Contents - Raspberry PI Community Projects

Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley
The Computer History Museum (http://www.ComputerHistory.org) in the heart of Silicon
Valley in Mountain View, California, has an educational program which provides
resources to educators and students from pre-school up through graduate school levels.
Museum staff and volunteers provide tours of the museum's exhibits that contain the
largest collection of computing artifacts in the world, from the abacus through massivelyparallel
supercomputers. Modern computing fundamentals are introduced, from how
individual transistor circuits hold binary values, through data processing, input/output,
short and long-term storage, and a wide variety of software, from the earliest punched
card programs to current operating systems and programming languages. We will be
coordinating hosting Raspberry Pi user groups in the area after boards start being
delivered, and will provide assistance to educators and students in setting up their R-Pi
systems and learning how to perform software development, from games to whatever
anyone wants. We will also participate in developing educational documentation in the
eLinux.org R-Pi wiki (http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard) and contributing to the
Computing At School (CAS) (http://www.computingatschool.org.uk) initiative.
Schools
Manchester Grammar School Computing Society, The
A new co-curricular club for Y9 boys aimed squarely at the new "UK Computing in
Schools" initiative. Details of what we're doing are on the MGS Computing Society page.
Winsford E-Act Academy Programming Club
This is an after-school club set up to encourage students to learn programming and more
about how computers work. There's a blog site to support the club at teampython
(http://teampython.wordpress.com/) . We are very excited about the Raspberry Pi and
can't wait to get our hands on one. For the time being, we are learning Python 3 with
Pygame. To get the students used to using Linux, we are using a remaster of Puppy that's
available here: RacyPy2 (http://teampython.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/while-you-waitfor-your-raspberry-pi-why-not-use-racypy2/)
. Anyone who wants to join in online or
share ideas is very welcome!
Trinity School Computer Club
Plans for setting up the club based on headless RPi is shown in the
RPI_Trinity_Computer_Club page.