Digital Maker Activity Badges (Raspberry Pi)

Raspberry Pi are passionate about inspiring and supporting your interest in digital making.

Sharing their skills and knowledge, Raspberry Pi will support you to develop your digital making skills. Making things with technology can help young people learn how to solve problems, build resilience, help their communities and express themselves.

Raspberry Pi has created a suite of resources to guide you through digital making.

Badge and resources

We have been working hard to make sure that the badge is relevant and accessible. The activities presented here are relevant to scouting, and we will continue to release new activities that support the badge over the coming months. We are working to make the Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge accessible by providing every scout leader with the confidence, support, and kit that enables you to offer the badge to your young people.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is committed to making the Digital Maker Staged Activity badge accessible, so you are able to complete the majority of our recommended resources using any desktop or laptop computer and without any specialist equipment (e.g. Raspberry Pi computers).
You are also able to complete our "unplugged" resources without using any technology at all.

Keen to get stuck in? 

As part of the sponsorship of the Digital Maker Badge, Raspberry Pi Foundation are offering a free workshop for Scout Leaders in and around the District of Hull who are interested in offering the Digital Maker Badge to their scouts.

The workshop will focus on the importance of Digital Making as a life skill for scouts, and how it can enhance their problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity abilities. Scout leaders will get hands-on experience in controlling LEDs, sensors and making simple devices from cheap, off the shelf components, see how they can be applied to solve problems in our local communities, and we will also talk about getting hold of equipment for scout huts and districts.

By the end of the workshop, scout leaders will have the knowledge and confidence to introduce digital making to their scouts, and empower them to use their new skills to create all sorts of cool gadgets and devices to solve everyday problems in the future.

The workshop will take place on Sunday 21st May at 10am, and will be at Portobello Scout Hut in Hull.   There are 24 places available, so if you are interested please reply soon to confirm your place.

The workshop is free. Raspberry Pi Foundation just want to get kids making cool stuff! Raspberry Pi Foundation will be bringing their own gear, but if you would prefer to bring in your own laptop that’s fine too.

 

Train the Trainer Event

Raspberry Pi are running an in-person Train the Trainer event. 

In Person Train the Trainer - Hull, Sunday 21st May 2023

The Portobello Scout Hut
The Broadway
Hull 
HU9 3JJ

If you'd like to take part, please email partnerships@scouts.org.uk or fill in this smartsheet.