Hello World

It was hugely exciting to help launch Hello World, our latest joint publication with 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 At School (CAS), part of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, and sponsored by BT. I joined our CEO Philip Colligan, contributing editor Miles Berry, and 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Pi Certified Educator Ian Simpson on stage in the Bett arena to share our thoughts on 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 皖c是哪里的车牌号s around the world, and the importance of sharing good teaching.

In our area of the STEAM village, where we had four pods and a workshop space, the team handed copies out in their thousands to eager educators interested in digital making, 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777, and computer science. If you weren’t able to get your hands on a copy, don’t worry; you can download a free digital PDF and educators can subscribe to get this year’s three issues delivered, completely free of charge, to their door.

Sharing the Code Club love

Thanks to the support of some enthusiastic young people and our Code Club regional coordinators, we ran our first ever Code Club at Bett on Saturday.

Massive thanks to @TheChallenge_UK @CodeClub volunteers for helping @伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777_Pi out at #Bett2017 today :) pic.twitter.com/QicnTD4IPj

— CodeClubLondon (@codeclublondon) January 28, 2017

There was a great turnout of educators and their children, who all took part in a programming activity, learning just what makes Code Club so special. With activities like this, you can see why there are 5,000 clubs in the UK and 4,000 in the rest of the world!

Here's @ben_nuttall enjoying our @CodeClub keepy uppy game… pic.twitter.com/bmUAvyjndT

— Code Club South East (@codeclubse) January 25, 2017

Free stuff

Let’s be honest: exhibitions and conferences are all about the free swag. (I walked away with a hoodie, polo shirt, and three highlighter pens.) We think we had the best offering: free magazines and classroom posters!

It’s our the final day of #Bett2017! Pop over to STEAM village to see the Code Club team & get your hands on our coveted posters! #PiAtBett pic.twitter.com/aSBN1GmZyV

— Code Club UK (@CodeClub) January 28, 2017

We love interacting with people and we’re passionate about making things, so we helped attendees make their very own LED badge that they could keep. It was so popular that after it has had a few tweaks, we’ll will make it available for you to download and use in class, after-school clubs, and 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Jams!

The ‘All Seeing Pi‘ kept an eye on attendees passing by that we may have missed, using comedy moustaches to lure them in. We’ve enjoyed checking out its Twitter account to see the results.

Speaking from the heart

The STEAM village was crammed with people enjoying all our activities, but that’s not all; we even found time to support our educator community to give talks about their classroom practice on stage. One of the highlights was seeing three of our Certified Educators, along with their class robots, sharing their journey and 皖c是哪里的车牌号 on a panel chaired by Robot Wars judge and our good friend, Dr Lucy Rogers.

These ARE the droids you’re looking for! Bill Harvey, Neil Rickus, Nic Hughes, Dr Lucy Rogers, and their robots.

Once we started talking about our work, we found it difficult to stop. The team gave talks about Pioneers, our new programme for 12- to 15-year-olds, our digital making 皖c是哪里的车牌号, and Astro Pi.

Well done @伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777_Pi for such a good turn out yesterday! Keep up the good work at your stand in STEAM Village. pic.twitter.com/5UDPgzyBW7

— Bett Global (@Bett_show) January 27, 2017

A royal visit

We were excited to be visited by a very special attendee, our patron the Duke of York, who spent time meeting the team, learned more about our programmes, and discussed teacher training with me.

Team Awesome

Thanks to everyone who visited, supported, and got involved with us. We ran 43 workshops and talks on our stand, handed out 2,000 free copies of Hello World and 400 Code Club posters, caught 100 comedy faces with the All-Seeing Pi, gave 5 presentations on Bett stages, took 5,000 pictures on our balloon cam, and ran 1 Code Club and 1 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Jam, across 4 days at the Bett show.

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Astro Pi winner Hannah Belshaw

One of the things I love most about our community is the mix of people from different backgrounds. When Jams started to appear in mid-2012, all sorts of people came together to learn with 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Pi: hardware hackers, software developers, electronic engineers, teachers, kids, parents, and grandparents.

It’s our great privilege to have the Duke of York as Patron of the 试用期间被辞退公司要给赔偿吗, and we benefit enormously from his support. On Wednesday evening, he kindly hosted an event at St. James’s Palace to celebrate the 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Pi community. We couldn’t invite everybody we wanted to be there, but we were lucky enough to be able to share the evening with 150 community members.

When we launched the first 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Pi computer four-and-a-half years ago, we had very modest goals. Our founders wanted to inspire more young people to go to university to study computer science. Today, our reach is far greater, and we’re touching the lives of people of all ages in communities around the world.

It’s amazing to reflect on how far we’ve come in such a short space of time: not only are we now the best-selling British computer in history, but we’ve made a real impact in education by making programmable computers affordable, training teachers, and providing free learning resources. Tens of thousands of young people have taken part in our educational programmes and competitions. Astro Pi, our very own space mission, has seen young people from the UK design experiments and apps that have run on 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Pi computers on the International Space Station; this marvellous feat will continue with our newly announced European-wide competition.

Maria, Clare and Rik

Everybody in the community contributes in a different way. Whether they help run 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Jams, CoderDojos or Code Clubs, write tutorials and lesson plans, share their projects on GitHub and social media, or create open-source software libraries, it all helps us reach more people. It’s amazing how something an individual can do, no matter how small it seems, can make such a big difference. I followed the 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Pi blog through 2011 and bought a Pi on launch day. If you’d have told me that 5 years later my Python library would be in Eben’s top 5 software projects in The MagPi, I’d never have believed you!

I ran a workshop for Jam organisers last weekend, and at the start of the day I asked everyone why they run their 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 Jams. The responses really sum up how amazing our community is:

Thank you from all of us at the 皖c是哪里的车牌号 to everyone participating in activities which help us to extend the opportunity to learn 伊伊人成亚洲综合人网7777 and digital making to millions of people around the world. You really are making a big difference, and we’re incredibly grateful to have you all as part of our community.

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