Oak Hill Collaborative leads, instills, and provides STEM development for youth with its Raspberry Pi Youth Program which teaches students valuable skills and understanding in STEM fields. Since 2017, Oak Hill Collaborative has partnered with local agencies such as the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, Akiva Academy, and more to ensure children from across the Mahoning Valley have access to these educational and technological resources.
By using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer, students learn hands-on computer hardware and computer programming skills and even earn the device after successfully completing the program. Students gain experience with assembling computer hardware, understanding binary and hexadecimal numbers, operating the Linux command line interface, introductory and advanced programming languages such as Scratch, JavaScript, and Python, developing for the web with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and programming and controlling components for robotics.
What sets the OHC Raspberry Pi Program apart is simple: Kids Learn, Code, and Create in a fun and educational environment that develops skills for future classroom readiness and STEM careers.
Work for a local institution that’s interested in offering a Raspberry Pi Youth Program? Contact sarah@oakhillcollaborative.org for a program estimate!
What is Raspberry Pi?
Raspberry Pi is a small single-board microcomputer (roughly the size of a deck of playing cards) developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation that has an ARM Cortex quad-core processor and a microSD card reader for storage and for booting a Linux-based Raspberry Pi OS (operating system). Raspberry Pi is popular because of its low cost, compact size, and flexibility and is used to teach computer science in schools, used as an onboard computer for robotics, and is used in both industrial automation and home automation systems. The first Raspberry Pi prototypes were created in 2011 and the first commercial Raspberry Pi was launched in 2012. The first Raspberry Pi was the Raspberry Pi Model B. In 2016, the Raspberry Pi 3 was the first Raspberry Pi to have an integrated Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module.