Google pumps cash into UK classrooms, will buy Arduino, Raspberry Pi sets for kids

[![Image][1] ][2]

[Eric Schmidt][3] has said that Google will make cash available through its investment into Teach First to buy [Raspberry Pi][4] and [Arduino][5] units for British schoolchildren. He was at the UK's [Science Museum][6] to talk about Mountain View's partnership with the charity, which puts top university graduates into schools to teach disadvantaged kids. The Android-maker wrote a cheque to fund over 100 places on the scheme, aiming to get bright computer scientists to reintroduce engineering principles to pupils. Mr. Schmidt hoped that with the right support, kits like the Raspberry Pi would do for this generation what the [BBC Micro][7] did three decades ago.

[Google pumps cash into UK classrooms, will buy Arduino, Raspberry Pi sets for kids][2] originally appeared on [Engadget][8] on Thu, 24 May 2012 05:46:00 EDT. Please see our [terms for use of feeds][9].

######

[Permalink][10] | ![source][11][BBC News][12] | [Email this][13] | [Comments][14]

[1]: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/05/raspberrypimakefaire01-1337849629.jpg
[2]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/google-teach-first-raspberry-pi/
[3]: http://www.engadget.com/tag/ericschmidt
[4]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/21/raspberry-pi-hands-on-and-eben-upton-interview-at-maker-faire-v/
[5]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/17/super-sized-arduino/
[6]: http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/26/london-science-museum-undusts-oramics-machine-revisits-og-elect/
[7]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/04/series-revisits-arms-humble-beginnings/
[8]: http://www.engadget.com
[9]: http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/
[10]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/google-teach-first-raspberry-pi/ (Permanent link to this entry)
[11]: http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/post_label_source.gif
[12]: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18182280
[13]: http://www.engadget.com/forward/20244059/ (Send this entry to a friend via email)
[14]: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/google-teach-first-raspberry-pi/#comments (View reader comments on this entry)

URL: http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/24/google-teach-first-raspberry-pi/