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Astro Pi: Your Code in Space #559

Open mozfest-bot opened 7 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 7 years ago

[ UUID ] 0da66f1d-32c0-433b-947f-36934da75bd8

[ Session Name ] Astro Pi: Your Code in Space [ Primary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Dave Honess [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Raspberry Pi Foundation [ Submitter's Github ] @davidhoness

What will happen in your session?

Participants will learn about the Astro Pi mission (astro-pi.org) and how to get their code run on the International Space Station. The main part of the session will be showing how to program the Sense HAT peripheral for the Raspberry Pi computer (the core part of the Astro Pi mission) with hands-on worked examples.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Participants are enthused about programming and digital making and consider having their school participate in the Astro Pi competition.

Time needed

60 mins

davidhoness commented 7 years ago

Can I confirm if this has beep accepted? I can see the Session accepted label there but I haven't had an email. Many thanks

gbaman commented 7 years ago

Yes it has, we just haven't got around to sending out the YouthZone acceptance emails yet :)