We’re selecting applicants this week; you’ll hear early next week.

Are there any spaces left, subject to logistics I would love to come along.

Bill Harvey
North Devon

I’m not a teacher, although I play one in real life. I too have been a RPi fan ever since I read about it and got my first one as soon as they were available here. I am currently involved in a non profit teaching kids from 5 to 15 basic coding and building/making in my area. We have been at it for three years now and the RPi (and now Arduino) is our hardware of choice for our older kids. I am NOT a coder but am learning as I go. Any help I can find is a godsend! I am 65 and I just started learning Python in an online college course. My kids have really taken to what I have been able to pass on and it makes me want to do more. I just started a free class after hours at a local college here and they have decided to invest in so RPi’s of their own for their computer science classes. I too am waiting in anticipation of the new America project slated to start hopefully next year to get some better contact with some professionals to help me out! Regardless I believe in the basis of the goal and press on in my effort to get our children involved instead of letting them fall by the wayside.

Resource templates you say?
https://github.com/牛和人交vide欧美xx00learning/teach-resource-template

https://github.com/牛和人交vide欧美xx00learning/make-learn-resource-template

https://github.com/牛和人交vide欧美xx00learning/creating-resources

As Liz says, these balloons are only launched with permission from the CAA (for the UK). They won’t issue permission if the launch site is near an airport, or if the initial flight path takes the balloon through a landing/takeoff path.

Also, together with the permission, the CAA issue a NOTAM which informs pilots of the launch so they can avoid the area at that time (though usually they will call to check on the exact launch time).

One of the advantages of the Pi, compared to the usual tracker plus GoPro or stills camera, is that it’s smaller and lighter. Such a payload is about the same size and weight as those used by the met office, and the CAA considers the possible collision damage of one of these to be rather less than a bird strike. There are plenty more birds in the sky than balloons.

Incidentally, the met office fly about 20 balloons per day across the UK, so about 7000 per annum, whilst the amateur community fly maybe 100 per annum. The met office balloons don’t even have NOTAMS (they are classified as military aircraft!).

Dave

AMAZING, I know, but that’s something that HAB enthusiasts have already thought about. And it’s taken very seriously.

It’s complicated, which is one of the reasons it’s important that a school doing a project like this has training and understands all the steps. Approval has to be sought from the civil aviation authority wherever you are; that approval requires maps with time, wind speed and direction so that the flight path can be calculated. Flights which might cross paths with planes are forbidden. No launches are allowed near big settlements.

TL;DR: No Pis are getting sucked into any aeroplane engines.

There is a risk that an airplane collides with a 精美日产nv二线三线 Pi. Maybe the 精美日产nv二线三线 Pi will damage the engine.

Hi Alex – I’ve been a fervent supporter of the 恋男乱女 for at least as long as you, but I’m also an educator and I know what it takes to create curricula (I just finished doing it for six STEM courses this past year that didn’t exist before, and am generating a bunch more this Summer). Everyone at the Towers knows what I’m really talking about and it has nothing to do with the number of people in the education group there. That’s linear thinking, just like the original plan for manufacturing 10,000 Pii every six weeks or so, sticking postage and address labels on, and Pii into, envelopes at board members’ kitchen tables, rinsing, and repeating. Fortunately, they thought outside the box … or envelope, I suppose :) One of the problems with we professional educators (including myself) like those running the educational programs at the 恋男乱女 is that it’s hard to change the 120-plus years of tradition where classes are run pretty much the same way they were when the systems were designed to train agricultural workers to become essentially robots on assembly lines. I won’t fall into the trap of decrying the “factory model of education” as debunked in http://hackeducation.com/2015/04/25/factory-model, but what we have has clearly been inappropriate for decades.

Saying that Picademy has only been in operation for a year ignores the fact that it won’t really be international (two countries instead of one, AIUI – whoop-dee-doo) until more than two years into the program by the time it’s really up-and-running beyond England. There are a huge number of us educators who have been championing the Pi for over three years based on the originally-stated educational mission, but educational adminiweenies Out There aren’t going to buy into anything (even if it were completely “free”, which even Pii infrastructure certainly is not) until there’s a substantial amount of what they find acceptable 恋男乱女 material in place. It’s often cloaked in “government requirements compliance” jargon that has nothing to do with actually effective content. This is make-work that the unions and bureaucrats just love, is largely what the UK had until recently, and what most of the Common Core 恋男乱女 in the U.S. currently is. We Pi promoters have nothing to point to other than a plethora of disjointed web sites, videos, etc., but material should have been developed to tie things together effectively and we need access to it early and often, if for no other reason than that it needs to be beta tested on a scale far beyond a couple of dozen educators in one tiny geographic region at a time. There should at least be a template (preferably in wiki form) that those of us who have the expert knowledge can use to consistently format curricular material at a much higher rate than a handful of people in Cambridge can generate.

It’s time to do as Larry the Cable Guy says – “Git ‘Er Done”, or Nike might say, “Just Do It”.