Raspberry Pi Foundation Blog

Walk into Allison Knoph’s fifth grade classroom in Edina, Minnesota in October and the creative writing station will be the loudest place in the room. That is by design. “I use it at my creative writing station,” she says of Experience CS, which she has run each fall for the past couple of years. Kids use the station computers to be creative as they work on their programming projects, building characters and testing jokes they have written.

Are you a computing teacher in England, Scotland, or Wales who works with 11- to 14-year-olds and is interested in how young people learn about AI ethics and sustainability? The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre is launching an exciting new research study, and we would love you to get involved. In this study, we will explore teaching about the impacts of AI on people, the environment, and society.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of young people’s everyday lives, from the content recommended to them on social media to the generative AI tools they increasingly encounter. But AI technologies are also being used to tackle challenges in the wider world, from forecasting floods to monitoring our environment. That’s why we believe AI literacy shouldn’t sit within a single subject.

Strap yourselves in for an out-of-this-world journey! The European Astro Pi Challenge 2026/27 officially launches today, 14 September 2026! Young people across Europe and Canada are invited to participate in two fun coding missions, offering them the amazing opportunity to run their programs on the Astro Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

The UK Bebras Challenge, the nation’s largest computing challenge, is back! Last year, more than 526,000 students from across the UK took part, tackling fun and thought-provoking puzzles that introduce key ideas in computational thinking with no extra preparation needed. Read on to learn how your school can get involved. The UK Bebras Challenge is a free-to-enter annual challenge that is designed to spark interest in both computational thinking and computer science among students aged 6 to 19.

Experience AI equips young people with a meaningful understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning by giving educators the knowledge and confidence to teach these topics in ways that suit their classrooms. Whether you’re introducing AI to learners for the first time, helping them deepen their understanding, exploring generative AI with them, or integrating AI literacy across the curriculum, Experience AI offers you all the resources you need for free.

Young people see and use artificial intelligence (AI) systems frequently, and hear a lot about how they are applied across many areas of life. That makes them understandably eager to find out more about how AI works. For some, this interest extends to wanting to experiment with the technology to investigate their own questions and build something themselves.

Our free, browser-based Code Editor now keeps working when your internet connection doesn’t. If your connection breaks in the middle of a lesson or a project, you can carry on writing and running your code without disruption, even if the page is reloaded. An unstable internet connection is a minor annoyance when you’re reading a web page, but it’s a much bigger problem when you’re 20 minutes into creating a program.

When faced with a programming problem, computing educators often start solving it without a second thought. Before writing a single line of code, experienced programmers use a range of skills to choose their approach and make other key decisions. Thanks to repeated practice, many of these decisions feel automatic and require little conscious thought. However, for beginner programmers, starting a programming problem can feel overwhelming, requiring intense thought and concentration.

We love hearing from members of the community and sharing the stories of amazing young people, volunteers, and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. Last year, we shared the story of Douglas, founder and director of Oasis Mathare, an organisation using technology to open doors for young people in one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements.