AstroPi primary school winners announced

Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are:

  • Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used to visualise data sent back from the ISS.
  • Cranmere Primary School Code Club in Esher, Kent – the presence of nearby astronauts will be detected by sensors and then a photograph taken using the Pi Camera Module.

Other primary schools that were highly commended will receive class sets of the Astro Pi to continue experimenting.

Also announced were the secondary schools that will receive sets of Astro Pi boards with which to continue developing their entries into the second half of the competition. Details of these schools are available on the UK Space Agency site.

Here’s a video of astronaut Tim Peake announcing the winners. Tim will be the one who will carry the Raspberry Pis into orbit where they will be placed on board the International Space Station.

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