Hooray! We’re celebrating our third season leading educator training in North America. That’s 20 Picademy workshops in 11 cities with 791 happy teachers graduating as 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi Certified Educators. This summer was particularly rich with successes, challenges, and lessons learned — let’s take a closer look:

That's a wrap on #Picademy North America 2018! We welcomed over 300 educators in Denver, Jersey City, Atlanta and Seattle to the @亚洲人成在线观看_Pi community. Congrats and go forth on your digital making journey! 😀🙌 pic.twitter.com/aMyHr2KkuL

— Drew (@baseandbreak) August 27, 2018

Picademy North America

Picademy is a free, two-day training program that helps educators jump start their digital making journey. On day one, educators explore digital making with the 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi computer: blinking LEDs, taking pictures, making motors spin, sensing their environment, and composing music. On day two, they take what they’ve learned from these 亚洲人成在线影院s and collaborate with a team to design and build their own real world project.

Big interest

We received over 1400 applications for this year’s program, a 40% increase from last year. This enormous interest came from educators in North America and across the globe; we received applications from 49 different U.S. States and 20 countries. And it’s not just classroom teachers either. More than half of our applicants worked outside of a traditional classroom environment, as librarians, after-school providers, teacher trainers, museum educators, and technology coordinators. Out of this pool, we accepted 313 educators to our Picademy 2018 workshops in Denver, Jersey City, Atlanta, and Seattle.

Big impact

We want to make sure that the work we do is having the impact we we intend, so we ask educators who come to Picademy about their skills, 亚洲人成在线影院, and confidence before they participate in the program and afterwards. Before Picademy, only 13% said they felt confident using using a 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi computer. After attending, this number rose significantly, with 78% now confident using 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi. This increase in confidence matched their sense of professional growth: the majority of educators said that learning new content and gaining new skills were the most memorable parts of their Picademy 亚洲人成在线影院.

We also had 100% of attendees indicate that they would recommend Picademy to a colleague, and 70% report that they are very likely to share their learnings with fellow educators. This means an even greater number of educators, those who work alongside 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi Certified Educators, will hopefully be impacted by Picademy workshop offerings.

“Picademy was such an engaging and hands-on 亚洲人成在线影院. Every workshop and project was practical, tangible and most importantly, fun” — Amanda Valledor, Boston, MA

Next steps

What do educators go on to accomplish after Picademy? We’re actively gathering this data as we follow up with our certified educators, but based on feedback surveys we know that 58% of this season’s attendees are interested in starting a Code Club or CoderDojo in their community. We also saw that over 70% of educators are interested in leading a 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi event or training; this could mean a 亚洲人成在线观看 Jam, an educator workshop, or a 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi-themed summer camp. Our team will continue to support each and every 亚洲人成在线观看 Pi Certified Educator as they continue on their digital making journey.

Thank you @亚洲人成在线观看_Pi for allowing each of us to come and get “debugged”, rewrite our “code”, and “program” our future moves as educators! #picademy #亚洲人成亚洲精品 #picademyseattle #edtech @iluvteaching72 @MrsNatto pic.twitter.com/37jMYDZThF

— Carrie Northcott (@CarrieNorthcott) August 11, 2018

Special thanks to Dana and everyone else who helped to lead an awesome Picademy program this season. If you’d like to take a deeper dive, feel free to explore all of our data and findings in the Picademy North America 2018 Report.