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Annual Review 2016 1 ANNUAL REVIEW

2 Annual Review 2016 CONTENTS

About us 5

Introductions 7

Computers 10

Outreach 16

Learning 36

Governance and partnerships 52

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We put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world

4 Annual Review 2016 Our mission Our mission is to put the power of digital making into the hands of ABOUT US people all over the world. We think this is essential so that people are: he Raspberry Pi Foundation digital making. We develop free works to put the power resources to help people learn about n Capable of understanding of digital making into the computing and how to make things and shaping an increasingly T digital world hands of people all over the world. with computers. We train educators We believe this is important so who can guide other people to learn. n Able to solve the problems that more people are capable of Since launching our first product that matter to them, understanding and shaping our in February 2012, we have sold both as makers and increasingly digital world; able to 12 million Raspberry Pi computers entrepreneurs solve the problems that matter to and have helped to establish a n Equipped for the jobs of them; and equipped for the work of global community of digital makers the future the future. and educators. We provide low-cost, high- We use profits generated from our We pursue our mission through performance computers that people computers and accessories to pursue three main activities: use to learn, solve problems, and our educational goals. We also n We provide low-cost, have fun. We provide outreach receive funding and in-kind support high‑performance and education to help more from generous partners and donors computers that people use people access computing and who share our mission. to learn, to solve problems, and have fun n We make computing and digital making We believe this is important so that more more relevant and people are capable of understanding and accessible to more people through outreach and shaping our increasingly digital world educational programmes n We help people to learn about computing and how to make things with computers through resources and training

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The commercial success of Raspberry Pi continues to support our wider mission

6 Annual Review 2016 INTRODUCTION FROM THE CHAIRMAN DAVID CLEEVELY

n the five years since the first exceptional group of Trustees, Raspberry Pi was launched, this Directors, and Members, who make a Ilittle computer has gone further significant contribution to our work than we ever imagined. We have and advocate for our mission. In now sold more than 12 million November 2016 the Members elected devices, giving people all over the Tilly Blyth, the Head of Collections world access to affordable tools and Principal Curator at the Science to solve problems, help their Museum in London, to serve as a communities, and learn about Trustee. I am delighted to welcome computing and digital making. Tilly to the Board. I am consistently amazed by As you will see in this Annual the creativity and ingenuity the Review, 2016 has been a year of Raspberry Pi has unleashed. growth in the reach and impact The commercial success of of both our commercial business Raspberry Pi continues to support and our education activities. It our wider mission. Our educational has also seen major change in the programmes and materials have organisation, with many talented given many more people the people joining, and a significant opportunity and support to learn expansion of our educational work how to create with technology. in North America and Europe. It is my great privilege to chair With the strength of our team, our 2016 has been a year of growth in the the boards of both the Raspberry partners, and our community, I am Pi Foundation and Raspberry Pi confident that we will build on the reach and impact of both our commercial Trading Limited. We benefit from progress we made last year, and business and our education activities the expertise and wisdom of an achieve even more in 2017.

Annual Review 2016 7 INTRODUCTION FROM FOUNDATION CEO PHILIP COLLIGAN

am excited to share with you Pioneers, our first programme our latest Annual Review. By focused on getting more teenagers I any measure, the Raspberry involved in computing and Pi Foundation has enjoyed an digital making. We developed our outstanding 2016. At the start of first online training courses for the year, we had just launched a educators, and published a new free new strategy and direction for the magazine for educators. Foundation, completed a merger We’ve also worked hard to bring with Code Club, and started to build more rigour to our work, publishing the capacities and capabilities that our digital making curriculum, we needed. gathering feedback from users, and We ended 2016 with millions of working with independent partners people using our free educational to evaluate our programmes. resources; almost 1,000 Certified I’ve been delighted to see our Educators trained through community continue to grow. We Picademy; more than 2,000 primary have a large group of partners and school teachers inspired by our sponsors who provide resources Code Club Teacher Training; and and expertise to support our efforts. hundreds of thousands of young We continue to mobilise thousands people engaged in our programmes. of volunteers and community We have been busy developing members every week, who support partnerships and launching new our mission in so many ways. resources. Our space programme, I want to say a huge thank you to Astro Pi, has been extended to everyone who has contributed to our the whole of Europe. We launched work this year.

8 Annual Review 2016 Raspberry Pi has become an international INTRODUCTION phenomenon. Over the last FROM TRADING CEO five years we’ve sold units in EBEN UPTON 128 countries

his has been another Hebrew. The coming year will see incredible year for the the launch of our first original titles. T business of Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi has become an We launched the Pi 3 in February international phenomenon. Over 2016; already there are more than the last five years we’ve sold units 4 million in the wild. In April, we in 128 countries. Over 85 percent followed this with a new generation of Pi units are sold outside the UK, of visible-light and IR cameras, and with the US and Germany being our an updated Pi Zero with a camera largest export markets. connector. In October, we launched We’ve doubled the size of our our shiny new PIXEL desktop engineering staff, so we can design environment. To round things more hardware and software off, last week we released the $10 products. We’ve added editorial Raspberry Pi Zero W, which adds and design staff, to produce better wireless LAN and Bluetooth. support material. And we’ve started Our publishing efforts have gone to build a product management from strength to strength too: an team, to ensure Raspberry Pi is issue of The MagPi each month, available to more people, in more six new Essentials books, and a places, through more channels. second Projects book. A licensed For all that, so much of what we bi-monthly version of The MagPi do relies on you, the Raspberry is now available in Germany, and Pi community. With your help, we’ve launched our own 20-page we’re continuing to build a world translated MagPi Mini magazines where everyone has a chance to in French, Spanish, Italian, and understand the magic of computing.

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COMPUTERS

We provide low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems, and have fun

10 Annual Review 2016 THE RASPBERRY PI COMPUTER

he Raspberry Pi computer free access to some of the world’s the Zero has been launched in February 2012 with most powerful educational software. incredibly popular T what now seems the modest this year. It soon grew goal of improving the applications to Baking a new Pi a camera connector, study computer science at Cambridge The Raspberry Pi computer keeps on perfectly timed to take University. We thought we might sell evolving, and 2016’s Raspberry Pi 3 is advantage of the new and ten thousand units, and encourage the most ambitious board yet. With improved eight-megapixel Raspberry some more young people to develop 50 percent more computing power Pi camera, launched this year. their computing skills before than its predecessor, it’s a low-cost Building your own wildlife cameras, university. With 12 million of our computer that can be used to learn, home-made security systems low-cost, high-power computers now and to build increasingly demanding and photo booths has never been sold, and people of all ages across the projects. With the Chromium browser so accessible. With the launch of the world using them to learn and solve and LibreOffice included, it can even $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W in early 2017, problems in their lives, our goals have replace many people’s day-to-day our ultra-low-cost computer now has become even more ambitious. computers. Raspberry Pi 3 also has wireless LAN and Bluetooth, opening wireless LAN and on-board Bluetooth, up even more possibilities for mobile Hardware and software making internet-connected projects and Internet of Things projects. We work hard to make sure that and Internet of Things gadgets Raspberry Pi computers are as low- accessible without extra hardware. Creative projects cost as possible, giving access to high- We built the Raspberry Pi computer performance computing that people A computer for $5 for learning and creating, and use to learn, solve problems, and have One of our key aims is to make sure we continue to be amazed by the fun. We provide much more than that price is no barrier to learning, or ingenuity and technical skills shown affordable, powerful hardware. to using powerful computers. Nothing by the people who make Raspberry We also invest in open demonstrates this better than the $5 Pi projects. We see everything from software and work with Raspberry Pi Zero. First given away fun and quirky weekend projects to partners to provide with The MagPi magazine in 2015, those built to genuinely improve

Annual Review 2016 11 We’ve been really pleased to see industrial users take advantage of the Raspberry Pi computer’s low-cost, high-power package

the creators’ lives, the lives of their in the UK, and we continue to work relatives, and their communities. with the impressive Sony factory in We’ve been really pleased to see Pencoed, Wales. They currently make industrial users take advantage of the around 100,000 of our computers Raspberry Pi computer’s low-cost, every week, including the Raspberry high-power package. We launched Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi Zero W. As well our Compute Module back in 2014, as manufacturing our computers to a providing the main components of high quality, they ensure that all the the Pi system in a DDR2-SODIMM parts are sourced ethically and to the board resembling a stick of RAM. At highest environmental standards. the start of 2017, this was upgraded to match the power of the Raspberry Software Pi 3. Display manufacturer NEC has Access to hardware is important, but already taken advantage of this to software is often the unsung hero of integrate the Compute Module 3 into learning through making. We put a its large-format displays, designed lot of work into ensuring Raspberry for use in brightly lit public spaces Pi computers benefit from a suite of such as schools, offices, shops, and software that allows people to create railway stations. and learn. Every Pi computer can access Raspbian, our operating system A UK story that comes with educational software As with all our products, the new and tools. Raspbian experienced Raspberry Pi models and software are some big upgrades in 2016, the most designed in our UK HQ in Cambridge. visible being the brand new desktop The computers are also manufactured environment, PIXEL.

12 Annual Review 2016 PIXEL represents a complete visual ubiquitous in computing classrooms Our partnership with Dr Sam overhaul of the Raspbian desktop across the world. On our computers, Aaron at the University of Cambridge environment, and provides a user Scratch has been customised to allow Computer Lab has helped to continue experience that lives up to the power users to access GPIO pins and control the development of Sonic Pi. The of the current-generation computers. electronics in the physical world, so latest version allows Pi users, and In contrast with previous releases, even the youngest users can access those on other platforms who it isn’t just Raspberry Pi computers the potential of physical computing. download the free software, to code that benefit from the latest version The Python Software Foundation and create electronic music. of Raspbian. People with a PC or Mac is a great friend of ours, and we can now download or use The MagPi’s provide Python tools pre-installed. Digital making for everyone first cover DVD to run PIXEL on their Many libraries have been developed People all over the world are using machines, along with most of the by the Raspberry Pi community to Raspberry Pis to make, learn, and educational software designed for use improve access to the features of have fun. Simple projects often act on the Raspberry Pi. our computers. as gateways to complex creations, It’s not just our software that Wolfram provides a free version solving problems in users’ homes and Simple projects provides opportunities for learning of Mathematica, its mathematics communities. Creative computing often act as and fun on the Raspberry Pi computer. program, and access for Raspberry gives people extraordinary agency. We’ve partnered with some of the Pi users to the Wolfram Language. Once the door to that kind of potential gateways world’s biggest software companies Microsoft allows our users to is opened, they go on to learn and to complex to provide their tools as part of the customise worlds of Minecraft make things that continue to surprise Raspberry Pi version of Raspbian, blocks in a version of the game that and delight us. Children, young people creations, solving and the PC and Mac versions where interacts with Python code. Thanks and adults are getting their first taste problems in licences allow. to our partnership with Oracle, we of the power of technology, then users’ homes and Scratch, MIT’s block-based can provide the Java development learning and building their skills using programming language, has become environments Greenfoot and BlueJ. Raspberry Pi computers. communities

Annual Review 2016 13 RASPBERRY PI POWERED PROJECTS

Heartfelt Technologies Making and baking Startup Heartfelt Technologies has If 2016 was the year of the Internet We love projects created an early warning system of Things, it was also the year like this that are for people at risk of heart failure. of baking. Software The system can detect changes engineer and YouTuber light-hearted or before an emergency situation Estefannie brought these quirky, with the develops, potentially preventing two trends together with heart failures and emergency trips her Smart Gingerbread aim of having to hospital. Heart failure is the most House project, and like all fun and learning common form of hospitalisation for good makers and bakers people over 65, so this project could also she shared her code and something new save the NHS billions at the same time. A box her recipes online. Now sits next to the patient’s bed, using seven cameras, others can create their own seven Raspberry Pi computers, and modified facial smartphone-controlled, recognition software to check their feet for any swelling or motorised gingerbread changes each morning. Focusing on the feet is a proven way masterpiece, complete with of detecting cardiovascular changes, and has the benefit of being smartphone-controlled front relatively unobtrusive and of preserving patients’ privacy. Medical door and dancing gingerbread men. professionals and the patient are notified of any changes that might cause We love projects like this that are concern. These can often be addressed with a pill well before a more dangerous light-hearted or quirky, with the and costly incident could occur. Heartfelt’s device has been through NHS aim of having fun and learning testing and is already starting to be used with patients. something new.

Read more at rpf.io/heartfelt Read more at rpf.io/baking

14 Annual Review 2016 Pi-powered homes 2016 was the year the Internet of Things started to go mainstream, with Amazon and Google both launching major connected home solutions. Before Amazon’s voice-activated Echo arrived in the UK, hackers like Novaspirit got stuck into the provided API. They figured out how to get their Raspberry Pis to talk to the Alexa service, allowing them to speak their requests to their homebrew Echo. Combined with other home-based projects, hacks like this open up huge possibilities for a Raspberry Pi- Pocket FM in Syria powered smart home. With a handful of low-cost computers and some The Raspberry Pi computer was project time, you could control your lights and household appliances, or designed to allow people freedom even create an on-demand romantic fire and music combo, as demonstrated of expression, and Media in by Redditor and Raspberry Pi user Hovee. Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) and the Syrnet group of radio The Raspberry Read more at rpf.io/echo and rpf.io/fireside stations have taken this to new frontiers. The Pocket FM portable Pi computer radio transmitter is based on a was designed Raspberry Pi computer, and can be powered from a car battery or to allow people solar panel. In a country where freedom of it can be both technically and politically challenging to build expression larger transmitters, Pocket FM is allowing the broadcast of a wide range of voices and ideas, reaching 1.5 million citizens in north and north-western Syria. In a war zone, radio can be one of the easiest ways to get information. If the power grid is down, broadcasters and listeners can switch to batteries. These bold people are doing something extraordinary. We hope for a swift end to the conflict.

Read more at rpf.io/pocketfm

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OUTREACH

We make computing and digital making relevant and accessible through outreach and educational programmes

16 Annual Review 2016 ASTRO PI

stro Pi is a series of International Space Station. The competitions that give young data generated by the experiments A people the opportunity was downloaded from the Raspberry to design experiments and write Pi units and sent back to Earth by programs that will run on the Tim Peake for analysis, and we International Space Station (ISS). In encouraged other young people to 2015 we worked with the UK Space analyse and learn from the data. Agency (UKSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and other partners A musical competition to space-harden two Raspberry Pi In 2016 we ran a second Astro Pi computers and send them to the competition. The theme was inspired ISS. Now children all over Europe by Tim Peake, who faced challenges have the opportunity to have their when updating his MP3 player on code run in space. the ISS. We asked young people to program the Astro Pi computers to act Winning code in space as MP3 players, and to create original Our first Astro Pi competition ran music using Sonic Pi for him to listen in 2015, so in 2016 we worked with to. The winning eight teams had their UKSA, ESA, and British ESA astronaut code run in space in May 2016. Tim Peake to run the winning science experiments and games on the Read more at astro-pi.org

Annual Review 2016 17 This year we worked hard to make Astro Pi accessible to even more young people Space-Byrds from Thirsk School

Making Astro Pi use on the ISS. We worked with our more accessible partners at Trinket, and community This year we worked hard to member Dave Jones, to release make Astro Pi accessible to even on-screen emulators of the Astro more young people. The Astro Pi Pi units. This helped to make the computers were tested and qualified competition accessible for young to connect to the Joint Station LAN people who don’t have access to the on the ISS, allowing us to connect hardware, and allowed anyone to directly to them from Earth. This develop and test their code. means we can upload young people’s In total, 347 UK schools code and download their results in participated directly in the first future without having to use as much two Astro Pi competitions, with valuable crew time. many more benefiting from the Anyone with a Raspberry Pi educational resources, activities, computer and Sense HAT board has and outreach that were part of the British ESA astronaut Tim Peake the same hardware that astronauts wider programme.

18 Annual Review 2016 Videos Astro Pi across Europe Astro Pi has generated some In the second half of 2016, we fantastic video content, including launched Astro Pi in all states that some actually filmed in space. are members of ESA, as part of the 250 teams from Take a look at the videos at the mission of French ESA astronaut 15 countries are links below: Thomas Pesquet to the ISS. Once again, we have challenged school now developing n Tim Peake with the Astro PI students to invent new scientific programs units, filmed on board the ISS: experiments using the sensors on rpf.io/timpeakevideo the Astro Pi unit. The competition that have the n A series of cartoons opened in October 2016. 250 chance to run teams from 15 countries are now explaining the story of Astro developing programs that have the on the ISS Pi, narrated by Fran Scott: chance to run on the ISS, with the rpf.io/astropicartoons winners due to be announced in n The winners of the first Astro early March 2017. Pi competition: rpf.io/astropiwinners Above Desktop Sense HAT emulator

Annual Review 2016 19 PIONEERS

owards the end of 2016 groups, and our own pilot maker day we launched a brand new at the brilliant Cambridge Makespace. T programme to inspire teenagers All of this research was used to shape to get involved with computing and our plans for the programme. digital making. Pioneers is a series of The programme is designed around challenges that encourage twelve- to the three seasons that coincide 15-year-olds to form teams and make with school terms in the UK. Each their ideas, sharing with and learning season is given a broad theme with from each other. an open-ended challenge, aimed at inspiring young people to get Developing Pioneers creative with technology. We have To develop Pioneers, we spent time designed Pioneers so that it is open talking to teenagers to find out their to any existing groups or meet-ups, interests, what they want, and how like CoderDojos or school-based they like to be talked to. We also technology clubs. We also hope consulted adult mentors and other that it will encourage new clubs to organisations like CoderDojo, who get started. already provide opportunities for We provide resources, inspiration, teenagers to get involved in digital and money-can’t-buy prizes for the making. We ran surveys and focus most inspiring and interesting entries.

20 Annual Review 2016 The only requirement is that the team forward to seeing the projects the has to actually make their idea, and teams put together. Future themes The shape of Pioneers that they submit a video documenting will be unveiled as the year goes on. We want the n Teams of twelve- to what they did. Pioneers targets an audience 15-year-olds make teams to share Social media is an important underserved by activities that engage their ideas part of teenagers’ lives, and it’s an them in digital making, and we will n Adult mentors guide what they’re important part of Pioneers too. We be closely following the impact of and support making across want the teams to share what they’re the programme. We have set up pilot n making across social media, using the groups to provide us with regular Themed, open-ended, and social media, hashtag #MakeYourIdeas on Twitter, feedback. We will engage with creative challenges using the hashtag Instagram, and Facebook. There has participants on social media to follow n Projects shared on #MakeYourIdeas been lots of buzz already, with more and share the Pioneers projects, social media than 250 teams registering their and the learning that young people n Kudos, respect, money- on Twitter, interest for the first challenge before undertake. Pioneers is focused on can’t-buy prizes its launch. the UK to start with, but developing n Launched January 2017 Instagram, and the programme at this scale will n Facebook Looking forward give us the experience to support an Generously sponsored 2017 is when Pioneers is officially international launch. by The Shell Centenary launched, with the first challenge Scholarship Fund revealed in January. We are looking Read more at rpf.io/pioneers

Annual Review 2016 21 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGISTS It has truly been a life-changing journey, and I pril 2016 saw the culmination acrobatics generated accompanying their professional development. feel especially of a year-long programme, music based on how and where it was Participants made progress in their privileged to A mentoring nine 16- to touched. A collaborative text-based skills in areas such as devising 21-year-olds to develop their skills adventure progressively illuminated and planning creative projects, have been a as Creative Technologists. After a multicoloured Perspex trophy in programming, and electronics. They months of field trips, mentoring response to tweets from players also learned lots about collaborating part of it sessions, and exploring ideas, the about the clues they found in the remotely, exploring professional participants created an exhibition of game. Visitors to the exhibition opportunities, and planning and Creative Technologist their work, which was showcased at were treated to interactive, Raspberry Pi’s offices in Cambridge. multimedia installations using a mix of computing, electronic, Interactive installations and physical elements. The Creative Technologists’ projects covered a wide range of themes and Learning creatively technologies. Augmented reality This programme was obviously fun, pop-up books presented the reader but the Creative Technologists also with animations, mapped to the rated the programme very highly paper cut-outs. A rope for aerial in terms of the impact it had on

22 Annual Review 2016 running an exhibition. Four of to build on their experience by taking the participants submitted their up related studies at university. work to the Arts Council England The Raspberry Pi Creative and achieved the Gold Arts Award, Technologists have become which is recognised in the UCAS important members of the Raspberry system for university entrance. Pi community, acting as role models Four of the participants submitted their Many participants developed their for younger people, speaking at work to the Arts Council England and career ambitions, aiming for jobs in events, and exhibiting their work at creative technology, and two chose technology events such as MozFest. achieved the Gold Arts Award

Supporters Thanks to our supporters for their help with this programme:

n FutureEverything n Hellicar&Lewis n Pimoroni n Saladhouse n V&A Digital Programmes n Writers’ Centre Norwich

Annual Review 2016 23 One of the goals of the programme is to WEATHER enable schools with Weather Stations to STATION share their data with other schools

n partnership with Oracle, we’ve Pi-based weather stations. 162 of been bringing the experience of these schools are part of the Oracle Imeteorological monitoring to Academy programme, supported schools all over the world, while by Oracle to develop their students’ also helping thousands of young computer science skills. people to learn about computing and digital making. In 2015 we developed Sharing and a Weather Station kit with sensors analysing data to monitor nine environmental One of the goals of the programme processes. These measurements is to enable schools with Weather were to be logged to a cloud-based Stations to share their data with other Oracle database. schools, including those without In 2016 we shipped the kits to a Raspberry Pi Weather Station, 860 schools in 72 countries, and so that young people can learn to Students at Bradford Weather Station at Grammar School, UK students from Chile to China have analyse large sets of data. We’ve been Wallace High School, UK been building their own Raspberry working with Oracle and Explorer UK

24 Annual Review 2016 Eastlea Community School Students from the computing club at Eastlea Community School in London, UK, set up their Weather Station and installed it in a small garden on the school grounds. They worked with their teacher, Mr Richards, to adapt Weather stations the Weather Station to their local all over the world environment, adding a battery, a solar panel, and wireless connectivity for its database connection. The students worked out how much power they would need, how much the sun could provide in all weathers, and how to store this power using a battery: just the kind of to build an online database, which is Station hardware, allowing many opportunities offered by their problem-solving the Raspberry now being used by almost 300 schools more schools to get involved in Weather Stations. Pi computer was invented to to capture and share their data. the project. We will continue to develop encourage. The school Weather We have produced 13 educational resources to help many more Station is now ready to be used in resources to support learning about 2017 forecast schools to participate in the lessons with other students, and computing through exploring the Over the coming year, we will programme, by analysing the data there are plans to add a camera to weather. Four of these can be used continue to support these or through building their own monitor wildlife and vegetation without the dedicated Weather schools to make the most of the Weather Stations. in the future.

Students and staff at Liceo 1 Javiera Carrera school, Chile

Annual Review 2016 25 This year we reached a major milestone in the UK, with more than 5,000 active clubs CODE CLUB by the end of 2016

ode Club is a network of International, we are developing volunteer- and teacher-led partnerships with not-for-profit C after-school coding clubs organisations in countries across that take place in schools, libraries, the world, to spread the model to and community venues across the their communities. world. Code Club is powered by an enormous community of volunteers Code Club UK and educators, who use our projects This year we reached a major and educational resources to help milestone in the UK, with more than children learn how to make things 5,000 active clubs by the end of 2016. with computers. This means that more than 75,000 In the UK, we directly support children aged nine to eleven take the network of Code Clubs, building part in Code Club each week. That’s a the movement, connecting net growth of more than 2,200 clubs venues to volunteers, providing since the start of 2016. training, running competitions, We’ve done a lot of work this and helping the community in any year to really get to grips with our way we can. Through Code Club data. We are confident about the

26 Annual Review 2016 Code Club Hong Kong

numbers of active clubs; we know Supporting Champions, which recognises some that 40 percent of the children the community of our most outstanding volunteers. attending Code Clubs are girls; and Along with the growth of Code Clubs They represent us at events, support we know that Code Clubs happen in the UK, we’ve increased our support others on our forums, and help us to in schools that serve communities for the community of volunteers, spread the word about Code Club. with a wide range of socio-economic educators, and parents. Our regional Code Club has always been a global backgrounds. We have also seen teams of Code Club co‑ordinators are movement. There are now 9,000 rapid growth in clubs meeting in fantastically active, organising meet- clubs registered in ten countries. community venues, such as libraries. ups and attending events. We are also A large part of that growth depends Ten percent of clubs now meet in using Twitter, Google+ communities, on the network of partners who non-school venues. and other social media to connect with lead the growth of Code Club Reach is important, but what Code Clubs and share best practice. communities in their countries. really matters is what happens in We have expanded our Star We have thriving communities in a Code Club, and whether children Clubs initiative, with many more Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, are learning meaningful skills. We outstanding clubs committing to share Ukraine, Canada, and France. This will shortly be publishing the results their expertise to help the Code Club year we launched country-wide pilot of an independent randomised community. They do so by offering programmes with three new partner trial undertaken by the National opportunities for potential new organisations: Code Club Hong Foundation for Educational Research volunteers to experience Code Club, Kong, Code Club Bangladesh, and (NFER), assessing the impact of hosting visits from VIPs, offering their Programerko in Croatia. Australia Code Club. We want to build on these space for training, and helping to build was the first country after the UK findings to ensure that Code Club the community through online chats. to grow to more than 1,000 clubs, creates the best possible impact for We also launched a new thanks to the great work of Code the largest number of young people. programme of Code Club Club Australia.

Annual Review 2016 27 Code Clubs across the UK

We launched an improved website understand what they have learned for Code Club International, and so far, and how they can build their translated our projects into eight skills even further. The children’s new languages including Korean enthusiasm has and Croatian. Read more at codeclub.org.uk and codeclubworld.org been brilliant and Code Club in 2017 they have been Code Club is now one of the largest networks of coding clubs in the proud of what they Club supporters world, and our ambition is to move Code Club receives support in the form of grants and donations from a range have achieved. closer to our goal of a Code Club in of trusts, foundations, businesses, and individuals, in order to reach so many every community. We will continue children around the UK. Some have taken to support the growth of Code Club n Lloyds Banking Group matched its generous donation to Code Club in the UK, focusing particularly these skills and in 2016 with a commitment to encourage IT employees at the firm to on more deprived communities, volunteer with Code Club, as part of the company’s Digital Champions produced some and internationally through our scheme. By the end of the year, more than 400 employees had network of partners. We will also fabulous work signed up. do much more to understand what n at home is working in existing clubs, and ARM’s continued support for Code Club allowed us to better to share best practice between understand the programme’s reach and impact. Code Club Teacher clubs. We are also looking at how n The Platten Family Fund at the Community Foundation Tyne & Wear to track children’s progress, so and Northumberland helped Code Club to engage with more schools that they and their club organisers and new volunteers in the North East of England.

28 Annual Review 2016 Jam makers workshop

COMMUNITY

he Raspberry Pi Foundation many others. A lot of our work is about computing and digital making. is primarily a community focused on helping that community Jams come in different shapes and A lot of our work T organisation. We are part of to grow and supporting them to do sizes, but will typically involve makers is focused on a movement of makers, educators, great things. showcasing their projects, sharing parents, and young people, who their ideas, and learning from other helping that share our mission to empower people Raspberry Jams makers. Jams are always welcoming community through digital technologies. The Raspberry Jams are community-led to beginners. We hear lots of stories community includes the volunteers events that provide an opportunity for of people of all ages who’ve been to grow and educators who run Code Clubs; people to get together people who run Raspberry Jams and and learn other events; resellers and creators of add-ons who provide the tools that makers need; members of our forums who offer user support and the moderators who help organise them; bloggers and YouTubers who share projects and ideas to inspire others to get into making; makers who share their projects on social media; and

Annual Review 2016 29 Map of Jams Raspberry Jam events have taken place all over the world in 2016.

introduced to the world of digital Jams at the Bett education technology informed discussions that forum making at a Raspberry Jam. show and The Digital Garage members enjoy. There were 320 Jams from 27 in Glasgow. The forums provide a range of There were countries registered on our website support areas. Beginners can spend in 2016, and many more that took The Raspberry Pi Forums time getting to know Raspberry Pi 320 Jams from place as part of hackathons and other The forums at raspberrypi.org are computers, while experts have the 27 countries events. 200 were in the UK, 51 in the the go-to place for anyone looking chance to discuss in-depth technical USA, and ten in Taiwan. for help with their projects, to discuss issues. There are areas for different registered on The Raspberry Pi Foundation has new products and tools, and to get categories of projects, including our website in always helped to promote Raspberry to know other enthusiasts. There Jams. This year we have been working are now more than 1 million posts 2016, and many with the Raspberry Jam community to and 191,000 members active on the more that took develop ideas for providing practical forums. The forums are frequented support, including a playbook by experienced community members, place as part of for Raspberry Jams that was co- Raspberry Pi engineers and staff, hackathons and created with the community. We’ve and people who are new to making. also started to run our own Jams, They are moderated by community other events including a new monthly meet-up members, who work hard to support at our Cambridge office, and pop-up the positive atmosphere and well-

30 Annual Review 2016 SOCIAL MEDIA STATSAs of Feb 2017 TWITTER YOUTUBE RASPBERRY_PI RASPBERRY PI 324k 14k FOLLOWERS SUBSCRIBERS

Code Club has made regular use of Twitter INSTAGRAM chats: scheduled hour-long discussions RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION based around a hashtag 45k FOLLOWERS automation and robotics; and with members sharing projects, graphics, sound, and multimedia. The spreading the word about events, areas for specific pieces of hardware, connecting community members, FACEBOOK RASPBERRY PI such as the Raspberry Pi Camera and encouraging new people to get Module, provide support for makers. involved with the movement. Users of specific programming The #picademy tag was created on languages can seek out fellow coders Twitter to share experiences during for help, or for discussions of the our teacher training events. It has 252k LIKES details of the language. grown to become a tool for educators to continue to connect and share their Social media ideas. Code Club has made regular use GOOGLE+ RASPBERRY PI Social media is an important tool of Twitter chats: scheduled hour-long for engaging with the Raspberry discussions based around a hashtag, Pi community. We have large and designed to give volunteers a chance MILLION growing communities on Twitter, to meet each other, ask questions, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, and share ideas. Our new Pioneers 1.06 FOLLOWERS

Annual Review 2016 31 programme uses the hashtag events at the Houses of Parliament, Raspberry Jams. We will be running #MakeYourIdeas to encourage young hosted by Matt Hancock MP; and regional meet-ups for community people to share their in-progress at St James’s Palace, hosted by our event organisers, and offering projects for discussion and support. patron, Prince Andrew, Duke of York. training in event planning. We will continue to create online materials, Celebrating the The future including website templates and contribution of This year, we will continue to marketing materials, to help community members support our community to do great organisers to spread the word about We are always trying to find ways things. We will be meeting with their events. to celebrate and thank the amazing event organisers at our birthday We are constantly looking community that supports our party to discuss how we can best to improve our support for the mission. Projects and contributions support them, and producing a people who contribute to our are showcased on our blog and in our playbook to help people to start new amazing community. community magazine, The MagPi. This year we were also able to say thank you in person to hundreds Community members who have made some of our volunteers, makers, and educators. Community members of the biggest contributions were invited to who have made some of the biggest special events at the Houses of Parliament contributions were invited to special

32 Annual Review 2016 EVENTS AND OUTREACH

ur aim is to introduce more at these events as interactive as people to computing and possible. We provide workshops and Odigital making, and to practical demonstrations, allowing grow the movement for computer people to have a go at digital making science education. In support of and to write their first line of code. this aim, we’ve been attending We also provide information about events, meeting people, and getting started with Raspberry Pi providing hands-on experience of computers and getting involved digital making. in our educational programmes. This year we engaged tens of Engineers and members of the thousands of people through a series Foundation are on hand to talk of events, primarily in the UK and to people about their questions the USA. We make our presence and ideas.

This year we engaged tens of thousands of people through a series of events, primarily in the UK and the USA

Annual Review 2016 33 Outreach events Bett Show American Library Association n London, UK (January) Annual Conference n More than 34,000 educators n Orlando, USA (June) at the annual education n 8,000 library professionals technology event discussing the learning opportunities they provide to Raspberry Pi events The Big Bang Fair with the UK their communities in 2016 Space Agency Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend n Birmingham, UK (March) The Royal Cornwall Show n Cambridge, UK (March) n 70,000 seven- to 19-year-olds n Cornwall, UK (June) n More than 1,500 people at and their parents and teachers, n 125,000 people, 500 cattle, and Cambridge Computer Lab celebrating STEM 1,500 sheep celebrating rural Royal Institution Astro Pi The Gadget Show Live life in the UK Masterclasses n Birmingham, UK (March) n Bedfordshire, Exeter, and ISTE n 75,000 technology and Newcastle, UK (Feb-May) n Denver, USA (June) gadget fans n Expert-led classes on Astro Pi n 16,000 educators and education programming in partnership SX Create technology professionals with local schools n Austin, USA (March) n 10 Million Pis Celebration 72,000 creative visitors at the hardware hacking and maker n London, UK (September) arm of the SXSW conference n A milestone in our sales, celebrated at the House USA Science & Engineering Festival of Commons n Washington DC, USA (April) n Workshops run by Raspberry Pi n 365,000 visitors to this festival Foundation staff, community to engage and inspire young members and Creative people in STEM Technologists

Thanking the community Maker Faire Bay Area n n London, UK (November) San Mateo, USA (May) n n 150,000 makers of all kinds Celebrating the achievements Raspberry Pi community of our community members at sharing their builds, ideas, members at St James’s Palace St James’s Palace and inspiration

34 Annual Review 2016 Camp Bestival Silver Spring Mini Maker Faire World Maker Faire New York n Dorset, UK (July) n Silver Spring, USA (September) n Queens, USA (October) n Family-focused festival, n Supporting young makers at n 90,000 makers from across the attended by 30,000 parents Mini Maker Faires in their local world sharing their projects and and children cities to share their creations exploring new ideas and be inspired Big Bang Fair North West Google’s Digital Garage XperiBIRD.be launch with Google.org n n Liverpool, UK (July) Port Talbot, UK (November) n Belgium (September) n n A celebration of STEM at the A two-day workshop event to Liverpool Exhibition Centre n Launch of the Royal Belgian support the local community Institute of Natural Sciences after the loss of jobs in the steel Scratch Conference initiative to develop a bird industry in the area n Cambridge, USA (August) nesting observation network Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire by distributing nest boxes with n Biannual conference for the cameras to schools n All over the USA (November) Scratch programming languages

Scottish Learning Festival Exhibition PyCon UK n Glasgow, UK (September) n Cardiff, UK (September) n 52,000 educators from n Talks and workshops from across Scotland Foundation staff at this annual event for the Python Mozilla Festival programming language n London, UK (October) n 1,600 champions of the open web

Annual Review 2016 35 ANNUAL REVIEW 2 16 LEARNING

We help people to learn about computing and how to make things with computers through resources and training

36 Annual Review 2016 PICADEMY

icademy is a free, two-day that educators can bring to the course in computing and young people they work with. P digital making for educators. Picademy also aims to introduce Graduates become Raspberry educators to the process of learning Pi Certified Educators, with the through making. On the second skills and confidence to lead the day the educators work in teams movement for computing and to make their own digital projects, digital making in education. giving them the chance to directly Picademy is designed to be cross- experience our project-based curricular: 42 percent of teachers learning approach. on our courses teach computing as their main subject, 14 percent Growing the community are generalist primary school This year the Picademy programme teachers, and others focus on trained 514 teachers, which more other subjects such as science and than doubled the size of the design technology. community of Certified Educators. The course is packed with This brings the total community to workshops on computing concepts, almost 1,000 educators, who work hardware and software tools, and with an estimated 70,000 children a range of practical applications and young people every year.

Annual Review 2016 37 Google generously sponsored the Foundation in Baltimore, and their enthusiastic students with UK Picademy program in 2016. With the Texas Advanced Computing extracurricular opportunities for its support, we were able to deliver Center in Austin) for their learning computing. In addition, Picademy sessions across the UK. generous support. 32 percent use what they learned at Sixteen events took place at Google Picademy as part of a unit of work Garage venues including London, Impact they provide, and 36 percent have Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, The first survey of all Raspberry Pi designed an entire topic or unit of and Liverpool. Certified Educators was run in July, work around Picademy content. We also launched Picademy in the achieving a 60 percent response Picademy is aimed at supporting USA, supporting President Obama’s rate. The survey has helped us to and creating leaders in digital commitment that every student understand the impact that our making education. We now know should have the opportunity to community of educators is having that 83 percent of participants are study computer science. We ran four as a result of their training. They passing on their learning to other events in the USA, which brought have also given us plenty of ideas professionals, influencing others together enthusiastic educators for improvements to the Picademy to bring digital making projects and helped to build their skills programme, which will allow us to into their classrooms. These and experience in maker-based provide them with better support professionals include colleagues in computer science learning. We are and training. their own organisation (71 percent), extremely grateful to our hosts From the survey, we know other organisations (39 percent), (the Computer History Museum in that many of our educators (42 and from other parts of the country Mountain View, the Digital Harbor percent of responses) provide (16 percent).

38 Annual Review 2016 Locations of our Certified Educators across the world

Moving forward initiatives to help them to have even Over the next year we will train more impact, learning not just from more than 600 new Certified us, but also from each other. Educators in the UK and USA. We will also be continuing to Read more at rpf.io/picademy develop our work with our existing network, helping them to build their own skills and those of other educators. One of the greatest resources for our Certified Educators is the network of other leaders in digital making education. We plan to strengthen this network, Picademy with opportunities to learn face- to-face, to share expertise online, is aimed at and to communicate in print in supporting and Hello World magazine. We now know much more about creating leaders how Certified Educators build in digital making what they learn at Picademy into their teaching. We are developing education

Annual Review 2016 39 SKYCADEMY

ne of the most powerful to the Earth, allowing the students about the process of launching a ways to engage young to experience the near-space flight balloon, assembled their own flight Opeople in digital making is in real time. Capturing your own computer and balloon setup, and through cross-curricular projects photograph of the curvature of the carried out a launch. that combine science, computing, earth is both a powerful rebuttal of The educators returned to their maths, and more. In Skycademy, we the flat-earth theory and a fantastic schools with the knowledge, skills, help young people to send Raspberry way to inspire young people to get and all of the equipment they needed Pi computers to near space by creative with technology. to run launches with the young attaching them to helium-filled high people they work with. As the year altitude balloons. The equipment Educator training progresses, we are supporting them takes photographs and measures This year we trained 30 educators, to run launches with their students atmospheric data on a journey of who worked in teams with the across the country, inspiring them up to 40km into the atmosphere. support of high-altitude balloon with the possibilities of computing This data is transmitted live back pioneer Dave Akerman. They learned and digital making.

This year we trained 30 educators, who worked in teams with the support of high-altitude balloon pioneer Dave Akerman

40 Annual Review 2016 HAB launch equipment For any successful launch you need the right equipment, both in the air and on the ground. For our flights in the UK, we use:

In the air: n Helium weather balloon A student from Bourne Grammar school launches an HAB and parachute n Raspberry Pi (A+ or Zero) As the year n Raspberry Pi Camera Module progresses, we are n Pi in the Sky board (GPS supporting them tracking and UHF radio) n LoRa board (data to run launches communication over radio) with their On the ground: students across n Hardware or software radio (for the country receiving UHF) n Raspberry Pi and LoRa board (for communicating with the flight computer) n Tablet or computer (for decoding data) n Chase vehicle with mobile broadband

Annual Review 2016 41 CODE CLUB TEACHER TRAINING

omputing is still a new subject Club teacher training in 2016 has 2017 training for many primary schools. Our taken place in Google Garage venues, This year we will extend our support C Code Club teacher training including Manchester, Birmingham, for primary school teachers by helps to give primary school teachers Glasgow, and Newcastle. This has offering online courses on the the confidence they need to teach allowed us to reach teachers in FutureLearn platform. the computing curriculum. schools across the country. We will be working with our partners at BT, and our trained Building computing Reaching teachers volunteers, to reach even more confidence Some amazing volunteers have teachers through the BT Barefoot Our programme recruits volunteers worked with us this year, reaching 684 Programme. We are also developing who understand and care about teachers in the UK. These teachers more support for Raspberry Pi computer science, and trains work with more than 15,000 pupils Certified Educators in their work with them in a one-day workshop. Our in total. Code Club teacher training primary teachers in their local schools. trained volunteers then go into local also encourages schools to set up schools and work with any teachers their own Code Clubs. In one instance who have requested help with the a volunteer trainer delivered three Some amazing volunteers have computing curriculum. sessions to teachers from 15 local worked with us this year, reaching This programme has been schools in Newcastle. As a result, eight generously sponsored by Google. Code schools set up their own Code Clubs. 684 teachers in the UK

42 Annual Review 2016 ONLINE The courses Teaching Programming in Primary School: TRAINING n Comprehensive introduction to programming for non-subject specialists in four weeks ur face-to-face Picademy and Just like our face-to-face courses, n Key programming Code Club teacher training these courses offer a chance to concepts using Scratch and sessions have been incredibly learn, and to connect with other O unplugged activities popular, with an average of three like-minded educators. n Ideas for teaching pupils using applicants to every space. We want The courses are provided free on these concepts to reach even more educators than the FutureLearn platform. They We spent the we can meet in person, so we spent incorporate the expertise of our n Collaborative ethos: learning latter part of the latter part of 2016 developing education team, and our experience and discussing with other new, free online training courses from the many Picademy and Code educators and Raspberry Pi 2016 developing for educators. Club teacher training events we Foundation experts new, free online Both courses take the ‘learning have run to date. We’re excited training courses through making’ approach that about making our training available Teaching Physical Computing with runs through everything we do. to even more people, and about Raspberry Pi and Python: for educators Educators will work on practical expanding the impact to more n Four week introduction to activities and projects, share their young learners as a result. creating systems that respond to achievements and their challenges You can find our courses, and and control the physical world with others, and build their sign up to join the learning, n Develop knowledge of understanding through discussion. at rpf.io/futurelearn. programming and simple electronics. Write programs using Python and Raspberry Pi n Apply your knowledge and skills to challenges as you learn. Explore ideas to help your students to learn through making n Connect with a network of other educators and Raspberry Pi Foundation experts

Annual Review 2016 43 RASPBERRY PI CERTIFIED EDUCATORS

DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY JON WITTS AT QUEEN MARGARET’S SCHOOL, YORK, UK

on is a firm believer in the work at a girls’ secondary school launch and an attempt to break importance of digital making in York. Their computer science the altitude record are planned. J as a creative outlet that curriculum is planned around Outside work, Jon also runs the Hull young people can use to express Raspberry Pi computers, and taught Raspberry Jam for nine- to twelve- themselves and to learn. He to all eleven- to 14-year-olds. Jon year-olds, with Claire Garside. With applied to Picademy to further his also runs extracurricular clubs for Hull chosen to be UK City of Culture knowledge of physical computing all age groups. for 2017, Jon and Claire have big and Raspberry Pi computers. He The school has a high-altitude plans to develop the Raspberry has gone on to make use of what balloon club, with three successful Jam’s opportunities for creative he learned in many aspects of his launches to date. A future night digital making.

ELEMENTARY MATH AND TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION COACH AMANDA HAUGHS IN CAMPBELL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT, USA

manda is a teacher who position to many teachers. She had expanded her personal learning works with other teachers tried Scratch and other programming network. She is now continuing to A to support their use of languages, but wanted to find out learn from this network, as well as technology in English and maths. She how to use this knowledge to plan sharing her good practice with the had been using coding in her work compelling and relevant projects. teachers she works with. She has to help engage students in relevant Picademy provided these ideas, shared her skills at the International and meaningful learning, so when and gave her the confidence and Society for Technology in Education Picademy came to the USA she saw it experience to use them. Amanda (ISTE) conference, at CUE Rockstar as a chance to supercharge her skills met and connected with other events, and at some of our own in this area. Amanda was in a similar enthusiastic educators, and Picademy events.

44 Annual Review 2016 THE MAGPI MAGAZINE

he MagPi is the official is not a barrier to learning about Raspberry Pi magazine, digital making, so we also make T written by and for the The MagPi available as a free PDF Greatest projects community to inspire and educate at magpi.cc. For issue 50 of The MagPi, we readers of all ages to have fun The MagPi is downloaded and ran a vote to find the 50 greatest with digital making. The magazine purchased more than 125,000 Raspberry Pi projects so far. celebrates the achievements of times every month. Downloads and Here are the top five… the community, and gives its sales in November 2016 exceeded a members a platform to share their quarter of a million alone. 5. Aquarium skills, ideas, and experience with This year has seen a range of Michael Gronau’s fish tank polls a weather station on the Cayman Islands readers all over the world. It is themes for the features in the and adjusts the lighting and temperature in his tropical tanks to match. filled with projects and guides from magazine, from Christmas- and community makers, reviews of the Halloween-focused projects for 4. Internet of Lego latest products, and news on what’s those keen on seasonal celebrations, Cory Guynn’s internet-controlled Lego town is complete with a train happening in the wider Raspberry to projects for the Raspberry Pi scheduled for London commuters using the Transport for London API. Pi community. Zero in March. In April, those with 3. BrewPi The MagPi’s monthly editions are now a Elco Jacobs developed this early project to control the temperature of beer brewing equipment. It is now a commercially available product. fixture in newsagents and supermarkets, including WHSmith and Tesco across the UK 2. SeeMore Staff at Virginia Tech combined computer science and art to create this sculpture of 256 parallel Raspberry Pi computers that move in sync as The MagPi’s monthly editions an ambition to automate their they compute. are now a fixture in newsagents home with Raspberry Pi computers and supermarkets, including enjoyed the ‘power up your life’ 1. Magic Mirror WHSmith and Tesco across the feature, and in November there was Michael Teeuw created this much-replicated project, bringing UK, and Barnes & Noble in the an in-depth look at the potential of information and updates to mirrors across the world. It’s a delightful USA. The proceeds from print robotics projects. The 50th issue, project that allows each maker to customise it to their information sales contribute to funding our published in October, celebrated needs and their own interior decor. educational goals. Part of our the 50 most popular Raspberry Pi mission is making sure that cost projects, as voted for by readers. Read more at magpi.cc/Issue-50

Annual Review 2016 45 BOOKS ur publishing arm shares the goal we have for computer O hardware: to turn something otherwise expensive and inaccessible New books for 2016 into something affordable and fun. n Experiment with the Sense This year we have expanded The MagPi HAT Jan 2016 Essentials series with six new titles. n Code Music with Sonic Pi Each of these books aims to bring Feb 2016 together the essential elements of a topic, taking the reader from n Learn to Code with Scratch a novice to near-expert in the June 2016 subject. An Essentials book takes a n Hacking and Making in theme that you might find in The Minecraft July 2016 MagPi magazine and allows readers n Simple Electronics with to go deeper, taking a structured GPIO Zero Aug 2016 approach to mastering all the The Official Raspberry Pi n Learn to Code with C essential elements. Projects Book 2 Oct 2016 Just like The MagPi, our books are £12.99 n available both in print and online. Released November 2016, The Official Official Raspberry Pi PDF copies are available for free Raspberry Pi Projects Book Volume Projects Book vol 2 download from magpi.cc. Like The 2 is the ultimate compendium of Nov 2016 MagPi, they reach huge numbers of inspiring projects, essentials guides, Learn to Code with C people, with more than 1.25 million and step-by-step projects. £3.99 Buy or download free at sales and downloads to date. magpi.cc/PiProjects2 The latest in our affordable Essentials magpi.cc/Back-issues series of books designed to help you master Raspberry Pi-related and Each of these books aims to bring together general computing and coding skills. the essential elements of a topic, taking the Learn to Code with C is one of our most popular titles to date. reader from novice level to near-expert level magpi.cc/learn-c-book

46 Annual Review 2016 HELLO WORLD

ello World is the new Computing At School (CAS) to bring available for personal subscription magazine for computing this approach directly to educators. and there are free hard copies for Hand digital making practising educators in the UK. educators. Inspiring and supporting Free education inspiration The magazine was launched at educators is a key part of our Hello World is a magazine, in print Bett 2017 in January, and has already mission, enabling them to create and online, written by educators, for reached thousands of educators. opportunities for young people to educators. It features a mix of news, Hello World will grow to support learn computing and digital making. features, teaching resources, and our community of educators, and in Our experience with The reviews. Issues appear three turn to support this community to MagPi has shown the times a year to coincide with grow. As a result, we aim to reach power of a magazine school terms, and feature many thousands more educators to support and 100 pages of content. Best and help them share their ideas, build a community. of all, it’s free forever inspire each other, and develop the In 2017 we are online as a PDF. Hard opportunities available to young working with copies are also people to get involved in computing and digital making.