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CONTENTS
Our mission

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Introductions

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Computers

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Outreach14

Community

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Learning

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Governance and partnerships

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OUR MISSIONO
ur mission is to put the powerof computing and digitalmaking into the hands ofpeople all over the world. We do thisso that more people can harness thispower for work, to solve problems
that matter to them, and to express
themselves creatively.

Our strategy:n We provide low-cost, highperformance single-board
computers, and free software
through Raspberry Pi Trading
Ltd, so that computing anddigital making are accessible
to alln We help young people acquirecomputing and digital making
skills through compelling
learning resources, a thriving
network of volunteer-led
clubs, exciting competitions
and events, and partnerships
with youth organisationsn We provide training andsupport to educators,
volunteers, and parents whowant to help young people
learn these skills
n We build and support
communities of young
people, parents, volunteers,businesses, and educators thatshare our mission

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We have sold 17 million Raspberry Pi
computers and have helped to establish
a global community of digital makers
and educators
Since launching our first productin February 2012, we have sold 17
million Raspberry Pi computersand have helped to establish a
global community of digital makers
and educators.
We use the profits generated
from the sale of our computers
and accessories to pursue our
educational goals. We also receive
funding and in-kind support fromgenerous partners.

INTRODUCTIONFROM THE CHAIRMANDAVID CLEEVELYI

am delighted to share with you
the 2017 Annual Review of the
Raspberry Pi Foundation.
It’s been a fantastic year for theFoundation and our mission to equipmany more people with the skills andknowledge to create with computers.
Our free educational resources arebeing used by millions of people
all over the world. Our training
has supported tens of thousandsof educators. Through our clubs
and programmes, we are directly
engaging hundreds of thousands ofyoung people each week.
At the same time, our commercial
activities have gone from strength
to strength. We ended the yearwith over 17 million Raspberry Pi
computers being used in industry,in education, and in the homesof people from all walks of life.
That commercial success fuels
our educational activities. We arealso proud to be working with alarge number of partners, donors,
and sponsors who support ourwork through expertise, advocacy,
and funding.

As Chairman of the Boards ofboth the Raspberry Pi Foundation
and Raspberry Pi Trading Limited,
I have the privilege of working withan exceptional group of Trustees,
Directors, and Members, who makesignificant contributions to our workthrough ensuring that we have good
governance, and through widely
advocating for our mission.
At the end of the year, one of our
co-founders, Jack Lang, stepped
down from the Board of Trustees
after nine years of service. We all owe
Jack a huge debt of gratitude for his
contribution to the Foundation andto the whole movement of computerscience education.
In November 2017, the Membershipelected Jon Drori, Chairman ofRavensbourne College, to serve asa Trustee. Jon brings a wealth ofexperience and expertise to the Board,and is already adding huge value.
I am very grateful to everyone
who has contributed to the successof Raspberry Pi this year, and I lookforward to even more great things
in 2018.

I am very grateful to everyone who has
contributed to the success of Raspberry
Pi this year, and I look forward to evenmore great things in 2018

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INTRODUCTIONFROM FOUNDATION CEO
PHILIP COLLIGAN

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hank you for taking the time
to read our Annual Review for2017.
We had an awesome year at the
Raspberry Pi Foundation, and thisdocument will provide you with an
overview of what we’ve been working
on and show you some of the impact
we’re having.
One part of that story is scale:
we are now helping millions ofpeople all over the world learn theskills, knowledge, and mindset
that will enable them to create
with technology; we’re also making
real progress on our goal to makecomputing relevant and accessible
to all, including measurable
improvements in our engagementof girls.
The other part of the story is how
individuals’ lives are changed bylearning new skills and growing
confident with technology: time andagain I talk to volunteers, educators,
and young people who have created
new opportunities for themselves

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computing and digital making.
Alongside the numbers, we’re tellingsome of their stories in this Review.
The big news in 2017 was
our merger with the CoderDojo
Foundation, which we announced inMay. Bringing together Raspberry
Pi, Code Club, and CoderDojo in one
group has created one of the largest
sustained efforts to engage young
people in computing and digitalmaking in the world.
It’s been a joy to welcome theCoderDojo Foundation team into the
Raspberry Pi family, and to receivea very warm welcome from theCoderDojo community in return.
Of course, none of this would
be possible without the incredible
support we receive from ourcommunity of makers, educators,
young people, volunteers, parents,
businesses, and policy-makers.
Thank you all for your support lastyear. I am excited about what we canachieve in 2018.

It’s been a joy to welcome theCoderDojo Foundation team into the
Raspberry Pi family, and to receive avery warm welcome from the CoderDojo
community in return

INTRODUCTIONFROM TRADING CEO
EBEN UPTONF

rom the perspective of
hardware launches, 2017 wasa quiet year for RaspberryPi, with the $10 wireless-enabled
Raspberry Pi Zero W being our only
new product. However, this belies the
progress we’ve made elsewhere.
On the software front, we upgraded
our official supported operating
system from Raspbian Jessie to thelatest Raspbian Stretch, and madenumerous improvements to ourdesktop environment and curated
applications. We added accelerated
video decoding to the Chromium web
browser, rolled out high-definition
H.265 video decoding for Kodi users,
and released a first version of the
PiServer classroom-management
system. For those unlucky enoughnot to own a Raspberry Pi, the newly
released Raspberry Pi Desktop
provides access to the sameenvironment on a PC or Mac via abootable DVD or USB stick.
Our commercial team has been
busy rolling out a number of

initiatives to support our customers.
The Raspberry Pi Integrator
Programme provides assistanceto partners who wish to integrate
Raspberry Pi into their products, and
the Powered by Raspberry Pi logo lets
them advertise that they’ve done so.
Our brand new network of Raspberry
Pi Approved Resellers covers
over forty countries, recognising
resellers who represent our products
well and make purchasing themstraightforward.
The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi
magazine, has gone from strength tostrength, with 10 000 monthly sales
and 100 000 monthly downloads ofthe free PDF version. Continuing our
tradition of hardware give-aways,
we distributed 20 000 Google AIY
Voice Kits with the May edition.
We published a ninth Raspberry
Pi book, a third Projects book, a
Beginners book, and an Annual. And,of course, we launched HackSpace
magazine, our publication for the
maker movement.

We’ve sold seventeen million
Raspberry Pi units overall, and six
million in 2017 alone. Millions of
those are in the hands of children (ofall ages), delivering on our educational
mission. Millions more are in homes,
offices, factories, and labs, being usedin ways we could never have imaginedwhen we started. The last six years
have been a wild ride, and we’re only
just getting started.

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ANNUALREVIEWCOMPUTERSSales continued to grow in 2017, and in
February we launched the Raspberry
Pi Zero W

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THE RASPBERRY PI
COMPUTER
We give people around the globe access to an affordable,
powerful computer to enable them to learn about and createsoftware and physical computing projects.

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he Raspberry Pi is a low-cost,high-performance, credit card–
sized computer that people
all over the world use to learn, solve
problems, and have fun. In addition
to offering affordable hardware, webuild and maintain open-source
software, and we partner with otherorganisations to provide free access topowerful educational software tools.

Activities:

The popularity of the Raspberry Pi
computer as a platform for learning
about and solving problems withtechnology continues to increase.
17 million Raspberry Pis are now
in the hands of people all over theworld, who are using them to learn
about programming and physicalcomputing, to build projects toaddress problems in their own
lives, and to create commercial
products from washing machines
to underwater exploration
vehicles. Sales continued to
grow in 2017, and in February
we launched the Raspberry Pi
Zero W, adding wireless LAN and
Bluetooth connectivity to ourultra-low-cost computer.

17 MILLION

Raspberry Pi computers soldby the end of 2017

5 MILLION

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
computers sold in 2017

Achievements:n  Launched Raspberry Pi Zero W,
which includes wireless LAN andon-board Bluetoothn  Gave away Google’s AIY Projects
Voice Kit for free with The
MagPi issue 57, bringing voicecontrolled artificial intelligenceto Raspberry Pi usersn  Launched Raspberry Pi Approved
Reseller programme in 50
countries, making our products
available more easily and at theright price to more people acrossthe worldn  Expanded support for businesses
using Raspberry Pi in theirown products by setting up
the Raspberry Pi Integrator
Programme, which allows
companies to get RaspberryPi–based products compliancetested more quickly, and bycreating the official Powered by
Raspberry Pi product labeln  Received the 2017 MacRobertAward, the UK’s longestrunning and most prestigious
national prize for engineering
innovation, presented by theRoyal Academy of Engineering

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RASPBERRY PI
POWERED PROJECTS
Stent-testing robot

Raspberry Pi computers are used for testing and prototyping in many areas,even in medical engineering. Dr Henry J. Feldman, Chief Information
Architect at Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians, created a smart stenttesting robot controlled by a Raspberry Pi. Stents are rubber tubes used toprop open patients’ airways, and a new stent design has to be tested 300 000
times to be certified for use. Dr Feldman’s system uses computer visionand machine learning to identify exactly when a stent fails. Designers canthen refine the stent prototype based on the collected data and images. The
Raspberry Pi is thus a cost-effective tool for people working to improve andeven save people’s lives.
Read more at rpf.io/stent

BitBarista — a fullyautonomous corporation

Many people use Raspberry Pi
computers to automate devices suchas coffee machines, but the teamat the University of Edinburgh’s
Centre for Design Informatics took
this a step further, freeing theircoffee machine from all tethers
to its owners. BitBarista is part
automation project, part social
experiment. It will sell you a coffee
in return for bitcoin, and it will
also pay you bitcoin to completetasks such as cleaning, water
replenishment, and restocking.
Customers choose which coffee
beans the machine shouldorder based on quality, price,environmental impact, and social
responsibility, with the machinecollecting and displaying data on
these choices. BitBarista is anautonomous robot corporation,
serving coffee and exploring
societal priorities.
Read more at rpf.io/barista

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BitBarista is
an autonomous
robot corporation,
serving coffee andexploring societal
priorities

Robocod

Landmine-clearing C-Turtle

Ingenuity and the power of a low-cost computer can help find solutions tochallenging and dangerous problems. One such problem is clearing areasof landmines. Traditionally this has required expensive robots built towithstand multiple blasts, but truly low-cost robots reframe the challenge.
Scientists at Arizona State University combined a cardboard robot design
inspired by turtle flippers with machine learning algorithms running ona Raspberry Pi Zero to create C-Turtle, a robot that autonomously learns
how to move across different terrains. C-Turtle is cheap enough to bedisposable, which could make it perfect for mapping and even clearing
minefields and thus keeping people safe.

Fish tanks are fairly boring places,
so Alex Kent and his friends at
Carnegie Mellon University set
out to make their goldfish moremobile. They added a Raspberry
Pi–powered undercarriage to their
goldfish tank, allowing it to movefreely. Movement is controlled
by the fish itself: computer
vision tracks its location, and as
it swims from the centre of thetank outwards, the Raspberry Pi
responds by moving the tank in
the corresponding direction. Other
goldfish keepers can create theirown free-range goldfish tanks byadapting the code shared openly
on GitHub.
Read more at rpf.io/robocod

Other goldfish
keepers can create
their own freerange goldfish
tanks by adapting
the code

Read more at rpf.io/cturtle

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OUTREACH
The best moment is seeing a childdiscover something for the first time.
It is amazing.
Code Club volunteer

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ASTRO PI

Astro Pi gives young people the chance to develop their
computing and science skills by creating programs to
run on the International Space Station (ISS).

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oung people are challenged towrite code that the European
Space Agency (ESA) will run on
two specially equipped Raspberry Pi
computers on the ISS.

6813
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young people took
part in Astro Pi in 2017

countries were open to join
the 2017–2018 Astro Pi
programme with astronaut Paolo
Nespoli. That’s all ESA member andassociate member countries!

1402

participants in 329
teams for Mission

5411

participants in 2506
teams for Mission Zero

Activities:

Astro Pi offers two avenues for young
people to write code to run in space.
In Mission Zero, less experienced
coders can create simple programs
guaranteed to run on the ISS. These
programs use the Astro Pi display toshow messages and graphics for the
astronauts aboard. More experienced
coders take part in Mission Space Lab
by designing scientific experiments
to be run in space. These coders havethe chance to investigate life on earth
or in space, using their creativity tocollect data aboard the ISS and thenanalysing this data once it is sent backto earth. This year teams wrote code
to detect when ISS crew members
were working nearby, as well as
programming their own experiments.
Thanks to our partners at theEuropean Space Agency and the
UK Space Agency who we haveworked with to create and deliver
this programme.

Image courtesy of: ESAn  E SA Astronaut Paolo Nespoliwith the Astro Pi computersn  Expanded the programme toall 24 ESA member/associate
member countries (15countries in 2016–2017 cycle)n  Introduced Mission Zero, a
non-competitive route foryounger coders where all valid
submissions are guaranteed to
run on board the ISS

Find out more at astro-pi.org

How tremendously
exciting! This
challenge encourages
children to explore
code, space, and theirown curiosity

See Astro Pi in actionat rpf.io/astropivideo

Miriam Winkels, primary school
teacher from Berlin, Germany

Space Lab

Achievements:n  Mission Space Lab received
a record number ofsuccessful entriesn  Young people from all 24
countries participated in
the programmen  41% of participants in Mission
Zero and 27% participants in
Mission Space Lab were girls

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CODE CLUB

Code Club gives 9- to 13-year-olds the programming skills
they need to succeed in an increasingly digital world.

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ode Clubs are fun, free, afterschool clubs run by volunteers
in schools, libraries, andmuseums where young people learn
programming by creating projects.

Activities:

At Code Clubs, young people follow
our fun guides to create projects using
Scratch, HTML/CSS, and Python. We
match volunteers who want to help
children develop their programmingskills with venues where children
come to learn, such as schools,
libraries, and museums. We also offer
hundreds of project guides for thechildren to work through and program
games, quizzes, animations, and evenencryption programs for sending
secret messages. The club members
are encouraged to get creative andmake the projects their own, and theylearn programming skills while using
technology to create things they canshare with their friends and family.
Find out more at:www.codeclubworld.org
and www.codeclub.org.uk

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I like coding because it’s like a whole otherlanguage that you have to learn, and it creates
something very interesting in the end
Betty, Year 10 student

Achievements:

92 000young people
reached (2.5% of
all UK 9- to 13-year-olds) through6187 active clubs in the UK

59 000young people
reached beyond
the UK through 3936 active clubs in
134 countries

8882

people running Code
Clubs, including
volunteers and teachers in schools

10organisations in countries
across the world
coordinating official Code Club
communities as National Partners

20.2%

of all UK primaryand secondary
schools and 13.6% of all UK libraries
have registered to run Code Clubs

41%

of UK club members
and 39% of international
club members are girlsn  Grew our network of Code
Clubs by 42%, adding 1162
new UK clubs and 1802 new
international clubs and thus
reaching a total of more than
10 000 active clubsn  Expanded the age range ofthe programme from 9–11
to 9–13 in the UK and later
across the world, and there
are now 712 Code Clubs in UK
secondary schoolsn  Launched our first free online
training course, Prepare
to Run a Code Club, on the
FutureLearn platform, and its
first run attracted more than
1000 participantsn  Held the first-ever Code Club
UK competition exclusively
open to active clubs,
attracting more than 1000
submissionsn  Added 151 new projecttranslations, expanding ourcatalogue to 340 projects in 29
languages, including English

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CODERDOJO
CoderDojo gives 7- to 17-year-olds the opportunity to learn
how to create and be creative with technology in an informal,social environment.

CoderDojo is a global,
community-driven networkof free, extracurricular,
volunteer-led clubs where young
people create with code andcollaborate with each other to learn
about technology.

I was thinking about a way to use my
STEM and coding skills, so I created asmart collar for my dog Bailey that helps
us find him when he gets lost! Now I share
my coding skills with others at my Dojo
Selin (aged 11), Ninja from Istanbul

Activities:

The CoderDojo Foundation became
part of the Raspberry Pi Foundationin May 2017, when we joined
forces to reach even more young
people worldwide. We believe that
understanding of programming
languages is increasingly importantin the modern world, that it isboth better and easier to learn
these skills early, and that nobody
should be denied the opportunity
to do so. CoderDojo clubs acrossthe world offer young people thechance to learn to code by creating
websites, apps, games, robots,
devices, and more, and to explore
technology in a safe, creative, andsocial environment. Dojos arerun by volunteers, and the global
volunteer community is supported

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Foundation. Ninjas get creative withall sorts of technologies, and they
can bring their own ideas to theirDojo, or they can use our educational
Sushi Cards to learn. Working
together to create something new
and to solve challenges is a big partof CoderDojo.
Find out how to start a Dojo at:
rpf.io/startadojo
See the highlights of theCoolest Projects 2017 event at:
rpf.io/coolestprojects2017
Find out more at:coderdojo.com

40 000

young people
reachedthrough 1556 active Dojos

85
10 000countries across theworld have Dojos

peoplevolunteered
for CoderDojo in 201728%
Achievements:n  456 new Dojos in 2017 —a growth rate of 41%n  More than 750 young people
participated in the annualinternational Coolest Projects
event in Dublin, Ireland,
showcasing their projects for
11 000 visitors from all over
the worldn  More than 150 volunteers andsupporters of Dojos from acrossthe world attended the annualinternational DojoCon event in
Warrington, UK
n  Regional DojoCons bringing
together hundreds of local
Champions, Mentors, andNinjas took place in Osaka,
Japan; Perth, Australia; andBrussels, Belgiumof Dojo participants(Ninjas) are girlsn  Supported the release of 52
pieces of community-generated
learning contentn  Created and released twelve setsof educational resources (Sushi
Cards) focused on teaching key
programming conceptsn  Organised two online content
hackathons to give community
members the opportunity
to support us by translating
resources from English into
other languagesn  Created and launched the
Empowering the Future guide,
giving CoderDojo volunteers
a toolkit of well-tested
practices they can adopt to help
increase the proportion of girls
in their clubs

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PIONEERS

Pioneers supports young digital makers (aged 11–16)
to expand their digital skills by getting creative withtechnology and showcasing their capabilities.

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he programme is a series ofcompetitions that inspireyoung digital makers todevelop new ideas and make thema reality with the help of guidancefrom a mentor.

Images courtesy of: Ana Gordon

Pioneers openeda new world of
possibilities for me
to use technology
for something fun
and creative
Alana, 13-year-old participant

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Activities:

The three Pioneers competitionsin 2017 gave young people theopportunity to build their computing
and digital making skills by creatinga project based on a theme. Youngpeople formed teams and worked
with an adult mentor to maketheir ideas a reality using digitaltechnology. We encouraged creativity
and experimentation, and teams
submitted a video describing theiridea, the process they went through,and what they made. Our judges
selected winners based on thesevideos for a range of categories,
including teams who had madea great effort but not necessarily
realised their finished idea. Winning
projects included a singing potato,
an RFID-enabled treasure hunt, andthe Computatron, an automatedNerf gun for protection during azombie apocalypse.
Thanks to our friends at the Shell
Centenary Scholarship Fund formaking Pioneers possible.
Find out more at:
rpf.io/pioneers

971

young people
formed 299 teams
and registered to take part

141

teams submitted
videos of their project
and the process of creating it

3themed competitions in2017 — Make us laugh,
Make it outdoors, and Only you
can save us

WEATHERSTATION

The Weather Station programme offers young people
the experience of building hardware and programming
software to create real-world meteorological experiments.

Schools all over the world haveassembled Raspberry Pi Oracle
Weather Stations using kits wesent them, and students have built
and programmed their stations tocapture local climate informationand share it with our global Weather
Station network. By taking partin this programme, students arelearning about scientific equipment,
data analysis, and data visualisation.

Activities:

The Weather Station programmebrings meteorological monitoring
resources to students all over theworld, helping thousands of young
people learn about computing
and science. Raspberry Pi Oracle
Weather Station kits have been
distributed to nearly a thousand
schools. Students assemble andmount the station, which includes
sensors for wind, temperature,
rainfall, and humidity. They develop
their computer science skills
programming the Raspberry Pi tocollect sensor readings and to log
them on the Oracle database, andthey learn to analyse scientific databy comparing their weather records
to records from other locations
across the globe.
Many thanks to our partners at
Oracle for making the Weather
Station programme possible.
Find out more at:
rpf.io/weatherstation

936

schoolswith Raspberry Pi
Oracle Weather Station kits

42
360

countries with active
Weather Stations

schools registered on
the Oracle database,where they upload and share theirweather data

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online learning resources
related to weather, some
utilising weather stations and somerequiring no special equipment

Achievements:n  299 000 views of
online Weather Station
project guidesn  Developed new learning
resources that do not require
the official Weather Station
kit, for example a guide to
uploading weather data onto
Weather Underground toshare it with over 250 000
other users, and a guide tovisualising weather data on
the Initial State dashboard

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ANNUALREVIEWCOMMUNITY
I really enjoy the challenge, I meetgreat people, and the maker crowd isfantastic and really supportive. I also
enjoy networking with people and local
companies. It is great for the library, andfor my own skills development.
Jacqui Thompson, Jam at Gateshead Library

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RASPBERRY JAMS
Raspberry Jams connect people in the community,
giving them the chance to come together to engage
in learning and digital making with Raspberry Pi.

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rganised by membersof the digital making
community, Raspberry Jams
are events where people of all ages
can participate in creating with
Raspberry Pi, and where they canshare ideas, work together, support
one another, have fun, and learn.

Raspberry Jam Big
Birthday Weekend

To celebrate the sixth birthdayof Raspberry Pi in March 2018,
we coordinated more than 100
simultaneous Raspberry Jams
around the world.
Head to rpf.io/jam for more
information.

START YOUR OWN JAM!
See rpf.io/jam for ideas and support.

Activities:

Raspberry Jams provide spaces
for people of all ages and levelsof expertise to meet, create withtechnology, and support and inspire
each other. Some Jams are informal
meetings where people shareprojects they have built or bring
prototypes they need help with,whilst other Jams host workshops
and inspiring talks. Many Jams
run regularly and attract a strong

community of people coming
together around a shared interestand to support one another. Youngpeople and adults often work
together to realise their projects,
with more experienced digitalmakers expanding their skill sets
and, in turn, supporting beginners.
Learn more and finda Jam near you at:
rpf.io/jam

374

Raspberry Jam eventsin 35 countries

this year52
18 700countries in total havebeen host to Jams

peopleattended
Jams in 2017, 50 attendees per
Jam on average

Achievements:n  111 new Jams started in 2017n  The Raspberry Jam
community welcomed 11
countries where Jams were
held for the first timen  Launched the Raspberry Jam
Guidebook of practical advice
on setting up andrunning Jamsn  Created a new Raspberry
Jam branding pack to helporganisers spread the word
about their events

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EVENTSO

ur events team attends Maker
Faires, trade shows, and otherlarge events across the UK
and the USA to showcase the powerof learning digital making. All of
our event stands feature hands-on
activities for people to try out, anda wealth of information about how
to take what they’ve learned further
with the help of our programmes
and resources.

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Through our presence at major events around the world,
we introduce people to computing and digital making,and we help them discover our fun learning opportunities.

ONLINECOMMUNITIEST
he forums at raspberrypi.org
are the go-to place for anyone
in the community wishing tofind help with their project, to discuss
new products and tools, or to get toknow other enthusiasts. Community
members moderate the forums,
working hard to support the positive
atmosphere and well-informed

discussions. There are now more than
1.2 million posts and 221 000 active
members on the forums.
Many people in our community
use social media to share theirprojects and to help each other makeand learn, and we have thriving
communities on all major social
media platforms.

Instagram Raspberry Pi Foundation:
92 600 followers (more than 100% growth in 2017)
YouTube Raspberry Pi:
27 000 subscribers (93% growth in 2017)
Twitter Raspberry_Pi:
368 000 followers
Facebook Raspberry Pi:
310 000 likes
Google+ Raspberry Pi:
1.05 million followers
Raspberry Pi forums:
221 000 active members
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ANNUALREVIEWLEARNING
It’s great to see the kids’ passion for
creating cool stuff with Pis and code.
That lightbulb moment makes all
the prep, setup, and pack-up timecompletely worth it.
Andrew Mulholland, Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam

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CONTENT &CURRICULUM
Our free online learning content helps people to get started
with digital making and to improve their computing skills.
Millions of people across the world use our resources tomake projects and learn new things.

On our website, we provide
clear and easy-to-follow
guides and tutorials formaking fun, worthwhile projects
and acquiring computing anddigital making skills along the way.
Learning through making is at theheart of all of our projects.

8.5

million unique users

learned through our
projects in 2017

208

online educational
projects, including
content for learning Scratch,
Python, Raspberry Pi, physicalcomputing, HTML/CSS, JavaScript,
and more70

new projects covering all
aspects and levels of ourCurriculum published in 2017

Activities:

We develop free and varied projectguides and educational resourcesthat cater for a range of interests andlevels of expertise. We believe that,in the right context, creating withtechnology is for everyone, so ouronline projects cover a whole rangeof topics from home automation andscience experiments to wearables andhigh-tech pranks. We offer playful
projects such as Cat meme generator,
practical projects such as Getting
started with GUIs, and technicallychallenging projects such as making
a distributed computer system usingeight Raspberry Pis.
Our Digital Making Curriculum
sets out the skills and understanding
needed to become an increasingly
more capable digital maker, giving
people opportunities to challengethemselves and learn more. Somepeople use our resources to makeprojects at home, and others develop
them into workshops for learners at
Code Clubs, Dojos, and events such as
Raspberry Jams. Educators use themto inspire the young people they workwith, both in extracurricular clubs
and in computing lessons.
Find a project to make at:
rpf.io/learn
Explore our Digital Making
Curriculum at:
rpf.io/curriculum

An essential tool
in my toolboxof maker-based
education
Kristi Taylor,
Code Club volunteer, USA

Achievements:n  Developed our Digital Making
Curriculum, which divides
digital making into five areasof learning and four levelsof challengen  Launched a new online
project platform mapped to
the Curriculum in order toguide users’ learningn  Updated 70 of our projects,
improving approaches tolearning, adding optional
hints, and guiding users
through the projects stepby stepn  Collaborated with
GCHQ on a series ofprojects on distributed
computing, cybersecurity,and cryptography

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EDUCATORSUPPORT

Our educator support programmes develop the skills andconfidence of teachers and other educators to create exciting
computing and digital making experiences for young people.

W

e offer free, high-quality
training for educators,
volunteers, parents, andlifelong learners who want to explore
learning through making and to passon their skills and knowledge. We doso in the form of Picademy, which
is our face-to-face training, and in
the form of our online courses on the
FutureLearn platform.

Activities:

Picademy is a two-day face-to-facetraining course where educators
learn from experts and work on
their own creative projects together
with other participants. The course
is designed to support and challengeboth educators new to computing
and digital making and thosewith more experience, including

primary teachers, secondary
computing teachers, librarians,
museum educators, youth
workers, and volunteers. Picademy
graduates become Raspberry Pi
Certified Educators.
Our online training takes theform of short, structured coursesthat guide learners through aseries of activities designed to

1517

Picademy
graduates(Raspberry Pi Certified
Educators, or RCEs) in our
educator community, whowork with an estimated 111 000
children and young people
every year339

educators trained in
Picademy UK eventsin 2017

312

educators trainedin Picademy North
America events in 201710countries and 32 US
states from which
Picademy participants camefrom in 201719 758activeparticipants in
our four online training courses

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Achievements:n  Developed new initiatives
to support the RCEcommunity, such as tools forplanning impactn  Picademy North America
team developed partnerships
with four institutions, andengaged statewide computerscience networks such as
the Rhode Island Office ofInnovation and the Idaho
STEM Action Center

give them a deeper understandingof computing education. They
offer simple explanations ofcomplex concepts, video andwritten content, and practicalactivities. The courses also provide
space for discussions between
learners, who support and help
one another to break down barriers
to entry regarding equipment andgetting started with computing anddigital making.
After participating in our training,educators take our approach oflearning through making back to
the young people they work with.
Many of them run extracurricular
activities to give their students
opportunities to get creative withtechnology and to learn skills

while making something they careabout. The educators also join our
wider community, often getting
involved with programmes suchas Code Club or CoderDojo, or with
Raspberry Jams.
Find out more about our educator
training at:
rpf.io/trainn  Launched four online training
courses in 2017, with two more
set to launch in early 2018◆  Teaching Programming inPrimary Schools◆  Teaching PhysicalComputing with Raspberry
Pi and Python◆  Object-oriented
Programming in Python:Create Your Own
Adventure Game◆  Prepare to Run a Code Club

Picademy was life-changing —for me, my students, and those whowill learn along with me
Robert Lane, Certified Educator, North America

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245 000

peopleinterested
in the Raspberry Pi community,
projects, news, and reviews read
The MagPi each month

15 000RASPBERRY PI
PRESSteachers, afterschool clubvolunteers, librarians, and othereducators from all over the worldsubscribe to Hello World

25 000people read
HackSpacemagazine each month to learn
about hacking and making withall kinds of technologies

Raspberry Pi Press supports and builds the Raspberry Pi
community through resources and publications that showcase
projects, share ideas, and help people learn from each other.

Achievements:n  Launched
Hello World,the magazine
for educatorsin the field ofcomputing anddigital making,in January 2017n  The MagPi
magazinesales increasedby over 20%
in 2017n  Launched
HackSpacemagazine in
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aspberry Pi Press produces
The MagPi, Hello World,and HackSpace magazines,
and a number of books. Our
publications are designed tohelp people to learn more about
digital making and to participate
in our community. Most of our

Activities:

In 2017 we expanded our publishingefforts with two new magazines:
Hello World is our magazine about
computing and digital making for
educators, where they can share
their approaches, experiences,and lesson plans; HackSpace magazine
provides people who love to makethings with tutorials and inspiration
for hacking the world around them.
Meanwhile, The MagPi, the official
Raspberry Pi magazine, continued to

articles and guides are written
by community members andeducators themselves. We offer all
our publications as free Creative
Commons–licensed PDF files fromday one, and print and digital
editions are available for purchasearound the world.

newcomers find their feet in theworld of learning and making
with Raspberry Pi.
Many thanks to our partners at
Computing At School for working
with us to make Hello World
possible, and to BT for supporting
the provision of free print copiesof the magazine to UK educators.

showcase the achievements of the
Raspberry Pi community, and we
added new titles to our The MagPi
Essentials series, which includes
guides on a range of topics fromlearning to code in C to hacking
and making with Minecraft. We
also published the third volume of
The Official Projects Book, a 200page omnibus of stand-out projects
and tutorials from The MagPi, and
The Official Beginner’s Book, a
116-page guide designed to help

The MagPi
The official
Raspberry Pi magazine:
magpi.cc
Hello WorldThe computing and digitalmaking magazine for educators:
helloworld.cc
HackSpace magazine
Technology in your hands:
hsmag.cc

RESEARCH

Achievements:

Our research work helps us to understand how to make thebiggest difference we can to people’s lives with the support,
resources, and activities we offer.

T

he research team works withothers across the Foundation
to collect and analyse data
about our programmes, to test
new approaches, and to learn
from the research of others incomputing education.

Areas of research:n  What impact are ourprogrammes having on children
and young people, and how can
we continually improve them?
n  What new approaches can weuse for teaching computing anddigital making?
n  What is academic research
telling us about computing
education, and how can we makepractical use of this knowledge?

Activities:

In 2017 we have continued to learn
from the success of our programmes
and to adapt and update them to help
people learn. We have also designed
and run trials testing different
approaches to learning in Code Clubs
and different ways of communicatingwith people to encourage them totake part in our programmes. Theren  Improved Picademy andshaped online training courses
with feedback from ourannual survey of Raspberry Pi
Certified Educators
is a whole community of people
researching computing education
across the world, and we make sureto keep in touch with them to learn
from their research and to share ourfindings so we can move the fieldforward together.

n  Recruited more new Code Club
hosts and volunteers throughour collaboration with the
Behavioural Insights Team,through which we aim to
improve our messaging using
behavioural science approaches

Published research is available at:
rpf.io/researchn  Visited Raspberry Pi Certified
Educators and teachers acrossthe UK to explore in depth
how they put our training into
practice and how they use
Raspberry Pi computers and ourresources to teach computingn  Trialled a new approachto learning in Code Club
using worked examples andcollaborative problem-solving,supported by Nestan  Published an independent
evaluation of Code Clubs
conducted by the National
Foundation for Educational
Research and supported by
Nesta and the Cabinet Office

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GOVERNANCE &PARTNERSHIPS
Supporting our Board of Trustees is a
wider group of Members, individuals
with significant expertise

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GOVERNANCE
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity(1129409), formed as a company limited by guarantee.

T

he Foundation is governedby a Board of Trustees thatis responsible for ensuring
we use our resources effectively toreach our charitable goals. Trustees
are volunteers who give theirtime freely to support the work of
the Foundation.
Supporting our Board of Trustees
is a wider group of Members, who areindividuals with significant expertiseand knowledge that supports our
mission. Membership is a voluntary
position. Members contributeto the Foundation’s strategic
direction, hold the Foundationto account, and advocate for our
mission. New Trustees are elected by
the Membership.
Jack Lang, one of our Founding
Members, stepped down as a Trustee
at the Annual General Meetingin November 2017. Jack has been
instrumental to the success of
Raspberry Pi from the very beginning,
and we would like to thank him forhis work over many years. Jon Drori
was elected to the Board of Trustees
at the same meeting.

Membersn  Matthew Postgate, Chief

His Royal Highness the Duke of Yorkn  Alan Mycroft, Professor ofComputing, University ofCambridge (Founding Member)

Trusteesn  Andy Rice, Senior Lecturer,
University of Cambridge Computer
Science Labn  Chris Mairs, Venture Partner,
Entrepreneur Firstn  Annika Small, Trustee, Design
Council, Wayra, and AccessTechnology Officer, Shazamn  David Cleevely, Chairman,
Raspberry Pi Foundation and cofounder, Cambridge Angelsn  Christine Swan, Director of ICT andEnterprise, Stourport High School
and Sixth Form Centre

Computer Science, Robinsonn  David Braben, CEO, Frontier
Developmentsn  David Willetts, Executive
Chairman, Resolution Foundation
and Visiting Professor, King’s
College London

Patronn  Jon Drori, Chair, Ravensbourne
Collegen  Louis Glass, Partner, CMSn  Pete Lomas, Director ofEngineering, Norcott Technologiesn  Sherry Coutu, Entrepreneur,
Investor, and Advisor to charities
and foundationsn  Tilly Blyth, Head of Collections,
Science Museum, London

Technology Officer, BBCn  Miles Berry, Principal Lecturer
for Computing Education,
University of Roehamptonn  Richard Sharp, Chiefand Director of Studies forCollege, Cambridgen  Rosemary Francis, Creator andCEO, Ellexusn  Rosemary Leith, Founding
Director, World Wide Web
Foundationn  Eben Upton, CEO, Raspberry Pi
Trading Ltd (Founding Member)n  Sarah Wood, Co-founder andn  Ian Livingstone, Non-executive
Chairman, Sumo UKn  Scott McGregor, formern  Jack Lang, Fellow and Entrepreneur
in Residence, Judge Business School(Founding Member)n  Lord Jim Knight, Chief Education
Advisor, TES and a member of theHouse of Lordsn  Joe Scarboro, Founder, Touchpaper
and COO, The Bot Platformn  Limor Fried, CEO, Adafruit
Industriesn  Martha Lane Fox, CEO, doteveryone
and a member of the House of Lords

CEO, Unruly
President and CEO, Broadcom
Corporation and former
President, Broadcom
Foundationn  Simon Peyton Jones, Principal
Researcher, Microsoft UK andChair, Computing At School(CAS)n  Sway Grantham, Primaryschool teacher specialising in
Computingn  Tim Peake, British astronaut,
European Space Agency (ESA)

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OUR PARTNERST
he work of the Raspberry Pi
Foundation is only possible
because we are part of a
fantastic and growing community thatshares our mission. This community
includes a wide range of individuals
and organisations who support
our work by providing funding, by
donating their valuable time andexpertise, by offering discounts,
or by lending in-kind support.
Special thanks to the following
individuals and organisations thathave supported the Raspberry Pi
Foundation, including Code Club andthe CoderDojo Foundation, in 2016–2017, and that continue to support us
in 2018:£500 000 and above£10 000 – £49 999n  Googlen  Adoben  The Shell Centenary
Scholarship Fundn  Atlassian Foundationn  Riot Games£250 000 – £499 999n  A&L Goodbodyn  Bloombergn  Broadcom Foundationn  Armn  Deloitten  The Cabinet Office/Nestan  The Digital Xtra Fundn  Microsoftn  Erasmus+£100 000 – £249 999n  Humble Bundlen  European Space Agencyn  Oraclen  The O’Sullivan Foundation£50 000 – £99 999n  BTn  Canary Wharf Ltdn  LIONS@FRICA
n  Lloyds Banking Groupn  LogMeIn
n  Norcott Technologiesn  The Platten Family Fund at theCommunity Foundation, Tyne
& Wear and Northumberlandn  CMSn  Salesforce.orgn  Dogpatch Labsn  Samsungn  Expo 2020 Dubain  Symantecn  Intel

n  UK Space Agencyn  Liberty Globaln  Mythic Beasts Ltdn  The Worshipful Company ofInformation Technologistsn  Workday, Inc.

n  Zalando Ireland

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In-kind/software support

Support our work today

15Five, Amazon Web Services,
Appcanary, Bullet, BrowserStack,
Bytemark, Bytes, CircleCI, CodeClimate, Contentful, DNS Made
Easy, dotmailer, edgescan,
Geekbot, GitHub, Google, Gravity
Forms, Freshdesk, Heroku,
Intercom, Laravel Forge, LastPass,
LearnUpon, MailChimp, Mailtrap,
New Relic, Papertrail, phpList,
pi-top, Pivotal, PCA Predict,
Proofpoint, ProsperWorks,
Segment, Sentry, Slack, Typeform,
Typekit, vzaar, WhosOff, Zapier,Zendesk, Zoom

If you or your organisation
would like to make a donation
towards our work, or discuss thepossibility of partnership, email
partners@raspberrypi.org for
more information.

Each year, we also receive hundredsof smaller donations fromindividuals and organisations.
Every donation helps us further
our educational mission.

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