[Edu-sig] BBC MicroBit

[Nicholas H.Tollervey]

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Hi,

Today the BBC announced the MicroBit (part designed by PSF fellow
Michael Sparks) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31834927.

About 1 million of these small programmable devices will be given away
to 11-12 year olds starting their secondary education at the start of
the UK's next academic year in September.

Python is one of the three languages that work with the device.

The PSF is involved in helping to generate community sourced Python
resources for the project and we hope the MicroBit will be a big part
of PyconUK's education track (taking place at the end of September).

In addition to the BBC article above, the Guardian gives a good
summary and mentions the PSF here:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/bbc-micro-bit-raspberry-pi

I have an alpha-version of the device sitting on my desk and my
impression is that kids will have a *lot* of fun. Think Pythonic
blinkenlights, buttons, bluetooth and IO.

Yay!

Best wishes,

Nicholas.
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