Inspire your students’ passion for STEM!
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pi-top provides educators with all the tools needed to make teaching and learning standards-based Computer Science easy and engaging.
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Powered by a unique Raspberry Pi programmable ecosystem, pi-top blends step-by-step coding, robotics, and engineering lessons with hands-on hardware applications.
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What makes pi-top different:
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Raspberry Pi! - Some computer science and robotics products use proprietary software that limit product usage solely to their own devices. With pi-top, teachers and students are only limited by their imagination - allowing schools to integrate components that they already have to create exciting, one-of-a-kind projects.
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Flexibility - No need to purchase different products for different skill levels. Your pi-top products can be used for lessons from beginner coding to advanced programming, offering differentiated instruction opportunities based on each student’s skill level.
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Teacher Support - Can teaching computer science be easy for “non-techy” teachers? Yes! pi-top provides step-by-step computer science activities, easy to understand lesson plans, and comprehensive professional development activities, designed to give teachers the skills and confidence to implement pi-top into their lessons.
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The Further CS Library - Further provides easy-to-implement computer science lessons that combine standards-aligned skills with relevant, real life activities to keep students excited to learn.
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Please contact your Regional Manager for more information, or use the links above to gain access to more specific information.
pi-top [4]
pi-top [4] is a portable brain that can be clipped from project to project without needing to rebuild. pi-top [4] also works with a range of products you might already have at school or home like Arduino or micro:bit.
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Features include:
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5 hour internal battery - Go anywhere and keep your projects running for longer.
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Power management system - This best-in-class system includes soft shutdown & UPS to avoid SD card corruption.
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USB-C Power Delivery - specification at 15V for faster battery charging.
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Integrated heat sink & cooling fan - make temperature regulation a breeze with the centrifugal fan, even with overclocking.
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Programmable buttons & screen - Interact with your projects at the click of a button and with the OLED mini screen.
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Integrated 1-watt loudspeaker - If you want to go louder, simply connect to the external jack.
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Full access to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO - Female 40-pin connector with labeled ports puts an end to pesky bent pins.
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Full access to all of Pi’s ports - USB 3.0, USB 2.0, RPi OTG, Gigabit Ethernet, GPIO & dual HDMI connectors.
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Robotics Kits
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Coding and other STEM skills are highly valued in our modern workforce. Learning robotics is a fun, hands-on way to explore programming and engineering.
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Even if your chosen career isn’t in technology, you’ll develop key skills such as creative thinking, problem solving, teamwork and more.
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With 50+ metal build plates, servo motors, encoder motors, wheels, camera, ultrasonic sensor and more, the pi-top [4] Robotics Kit includes all the components you need.
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Electronics Kits
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Replace passive screen time with active learning time by creating simple electronics projects, and learning to code them.
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Control lights and sounds with sensors, buttons and potentiometers. Begin with a few lines of code to turn on an LED when a button is pressed. Progress with additional components and code.
Implementing pi-top products in the classroom is easy! Our step by step guides walk you through setting up and getting started with projects that will excite and engage your students.
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Further Online Project Library
From beginner to advanced, Further offers 100+ hours of exciting standards-aligned computer science lessons and activities.
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Further gives students the tools to meet key STEM standards while building the important soft skills crucial for their future. Skills attained through Further activities include:
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Coding
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Robotics
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Engineering
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Electronics
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Critical thinking
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Leadership
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Problem Solving
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Creativity
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Features include:
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Register with Clever or Google Classroom - Sync your classes and students with Further - no manual set-up. Talk with us about integrating with other cloud-based LMS.
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Align to a range of standards - Filter content based on curriculum requirements, to ensure students have the skills and experience they need.
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Monitor your students’ progress - Include tasks within projects that students need to complete. At any time, you can view student responses to tasks and give feedback using comments.
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Training sessions & facilitator guides. - We provide training and guides to help educators use pi-top’s ecosystem within their classroom for better learning outcomes.
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Customise your projects - Teachers can add or remove sections, and change them to reference items available in their school.
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Download the projects as a PDF - Any of the projects in Further can be downloaded as a PDF for use as a printable handout.
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Access a world of challenges - By combining Further with our hardware, students in a physics, chemistry or design class can learn with hands-on physical computing and coding.
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Deploy code from Further to a pi-top - Our ‘Code Runner’ allows students to write code on their computers, send code to the pi-top [4] for execution, and interact with it in real-time.
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Fully collaborative workflow - Several students can work together on their submissions to learning challenges.
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Remote learning ready - Students working from home can program robots and experiments remotely!
