Picademy@Google

During the week an exciting email from the lovely people at Raspberry Pi dropped into my inbox inviting me to attend one of the upcoming Leeds Picademies.  I applied for a place a couple of weeks ago and to be honest hadn't been particularly hopeful of receiving a place.  I figured that they were really looking for teachers rather than HLTAs but was over the moon that I was wrong!

Picademy is two days of hacking, programming and making using the Raspberry Pi and its various add ons.  I will get to work with lots of other teachers to create our own projects, learn about how to use the Raspberry Pi to teach computing and no doubt will go home with my mind brimming with ideas.

Here is a video showing a project created at a previous Picademy.  A singing and dancing Michael Jackson tribute glove.

 

 

It looks like it's going to be tremendous fun and I can't wait.  Oh and when I finish I get to use the official title of 'Raspberry Pi Certified Educator'!