When a teacher got in touch after listening to episode 3 of We Make the Future, what he showed us blew us away.
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All about life at pi-top
And the winner is…
To celebrate the launch of our new podcast, We Make The Future, we decided to offer you a chance to win a pi-top, as well as a copy of The Maker Mentality, a new book about maker spaces from Nicholas Provenzano.
Meet the maker bringing Ada Lovelace to life
In the latest episode of We Make The Future we meet Zoe Philpott, whose one woman show celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace. The lack of diversity in the history of technology and science is a cause for great concern, and a subject we’ve looked at before in our podcast. If there aren’t […]
What we’ve been reading, week 46
It’s time to put the kettle on, sit back and catch up on the best education, making, and learning news. Enjoy!
pi-top’s friends and family day
Since we built our maker space at our London office we’ve been thinking about ways to utilise the space more effectively, and get more people involved. So during the recent Autumn half-term break, we decided to organise a friends and family making day.
Learning through physical movement
In the latest episode of our podcast, We Make The Future, we explore physical movement and embodied learning (listen here).
Meet the maker: Avye
Avye is not your average 11-year-old. Her love for coding and making was sparked when she was only seven, and since then she’s not looked back. She spends most of her weekends attending a code group and even runs her own workshops to teach people coding and robotics.
Press play on our new podcast!
We’re delighted to launch We Make The Future, our new collection of audio interviews that will explore the future of education, making, and technology. The technology now extends out capabilities to return the reasons for making into the learning experience In the first episode, host Andrew Webb interviews Dr. William Rankin about the idea of change; […]
Q&A with Mike Roberts, Senior Software Engineer at pi-top
Mike Roberts is a Senior Software Engineer here at pi-top. Mike joined the team in the company’s early days, over three years ago. In honour of Programmer’s Day, celebrated on the on the 256th day of the year, we decided to sit down to have a chat with Mike about his experience working at pi-top, and […]
Voting is now open for the SXSW PanelPicker!
The SXSW PanelPicker community voting is now open! Help shape the SXSW Edu Conference program by voting on which sessions you would like to see in March 2019. This year, our very own Graham Brown-Martin (Chief Education and Product) and Dr William Rankin (Director of Learning and Research) have each submitted a panel proposal
