{"id":337,"date":"2015-02-02T19:07:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2015-02-02T15:52:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T20:52:28","slug":"getting-the-rpisoc-into-capital-region-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/rpisoc\/getting-the-rpisoc-into-capital-region-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting the RPiSoC into Capital region schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we have been working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovatorsink.com\/#!smartkidsny\/cee5\">Smartkids<\/a>\u00a0to bring the RPiSoC into the classroom. Last week we ran our first trial run at Glenmont Elementary school with over 60 3rd graders. A quick summary from the school district can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethlehemschools.org\/3rd-grade-students-dabble-code\/\">http:\/\/www.bethlehemschools.org\/3rd-grade-students-dabble-code\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These demos made use of Scratch on Raspberry Pi and Windows. Kids learned how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/some-neopixel-fun\/\">control LEDs<\/a>, use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/rpisoc-and-scratch-2-0\/\">capacitive touch sensors in a game<\/a>, and control servos and joysticks. We will be doing several more demos at schools in the next few months. This will allow us to get the feedback we need to add some\u00a0final polish before we release kits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_2.jpg\" alt=\"glenmont_2\" width=\"797\" height=\"601\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_1.jpg\" alt=\"glenmont_1\" width=\"798\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/glenmont_1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently we have been working with Smartkids\u00a0to bring the RPiSoC into the classroom. Last week we ran our first trial run at Glenmont Elementary school with over 60 3rd graders. A quick summary from the school district can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bethlehemschools.org\/3rd-grade-students-dabble-code\/ These demos made use of Scratch on Raspberry Pi and Windows. Kids learned how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}