded Coolest Projects USA innovation and ingenuity countries represented - rpf.io/cpusavideo 16 by the participants Kavi, Coolest Projects USA participant

20 Annual Review 2018 Annual Review 2018 21 THE EUROPEAN ASTRO PI CHALLENGE This programme offers young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on Raspberry Pis aboard the International Space Station

stro Pi is an ESA Education Activities: challenge them to design scientific project run in collaboration The Astro Pi Challenge provides experiments and write programs A with the Raspberry Pi an opportunity for young people to perform them, and the best Foundation. ESA astronauts to engage with computing in a experiments are run on the Raspberry Alexander Gerst and Paolo Nespoli spectacular context, and it raises Pis aboard the ISS. are the Challenge’s ambassadors for awareness of the link between Mission Zero is a simpler mission, 2018/2019, supporting Astro Pi on the computing and space-related and aimed at young people up to 14 years ESA International Space Station. scientific careers. Astro Pi is made of age. It involves writing a simple © up of two missions for different age Python program to take a temperature groups and skill levels. reading and display a greeting to the WHAT IS ASTRO PI? Mission Space Lab is the more ISS astronauts. All valid entries for the ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst young people took advanced mission, aimed at young mission are automatically accepted explains the two missions in a 6813 part in Astro Pi people up to 19 years of age. We and run on the station. video from the International in the 2017/2018 programme Space Station: rpf.io/whatisastropi participants To see a six-year-old girl working with a Python 1402 in 329 teams for Mission Space Lab interface with a twelve-year-old girl, and getting Achievements: really excited, and not being fazed/fussed by text- n 5411 participants in Mission participants Zero, our newly introduced based programming, just kind of looking for a solution 5411 in 2506 non-competitive route for teams for Mission Zero to a problem, just debugging or something… you younger coders know, it’s just magic, isn’t it? It’s a big opportunity of 2017/2018 n The Astro Pi programme 38% participants are girls for informal learning is open to 24 countries (across both missions) – all ESA Members and Mission Zero mentor Associate Members!

22 Annual Review 2018 SCOUTS The Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge gives Scouts in the UK the opportunity to build their computing and digital making skills

e have partnered with the Activities: Achievements: Scout Association to create Together with the Scout Association, n Released the new Digital Maker Wand deliver the new Digital we have created a new badge and Staged Activity Badge, with Maker Staged Activity Badge, which a series of activities that Scouts a new badge design that was introduces digital making to the wide can use to learn digital making the first one featuring the new variety of young people and adult skills and apply them to contexts Scouts logo volunteers who are involved in the that are relevant to them. We’ve Scouting movement. While earning set badge requirements, and we n Produced activity resources this badge, Scouts learn digital skills provide resources to support Scouts, that support the first three in activities we’ve designed to relate to Beavers, Cubs, and Explorer Scouts stages of the badge more traditional Scouting activities. in fulfilling these requirements to earn their badges. Our activities n Promoted the badge at three include writing a simple program official Scout Association using compass directions, creating events for young people electronic camp-fire music, and involved in the movement building a step tracker. Scouts complete an activity for one of the five badge stages – either in their The excellent resources provided by young regular Scouting sessions or in 465,000 people their own time – and then share Raspberry Pi ensured that the Beavers in the UK Scouting movement what they’ve created with their remained focused and completely engaged fellow Scouts. More than throughout the session. The content was badges aimed at just the right level, encouraging 10,000 earned so far COMPASS CODING interesting discussions between the Find out how we are introducing resources created for Scouts to computing and digital Beavers and ensuring that we could 16 Scouts taking the Digital making in this video: complete Digital Maker Stage 1 Maker Badge rpf.io/compasscodingvideo Christine, Scout leader at 1st Heathcote Beavers

Annual Review 2018 23 NATIONAL CITIZEN SERVICE We worked with the NCS Trust to deliver a digital making workshop pilot framed around social action to 15 to 17-year-olds in Surrey and Bournemouth

Achievements: he National Citizen Service is using these services face that the They worked collaboratively to build n Ran the first digital making a youth movement in the UK young people might be able to a digital product that would address programme pilot in NCS T that aims to challenge, change, address with digital technology. the problem they had identified, and engage, and empower 15- to 17-year- The participants then worked with to present the product to their peers. n Evaluated the pilot with NCS olds, and to give them confidence and our facilitators to develop some We are developing our programme to develop it into a full-scale skills for their futures. It incorporates programming and physical computing based on feedback from this pilot, and programme for 2019 experiences in adventure, skills, and skills, and to apply these skills to we will roll it out to thousands of NCS  ESA social action. This year, we worked implement their ideas for a solution. participants in 2019. n All young people in our © with the NCS Trust to develop a evaluation group said two-day programme in which young they learned something, people learned digital making skills It gives you a sense of achievement, and we reached many and applied them to take social action. of going, ‘Oh wow! I can actually code, young people who had no We delivered this pilot programme to experience of digital making 259 young people with The Challenge and I don’t have to be amazingly good before participating in in Surrey, and to 499 with BCHA at computers to be able to do this the programme in Bournemouth.

NCS digital making workshop participant young people took Activities: 758 part in our pilot Our two-day digital making programme for NCS started with a digital projects call to social action. The participating 180 created young people were introduced to various community groups, such More than as aged care facilities or children’s young centres; they were encouraged to 90,000 people take think about what problems people part in NCS every year

24 Annual Review 2018 Annual Review 2018 25 WEATHER STATION The Weather Station programme allows young people worldwide to build hardware and program software to conduct meteorological experiments

ur Raspberry Pi Oracle Activities: Weather Station kits have The Weather Station programme Obeen assembled by schools enables young people to study and all over the world: students have investigate their local climate and built the hardware, they’ve created environment. This programme has the software, and they now collect been running for over two years, so local meteorological data that the young people involved have the they share on our global Oracle chance to work with years’ worth database. Participants learn about of global data records that include building scientific equipment, and seasonal variations. Students about collecting and analysing who have built Weather Stations data – both their own and a with our kits get a very tangible worldwide dataset. connection with this unique dataset. People who are not programme participants can also interact with the dataset through our free online projects – for example, ‘A window on the weather’, which teaches learners how to create visualisations of the data using Scratch.

Find out more at: rpf.io/weatherstation

26 Annual Review 2018 OUTREACH PARTNERSHIP

Funding period: 2016–2018 If you’d like to partner with us in support Total funding: £1,000,000 of our activities for young people, please email [email protected] Achievements: Grant in 2018: £400,000 n Launched our ‘Build your own weather station’ guide to support even more groups and he Shell Centenary Scholarship in the UK and Ireland, allowing more individuals to get involved in Fund (TSCSF) partnered with us young people to showcase their digital the programme; the guide is T for three years to support the making achievements. available online and was also development of young people’s STEM In the UK, we prioritised growth of an in-depth feature article in skills through high-quality learning the Code Club network in disadvantaged The MagPi magazine opportunities and experience-based and underserved communities. We initiatives. In 2018, TSCSF funded Code also extended the age range of Code Club to grow across the world, with a Club attendees to 13 years to give more schools particular focus on increasing access for young people the chance to get involved, 936 with Raspberry Pi disadvantaged groups. The Fund also or remain engaged, in digital making Oracle Weather Station kits supported our Coolest Projects events activities as teenagers.

countries with active 39 Weather Stations

schools registered on We chose to partner with Raspberry Pi based on its track 329 the Oracle database to record and proven success engaging young children in upload and share their weather data coding via the Code Club programme. There is significant

learning resources based demand from secondary schools for this and Code Club is 7 on weather, some requiring reaching many disadvantaged young people the Weather Station and some needing no special equipment Pradeep Pursnani, Director of The Shell Centenary Scholarship Fund

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COMMUNITY

28 Annual Review 2018 RASPBERRY JAMS Raspberry Jams are community-led events where people come together to engage in learning and digital making with Raspberry Pi computers

t Raspberry Jams, people Activities: people who are enthusiastic about Raspberry of all ages create with People of all ages and levels of Raspberry Pi so they can help each 424 Jam events in A Raspberry Pi, share ideas, experience meet at Raspberry Jams to other. Young people and adults often 54 countries in 2018 work together, support one another, create with technology and to support work together on projects; creators and have fun learning new things. and inspire each other. As Jams are bring project prototypes they need More than Members of the Raspberry Pi created by volunteers to suit their support with; beginners can learn people community volunteer their time and local communities, they take many from other digital makers, and the 21,000 attended expertise to run these events all over different shapes: some Jams run more experienced attendees expand Jams in 2018 (50 attendees the world. Many Jams run regularly workshops and inspiring talks; others their skills. Some Jams have been per Jam on average) and build strong local communities. are informal meetings where people running for many years now, and share projects they have made. Their there are always new Jams popping Volunteers in focus is always on bringing together up around the world. countries have hosted 70 Raspberry Jam events Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend We celebrate the birthday of I started coding when I was seven. The first Achievements: Raspberry Pi with Jams taking time I ever coded was at Pi Towers Raspberry n The 2018 Raspberry Jam Big place all over the world on the Birthday Weekend spanned same weekend. Jam, where I learned on Scratch how to make a the entire globe, with Find our more and get involved rocket to go to the moon. And after that, I got more than 130 Jams taking at rpf.io/bday interested in Scratch and got an account, and place in 30+ countries on six continents then I made some of my own projects. [...] And today I run my own workshop here in London n 178 new Jams in 18 new countries: Sudan, Lebanon, A boy who is part of a London Raspberry Jam China, UAE, Denmark, Cambodia, Kenya, Malta, Bulgaria, Peru, Hungary, START A JAM! Argentina, Cuba, Nepal, Anyone can set up a Jam: you just need the enthusiasm to put together an Romania, Zambia, Dominican event for people who share your interests. Find out more at rpf.io/jam Republic, Armenia

Annual Review 2018 29 We showcase the work of the Foundation at major events around the world to introduce computing and digital making to people, engage them with fun EVENTS activities, and help them discover our programmes and learning resources

aker Faires, trade shows, and other large public Mevents are fantastic opportunities to reach people who are new to digital making. Our team participates in these events across the UK and North America to demonstrate the power of learning digital making through practical programming and physical 13,826 computing activities. Our activities people engaged give people a chance to get a first through our taste of digital making, and our presence at major team is on hand to provide tailored events in 2018 information about how to explore the topic further through our programmes and resources. In 2018 we successfully ran the first Coolest Projects UK, where young people present the amazing projects they have made. We also Raspberry Fields ran the first edition of our festival of Footage from our first festival of digital making: digital making, Raspberry Fields. rpf.io/raspberryfieldsvideo

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30 Annual Review 2018 COMMUNITY ONLINE PARTNERSHIP COMMUNITIES very year we are joined at excitement by allowing us to provide any people in the Raspberry enthusiasts, or discuss new products Coolest Projects in the UK, interactive experiences for young Pi community share their and tools. Community members work E US, and Ireland by companies people and their families. Sponsors M projects on social media hard to moderate the forums and and organisations who support our also provide prizes, donate items to and help each other make and learn. support well-informed discussions work. Sponsorship options start at participants’ swag bags, and fund We have thriving communities on all and a positive atmosphere. Across £5000 for community organisations travel bursaries allowing young people major social platforms. The forums social media, we support newcomers and go up to £30,000 at the headline from around the world to attend. at raspberrypi.org are the place and more experienced digital makers sponsorship level. In 2018 our sponsors included Riot for anyone who wants to find help to engage with the community and Some funders donate to our work Games, Blizzard Entertainment, with their project, get to know other learn from one another. throughout the year, while others Broadcom Foundation, The Shell sponsor an event. Coolest Projects Centenary Scholarship Fund, is a highlight for young people who Workday Foundation, Mastercard, want to share the creations they’ve Microsoft Ireland, Travelport Digital, Instagram – @raspberrypifoundation: made in their Code Clubs and Dojos. Dublin City Council, Liberty Global, 122,000 followers (from fewer than 10,000 in 2017) Sponsorship supports the running Liberty IT, Accenture, Allied Irish of these events and adds to their Banks, Zalando Ireland, Facebook, CarTrawler, Canakit, Openet, IBM, YouTube – Raspberry Pi: If you’d like to speak to us about Dublin City University, Zendesk, 46,000 subscribers and 1.5m views in 2018 sponsorship opportunities, please Folens, PayPal, OWASP, Barnardos, email [email protected] Twitter, LogMeIn, Wriggle Learning, Distilled SCH. Twitter – @Raspberry_Pi: 397,000 followers and over 1.6m tweets Last year, we came to Coolest Projects for the first about Raspberry Pi in 2018 time, and it was just such an amazing experience. The participants are our innovators, and they’re Facebook – @raspberrypi: 330,000 likes going to be the future of our technology, so it’s great I P I

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LEARNING

32 Annual Review 2018 CONTENT & CURRICULUM We provide engaging, rigorous, and free educational resources that Achievements: millions of people use to learn computing and digital making skills n Developed and piloted digital making resources for workshops with older teenagers as part of the earning through making is Activities: offer resources that help you create National Citizen Service at the heart of all our online Our project guides and educational digital projects using data from the L resources. In our Digital resources are all free, and they International Space Station, or build n Developed digital making Making Curriculum, we’ve set out all cater for all levels of expertise and a hardware indicator of how many activities for Scouts and the skills we think are important for a variety of interests. Using our astronauts are currently in space, or Scout leaders, supporting becoming a capable digital maker; project guides, learners can make explore how gravity is simulated in them to engage with the each of the projects helps learners everything from a simple Scratch video games. Scouts Digital Maker Staged build one or several of these skills. chatbot to an encrypting Enigma Making our resources accessible Activity Badge Educators use our Curriculum to machine using eight Raspberry Pis! to everyone in the world is centrally inspire the young people they work We’ve designed our projects website important to us, and we work with n Started trialling a system with and to help them learn. around pathways that help people amazing volunteer translators to for informal accreditation in to challenge themselves and expand provide our projects in a variety of Code Clubs their knowledge and skill sets while languages. We now have projects in million unique users used making projects they enjoy. 26 languages on our site and we are n Developed and tested 3.5 our projects to learn in 2018 We want creating with technology continuing to develop this essential features within the projects to be for everyone, so our projects aspect of our content creation work. website to assist learners in projects on our site, allow people to learn within a completing projects 220 covering Scratch, range of contexts, whether they are Find a project to make at: HTML/CSS, Python, Raspberry Pi, curious about science experiments, rpf.io/learn n Developed and released four and other topics, and supporting wearables, home automation, high- new online training courses Code Club and CoderDojo tech pranks, or visual arts. If you Explore our Digital Making on the FutureLearn platform are interested in art and design, for Curriculum at: new projects example, then you can find projects rpf.io/curriculum n Upgraded all projects in the 29 in 2018 to create algorithmic modern art, Code Club Scratch Modules to make your own paint program in 1–3 and the CoderDojo translations of 36 projects Scratch, or to build 3D scenes using Scratch Sushi Cards to 563 on our site Blender; or if you love space, we Scratch 3 versions

Annual Review 2018 33 EDUCATOR SUPPORT We help computing and digital making educators in the UK and North America develop their skills through face-to-face training and through our magazine Hello World

icademy is our free face-to- the training so it is suitable for face training workshop in participants from all backgrounds: P which we support educators it’s accessible for beginners while to build the skills and confidence also providing opportunities for to create computing and digital participants with more technical making opportunities for young skills to stretch themselves. Our people. Computing and digital RCE community consists of a diverse making educators across the world range of educators, including school can access our free magazine Hello teachers catering for all ages, PICADEMY World for news, ideas, resources, librarians, museum educators, and best practices that benefit them university lecturers, youth workers, in their work with learners. and coding club volunteers. We encourage RCEs to create opportunities for their learners to Activities: explore open-ended projects and We run Picademy events in the learn through making. UK and North America, and the graduates become Raspberry Pi Certified Educators (RCEs) and join our worldwide RCE community. Picademy is a two-day workshop I left Picademy invigorated and inspired to keep during which educators learn tinkering and learning so I can introduce awesome from our experienced team and spend time collaborating and projects to my students and colleagues right away applying their skills to their own creative projects. We’ve designed Amanda Valledor, Boston, MA, Raspberry Pi Certified Educator

34 Annual Review 2018 More than Raspberry 2000 Pi Certified Educators across the world Achievements: n Ran 12 Picademy events in educators eight locations in the UK and 499 trained in 2018 North America: I teach Computing but I am not a Computer ◆ Atlanta, Georgia (USA) Certified Educators ◆ ●Jersey City, New have reached over Science teacher by trade, so I find this magazine Jersey (USA) a really useful tool. Good-quality articles, ◆ Seattle, Washington (USA) 150,000 ◆ ●Denver, Colorado (USA) young people in total teaching ideas, and support. Thank you ◆ ●Cambridge (UK) ◆ ●Dublin (ROI) Hello World subscriber subscribers ◆ ●Belfast (UK) 30,000 to Hello ◆ ●Leicester (UK) World Magazine n Grew the RCE community of Hello World in North America by 68% 58% subscribers feel from 478 to 791, with a 37% more able to teach others increase in the number computer skills since they of applications to the started reading the magazine programme (1401 applicants in total) of Picademy North 100% America graduates n Doubled the number of say they would recommend the subscribers to Hello World program to a colleague from 15,000 to 30,000

Annual Review 2018 35 ONLINE TRAINING Our online training help tens of thousands of educators and volunteers to build their skills and confidence to teach computing and digital making

ur free online training the course content encourages them takes the form of short, to take a ‘learning through making’ O structured courses that approach in their teaching. School guide participants through activities teachers build what they take away designed to build and deepen their from our courses into their lessons. understanding of a particular area of Educators in other settings, such as computing education. museums and youth organisations, use what they have learned to set up extracurricular activities: Code Activities: Clubs, CoderDojos, or Raspberry We build our courses around Jams. We also provide specific video and written content, with courses for people who are looking for accessible explanations of concepts support with setting up Code Clubs and practical activities that or CoderDojos. participants can use with the young people they teach. The courses Find out more about our educator are social spaces where educators training at: rpf.io/train and volunteers can discuss their experiences. These discussions allow participants to share common challenges and solutions, and to I’ve learned how easy and fun it can be to teach programming to children. connect with educators who are working with similar age groups or in And also how fun it is to create projects where we can interact with the similar settings. environment, such as lighting LEDs or using buttons Participants take the concepts and activities from our courses back to Participant in our online training the young people they work with, and

36 Annual Review 2018 Courses available: n Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python

n How Computers Work: Demystifying Computation

n Programming 101: An Introduction to Python for Educators

n Programming 102: Think Like a Computer Scientist

n Representing Data with Images and Sound: Bringing Data to Life

n Object-oriented Programming in Python: Create Your Own Adventure Game learners 27,000 participating in n Teaching Programming in our online training courses in 2018 I’ve learned how to transform my Primary Schools ideas into code, and I’ve learned free courses n Scratch to Python: Moving fundamental concepts which I hadn’t 11 available from Block- to Text- grasped before – especially what based Programming of learners say they variables are. I want to include more 74% have improved n Prepare to Run a Code Club their programming skills learning activities that involve coding in my teaching n Build a Makerspace for of learners say they have Young People become more confident in 69% Participant in our online training their computing skills n Start a CoderDojo Club

Annual Review 2018 37 RESEARCH Our research helps us to understand how people learn about computing and digital making, and how we can make the most difference to them

t the Raspberry Pi Foundation we are strongly A focused on measuring the impact we are having and on making sure that we understand how people best learn skills for computing and digital making.

Activities: Our research team collaborates with staff across the Foundation to make sure we are basing our educational programmes on sound evidence, using data to understand our impact, and trialling new approaches to learning. We get feedback from volunteers and participants, and we work with academics and educators to better understand how people learn. We publish and freely share our work so that others can benefit from our findings.

Download our research reports at rpf.io/research Finding insights into computing and digital making

38 Annual Review 2018 Achievements: n Interviewed children from across the world at Coolest Projects International, and shared the stories of their projects

n Visited Code Clubs across England to understand how different groups of children get involved in this programme

n Visited CoderDojos across Ireland to build our understanding of how people are using resources and Research publications: organising their Dojos We publish our research on the Foundation website, including: Research helps us understand n Coordinated our annual surveys so that we are n How Children Make how people participate and collecting comparable data Digital Projects learn in computing and digital across our programmes n Who Comes to Code Club? making and the impact our n Trialled new approaches to work has tracking progress through n Embedding Picademy Learning projects with Code Clubs in Schools n Collaborated with the n Raspberry Pi Computers Behavioural Insights in Schools Team to trial different communications across n Results of our annual surveys our programmes

Annual Review 2018 39 RASPBERRY PI PRESS Raspberry Pi Press supports and builds the community through resources and publications that showcase projects, share ideas, and help people learn from each other

aspberry Pi Press is dedicated resources, projects, and news. Our magazines Our magazines to entertaining and educating Raspberry Pi Press currently on YouTube R the Raspberry Pi community publishes six magazine titles, The MagPi as well as the wider computing catering for a wide range of people magpi.cc The MagPi – news and making communities by who like to make and create using and reviews from our sharing relevant information, digital technologies. Hello World community magazine: helloworld.cc rpf.io/magpiyoutube

HackSpace magazine HackSpace magazine people read hsmag.cc — meet our magazine 300,000 Raspberry for makers: rpf.io/ Pi Press magazines each month Wireframe hackspaceyoutube Entertaining and educating wfmag.cc views of Wireframe — meet the Raspberry Pi and the 600,000 magazine Custom PC the new magazine websites every month wider computing and making custompc.co.uk that lifts the lid on communities with information, video games: rpf.io/ subscribers to our Digital SLR Photography wireframeyoutube 2,000 new magazine resources, projects, and news digitalslrphoto.com Wireframe in two months relevant to them

40 Annual Review 2018 Achievements: n Launched Wireframe, n Acquired two magazine titles at n Launched the Official Raspberry n Published the Code Club Book a fortnightly magazine the start of 2019, bringing Custom Pi Beginner’s Guide to take people of Scratch, the first-ever that lifts the lid on PC and Digital SLR Photography from setting up their Raspberry Pi to Code Club book. Build games, video games into our publishing business taking their first steps into writing animations, and interactive code, digital making, and computing stories with Scratch

Annual Review 2018 41 NATIONAL CENTRE FOR COMPUTING EDUCATION The National Centre for Computing Education supports the teaching of computing in schools and colleges across all Key Stages in England, giving teachers the subject knowledge and skills to establish computing as a core part of the curriculum

n 2018 the Raspberry Pi Activities: to them, including face-to-face and Foundation, STEM Learning, The NCCE was established in late online professional development I and the British Computer 2018 and has already begun providing activities. They can also access a Society formed a consortium which support for teachers and students. diagnostic tool that helps them to successfully bid for a government The Raspberry Pi Foundation is prioritise the subject areas they contract to establish the National leading the digital side of the NCCE, want to focus on and to select the Centre for Computing Education providing online resources and appropriate training from among (NCCE). Through the NCCE, training, as well as developing and the options we offer. Teachers we will provide high-quality running the website. In partnership can earn certificates recognising support to teachers in England, with the University of Cambridge, we their achievement in completing including face-to-face professional are also building a platform to host a certain number of training development, online training, online learning resources for A-level modules, including face-to-face and regional support, and free resources. teachers and their students. online training. Generous bursaries for schools Teachers can now sign up for an will help teachers to engage with account on the NCCE website and Find out more about the NCCE at: these opportunities. browse the opportunities available teachcomputing.org

We support the teaching of computing in schools and colleges across all Key Stages, giving teachers the subject knowledge and skills to establish computing as a core part of the curriculum

42 Annual Review 2018 LEARNING PARTNERSHIP

Funding period: 2018–2021 Project funding: £1,000,000

aspberry Pi and Google.org on these courses in 2018, along with “Whatever school they attend or If you’d like to support us with a began working together in thousands more from outside the what field they plan to go into, every grant or donation, please email R 2013 to engage young people UK. 75% of active learners said that student should have the opportunity [email protected] with computer science education. taking part in their course improved to understand the principles and Since 2017, the focus of our their programming skills, and 69% practices of computing. This will collaboration has been on training said that taking part improved their broaden their career opportunities teachers. In 2018 we began a three- confidence in their computing skills. and is critical to developing a year partnership to significantly Our goal is to have 20 curriculum- globally competitive workforce for increase the subject and pedagogy relevant courses available, and to the 21st century.” knowledge, as well as the confidence, have reached at least 6000 teachers, of Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 by the end of 2021. Computing teachers in England. Google staff members also support This partnership has led to us our work by voluntarily donating The main thing I have learnt is the use launching seven new online courses their time to help run Code Clubs in 2018, including How Computers and Dojos, and to translate our of a creative approach to using physical Work: Demystifying Computation, online projects. computing – the idea of asking learners ‘what Programming 101: An Introduction to Ronan Harris, Google MD UK do you want to do with this button?’ rather Python for Educators, and Scratch to and Ireland, said: “Despite good Python: Moving from Block- to Text- progress in recent years, there is still than showing them how to just use a button based Programming. much more to do to ensure young 3000 teachers in England have people across the UK have access to Teacher participating in ‘Teaching Physical Computing registered and become active learners computer science education. with Raspberry Pi and Python’

Annual Review 2018 43 ANNUAL REVIEW

GOVERNANCE & PARTNERSHIPS

44 Annual Review 2018 GOVERNANCE The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-registered charity (1129409), formed as a company limited by guarantee

he Raspberry Pi Foundation Patron n Annika Small Co-founder, n Joe Scarboro COO, The is a UK-registered charity His Royal Highness the Duke of York CAST; Trustee, The John Bot Platform T (1129409), formed as a Ellerman Foundation and Access n Limor Fried Founder and company limited by guarantee. Foundation Engineer, Adafruit Industries The Foundation is governed by n Bill Liao Co-founder, CoderDojo; n Martha Lane Fox Founder and our Board of Trustees, who are Trustees General Partner, SOS Ventures Executive Chair, doteveryone; responsible for making sure we use n Christine Swan PGCE Secondary member of the House of Lords our resources well to achieve our n David Cleevely Co-founder, Computer Science tutor and n Matthew Postgate Chief charitable goals. Trustees give their Cambridge Angels visiting lecturer, Birmingham Technology and Products time freely as volunteers to support n Chris Mairs Venture Partner, City University Officer, BBC our work. Entrepreneur First n Clare Sutcliffe Co-founder, n Miles Berry Principal Lecturer for A wider group of Members supports n Caroline Brown Independent Code Club Computing Education, University the work of the Trustees. Members Director and Chair n David Willetts Executive of Roehampton are individuals with expertise in n Jon Drori Chair, Chairman, Resolution n Rosemary Francis Managing areas related to our mission, and Ravensbourne University Foundation; Visiting Professor, Director and CEO, Ellexus they volunteer their time as well. n Pete Lomas Director of King’s College London; Chair, n Rosemary Leith Founding Members advocate for our mission, Engineering, Norcott Technologies Sanger Institute; member of the Director, World Wide contribute to our strategy, and hold n Sherry Coutu Serial Entrepreneur, House of Lords Web Foundation the Foundation to account. The Investor, Advisor n Eben Upton CEO, Raspberry Pi n Sarah Wood Chair and Membership also elects new Trustees. n Tilly Blyth Head of Collections and Trading Ltd (Founding Member) Co-founder, Unruly David Braben, one of our Founding Principal Curator, Science Museum n Ian Livingstone Non-executive n Scott McGregor former President Members, and Louis Glass stepped Chairman, Sumo UK and CEO, Broadcom Corporation down as Trustees at our Annual n Jack Lang By-fellow and Director n Simon Peyton Jones Principal General Meeting in November 2018. Members of Studies in Management, Researcher, Microsoft UK; Chair, Both David and Louis have made Emmanuel College, Cambridge Computing At School significant contributions to the n Alan Mycroft Professor of (Founding Member) n Tim Peake British astronaut, success of the Foundation over many Computing, University of n James Whelton Co-founder, European Space Agency years, and we would like to thank Cambridge (Founding Member) CoderDojo them for their work. Caroline Brown n Andy Rice Senior Lecturer, n Jim Knight Chief Education and was elected to the Board of Trustees University of Cambridge Computer External Officer, TES; member of at the same meeting. Science Lab the House of Lords

Annual Review 2018 45 OUR PARTNERS he work of the Raspberry Pi donating their valuable time and Foundation is only possible expertise, by offering discounts, or by T because we are part of a lending in-kind support. fantastic and growing community that We would like to thank the shares our mission. This community following individuals and includes a wide range of individuals organisations for their support of the and organisations who support Raspberry Pi Foundation, Code Club, our work by providing funding, by and the CoderDojo Foundation:

£1 million and above £50,000 – £99,999 n Google n Blizzard Entertainment n The Shell Centenary n Broadcom Foundation Scholarship Fund n BT In-kind/software support £500,000 – £999,999 n Dogpatch Labs n Mythic Beasts Ltd n Riot Games 3CX, 15Five, Amazon Web £30,000 – £49,999 Services, Bullet, BrowserStack, £250,000 – £499,999 Bytemark, Bytes, CircleCI, Code n A&L Goodbody n Expo 2020 Dubai Climate, Contentful, Copper, DNS n Canary Wharf Ltd n Kevin Abosch/GIFTO Made Easy, Dropbox, dotmailer, n Liberty Global (Forever Rose) edgescan, Geekbot, GitHub, n n Microsoft LogMeIn Gravity Forms, Freshworks, n Norcott Technologies Heroku, Intercom, Laravel Forge, £100,000 – £249,999 LearnUpon, MailChimp, Mailtrap, n Arm Individuals also donate to us, for Papertrail, phpList, pi-top, Pivotal, n Atlassian Foundation example in the form of one-off PCA Predict, Proofpoint, RealVNC, n BNY Mellon donations, monthly payroll giving, RocketSpace, Sentry, Slack, n European Space Agency employer-matched charitable giving Typeform, Typekit, Webroot, n Oracle Giving schemes, and money raised through WhosOff, Wolfram Research, n Workday Foundation workplace fundraisers, conferences, Zapier, Zendesk, Zoom and other events.

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