“Those Guys” always have some sort of project going. Recently we’ve been playing with the Raspberry Pi credit-card sized computer. You may have seen our recent foray to the Raspberry Pi Bake-off at Hendrix College. We when we got on the Raspberry Pi.org website this morning to continue our research for our Roomba project there was a pleasant surprise awaiting us.
A video by the girls of the engineering class to the girls at Charlotte Latin School, which we have heard to be the first class using the Raspberry Pi in the United States. This group of his 13-year-old pupils have just given a TEDx talk called How Girls Should Serve Raspberry Pi, presenting the projects they’ve made with Raspberry Pi over this semester.
They have some interesting projects, from social media to younger sister (and parents I bet) warning alarms but there’s another important message here: we know that STEM subjects are not just for boys.
“Keep watching – the projects get better and better.” – Liz @ RaspberryPi.org
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Doesn’t that title just reach out and grab the Nerd in you? It does me. It conjures up images of craft, large and small, floating in space, traveling from the earth to the moon, and beyond. It is exciting to see the funding for this project nearing its goal.
Arrgh, lads and lassies it be nigh unto 10 years ago now that the noted rapscallion (and Pulitzer Prizing winning author) Dave Barry mentioned Talk Like A Pirate Day in his syndicated column and be spreading the word fame o’ The Pirate Guys. E’r since that fateful day, on September 19 crew from around the world have be swaggering forth from their secret bilges and 
