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The Great micro:bit Education Giveaway!

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imageThe Great micro:bit Education Giveaway

About Giveaway Contest | micro:bit | STEM Academy

 

 

Hello Community!

 

WINNERS HAVE NOW BEEN SELECTED! SEE THEM HERE:

 

The Great micro:bit Education Giveaway - Winners!

 

Back to School season is upon us! For many students and educators, the month of August signifies a return to school, and to shopping for the classroom. This past June, members of the element14 Community team were able to attend the ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) convention, which took place this year in Chicago. We stood guard at the micro:bit booth, not only to help the great people from the foundation handle the onslaught of questions about the micro:bitmicro:bit, but also to learn more about this wonderful SBC.

 

One of the most impactful things we learned while we were in attendance was that teachers of all grade-levels and experience were keen to integrate the micro:bit into their curriculum, but many voiced that they did not have the budget nor the technical expertise to do so. While the micro:bit Educational Foundation provides a wide array of resources to get started, they unfortunately cannot give the boards away for free.

 

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This is where we come in! We were so inspired by all of the educators we got to speak with that our fearless leader, Dianne Kibbey, the Global Head of the element14 Community tasked us to come up with a program to get micro:bit into the hands of as many learners as possible.

 

So, with that in mind, we bring you our Great micro:bit Education Giveaway!

 

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Phase 1:

 

We will be giving our 25 selected contestants micro:bit Clubmicro:bit Club packs, which each contain 10 micro:bit boards, battery adapters, batteries, and USB cables. The micro:bit is a global product, so this contest is open to all countries!

 

Phase 1 is now complete! Thank you so much for all your entries, they're amazing and we can't wait to read them (we've gotten a head start on that, to tell the truth). Please feel free to continue discussing the contest in the comments section here, but unfortunately we can no longer accept new applications. Everyone who has submitted prior to this note being added is considered an applicant.

 

To enter, please:

 

1) Register on the Community, if you are not yet a member.

 

2) In the comments section below on this document, post your answers to the following questions:

 

• Who are you? What is your background as an educator? And don't worry, we're welcoming educators of all levels of experience. If you're trying to help students learn about coding and working with electronics, we want you! (Please do not post your address or other personal information in your application here, just general information about your background. Feel free to use your username if you'd prefer not to post your full name.)

 

• How would you use these micro:bits in your classroom, after school club, or wherever you might be trying to help others learn to code?

 

Enrollment begins August 20th, 2018. You will have until September 19th to submit your application as a comment on this document, after which our team will review the applications and select the participants on September 24th. We've chosen to place these applications in the comments on this document so that you can discuss your plan with other educators, give tips to those whose work is similar to yours, and so you can potentially be inspired by them!

 

Selected Winners:

 

rxtx

ienjoyteaching

straytech

tguellich

nsouthwell

julianrendell

joeczar-scde

gusmerckel

heathmacnelson

bfvillaluna

andyforeverest

yg@ap

atomclub

ahobbs

darrell.little

davelnewton

gevans@hoover.k12.al.us

tinalf

mrsdlloyd

onespacez

rancell

petersvedman

dasoussan

lrjones

monsieurblamoureux

 

Congratulations to our selected winners! We have decided to give away 25 micro:bit Club packs due to how many amazing entries we received. We will be contacting the selected members via email shortly about the next steps, so please respond no later than October 1st, 2018. Due to trade regulations, it is possible that certain countries will be disallowed for shipping, but this is (thankfully!) very rare.

We have also selected alternates should those listed above not respond or if we are not able to ship to their countries. Once you receive your Club pack you can get started on Phase 2!

 

Phase 2:

 

Once you are selected as a winner, you will have 10 weeks to implement you project plan and document it on the Community. Your blogs / vlogs must be posted to the community by December 3rd. The documentation requirements will be the following:

 

1) Write up a blog (or do a video blog) about your project.

 

2) Your blog or vlog must have a syllabus/lesson plan that includes the following information:

 

• what ages and/or grade-level(s) it's aimed toward

• what subject/s does it cover

• what are the project goals

• step-by-step instructions including any print-outs, bill of materials (BOM)

• photos and/or videos

 

On December 10th we will select three (3) educators who have completed their documentation on the Community to win a prize pack of micro:bit accessories and other items that will expand the potential of this powerhouse little board. To be eligible as a contestant and to potentially receive prizes you must submit your comments and blogs according to the schedule of dates below. Also, see below for prize details.

 

Important Dates

 

Enrollment BeginsAugust 20th, 2018
Enrollment EndsSeptember 19th, 2018
Contestants AnnouncedSeptember 24th, 2018
All Blogs DueDecember 3rd, 2018
Winning Blogs AnnouncedDecember 10th, 2018

 

 

Prizes

 

We're also RoadTesting some great micro:bit accessories and expansion kits, including some of the prizes offered here. Check them out!

 

 

BOSON Starter Kit + micro:bit

 

:MOVE mini buggy kit + microbit


:GAME ZIP 64 for the BBC micro:bit

 

micro:bit wear:it Development Kit

 

 

 

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element14 Minode Kitelement14 Minode Kit

 

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element14 Wear:it Kitelement14 Wear:it Kit

 

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Kitronik Inventor's KitKitronik Inventor's Kit

 

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Kitronik Move mini Robot KitKitronik Move mini Robot Kit

 

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Proto-Pic Micro:Pixel LED Expansion BoardProto-Pic Micro:Pixel LED Expansion Board

 

Our goal for the Great micro:bit Education Giveaway is to help teachers get micro:bit in the hands of their students and, in doing so, help other educators to do the same. As everyone knows, often the best way to teach something is by example. So get your ideas together and let us know -- What would you do with micro:bit in the classroom?

 

micro:bit Resources

 

http://microbit.org/guide/

 

10 micro:bit Projects in 10 Days

 

An Introduction to Computer Science with BBC micro:bit: The Full Curriculum

 

BBC micro:bit Poster | Free Download for your Classroom

 

See Projects by our VCP micromonsters

 

micro:bit Basics for Teachers

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 6 years ago +15
    This is a really nice giveaway, and the outcome blogs/vlogs could generate some great ideas on how to use this with kids. While I'd played with a micro:bit briefly in the past, I'd not used it with kids…
  • e14mindi
    e14mindi over 6 years ago in reply to shabaz +11
    Hello Shabaz, You are so quick with catching these posts that you caught us while we were finalizing the details on this one! Thank you so much for the feedback. One of the things that I found the most…
  • cnlow
    cnlow over 6 years ago +5
    I'm trained in STEM, currently I'm a volunteer in coaching high school students in the making of STEM projects. I just initiated a Code Club (according to Raspberry Pi Foundation) that teaches students…
  • korn
    korn over 6 years ago

    I didn't bother to enter because my boss bought me a couple of club packs. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

     

    these are great teaching tools and just plain fun.

     

    I had a few robot chassis around so I built some custom motor drivers and made a joystick remote too


    heres a little more info

     

    https://commons.pratt.edu/open-source/microbit-brained-robots/

     

    looking forward to reading your blogs.

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  • korn
    korn over 6 years ago in reply to cybermah

    Good luck with the school. you'll have a great time watching them play with the Microbits.

     

    I had the kids at our library program robots with microbit brains. So far just using RF remote control. next we add line following capability.

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  • coolnumber9
    coolnumber9 over 6 years ago

    Hi, I'm Kristoffer, a Firmware/Software Engineer, and recently ventured into building a tech startup here in Cebu, Philippines. I love tinkering with hardware as well as coding. Locally, I make steps in contributing anything I can in promoting STEAM Education in the Philippines. Together with other passionate volunteers, we created IoT Cebu { http://iotcebu.io/ }, a grassroots community of tinkerers, professionals, hobbyists, startups, etc. Recently, we also started The Things Network Cebu (TTN Cebu) {https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/cebu-city/ } as part of contributing to the community through technology.

     

    As for teaching kids, this is very close to my heart. In fact, I'm planning to start a Code Club for kids. I always try to influence my sons to get interested in programming through our geeky projects. I would love to be able to introduce micro:bit to young learners here in Cebu, Philippines. image

     

    Here in our local community, I plan to bring young learners together to learn coding through micro:bit. There are a lot of kids playing games in internet cafes and I would like to encourage these kids to learn coding instead of just playing games all night. Further, our home is 5 minutes walking distance to my eldest son's school. I also plan to introduce micro:bit to Graders 4-6 at my son's school.

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  • invokelogic
    invokelogic over 6 years ago

    Who are you? What is your background as an educator?

    We are a group of five community volunteers at our local library who are creating an opportunity starting with middle school students to learn to write code.  While there are currently 5 of us; we hope to recruit more volunteers as our program progresses.  Four of us are software engineers.  One has conducted a high school robotics program for several years, another has taught 3rdgraders who to code through his company’s program.  The third hardware engineer has helped in a library STEM program this summer, focusing on aviation for middle school students.  The fourth software engineer manages an annual library Film Festival and is creating one just for school kids which will be active this fall.  The fifth person is a community volunteer who is organizing this effort and has taught high school and middle school for several years…many years ago.

     

    How would you use these micro:bits to help others learn to code?

    We are offering beginning coding workshops twice a month in Canby Oregon beginning in October 2018 and we hope that the program expands as interest grows. We have already filled up our first months of seats!

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  • rcolistee
    rcolistee over 6 years ago

    I'm professor of Physics at a public/federal university in a small city (population is 32 thousand) of Brazil, working with Physical Computing since 2015 with focus on sensors and IoT.

     

    I've bought some BBC Micro:bits in the last 1-2 years to test and employ them on research projects using the builtin sensors (accelerometer and magnetometer), and in last semester one official course for graduating students (Physics and Geology) using a small quantity of BBC Micro:bits. All software development is done using MicroPython, as it is powerful and easier for the students, even without any previous knownledge of programming. I'have developed MicroPython drivers for external sensors connecting to BBC Micro:bit, like MAX44009 light sensor, AS7262/3 nano spectrometer, etc. Another contribution is the development of MicroPython scientific modules compatible with BBC Micro:bit (with only 9KB of free RAM !) for error propagation, statistics, signal processing, etc. See (https://github.com/rcolistete/).

     

    My need and proposal to employ 10 more BBC Micro:bits :

    - courses for large number of students (10-20), with 1 BBC Micro:bit for 1-2 students, so the interaction is improved, targetting university students (using MicroPython) and also young and low-income people (using Javascript Blocks and MicroPython) in non-profit organizations and public schools;

    - development of more research projects with BBC Micro:bit using different sensors + IoT, applied to demonstrate live experiments at Physics classrooms and laboratories, sense seismic data (in Geophysics) from many BBC Micro:bit collected by using Bluetooth, low cost (tens of USD) nano-spectrometer + BBC Micro:bit with many of applications, low cost UV (ultraviolet) portable/wearable devices to help avoid skin cancer, etc;

    - as a consequence of the above activities, develop more in MicroPython for BBC Micro:bit, publishing more FOSS software for drivers, scientific tools, etc.

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  • rxtx
    rxtx over 6 years ago

    I am a leader of an informal group of makers and educators based in Poland. Since 2014 I've taught workshops on electronics and coding to hundreds of people in all sorts of setups ranging from one-day gatherings to large educational programmes running for months. I have taken my classes abroad to Barcelona and Singapore, mentored students at hackathons (including MedHacks, the largest medical hackathon in the US), ran my own hardware hackathons as well, and spoke at events and meetups in Shanghai and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I have worked in diverse contexts including huge government-run science centres, small alternative schools and self-organized hack nights in people's private apartments. For the year 2019, me and my team are preparing to run classes in several European and Southeast Asian countries, mainly focused on Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, robotics and rapid prototyping.

     

    It would be a great opportunity for us to expand the class cirricula to include the micro:bit, which we have not worked with yet. Our aim is to present the boards to adults as well as children, as to our recognition, the micro:bit is one of the most advanced educational platforms for visual programming, and the Micro Python capability looks very promising as well - it's certainly not only for kids, and plenty of adults want to learn as well. The whole ecosystem is very complete and coherent, a huge advantage for training more educators to use the boards in their classes.

     

    We are mainly interested in micro:bit's applications in robotics and wearables, as we have amassed a portfolio of projects in those fields and hope to do a lot more in the future. We collaborate with plenty of artists and teachers whom we would like to invite to create scenarios for project-centred lessons. Presently our focus is on addressable LEDs, in the form of rings, strips, panels and flexible sheets. Being colorful and shiny, they are loved by the children, at the same time being a safe educational resource providing instant reward. Among other features, we would like to combine the LEDs with the micro:bit's accelerometer and compass to encourage kids and adults as well to create unique visual effects with spatial awareness capabilities. A long-term goal is then to take those installations to Southeast Asia and run workshops in underpriviledged communities, as we got several requests from such groups and had to turn them down in the past for lack of resources.

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  • karthickiot
    karthickiot over 6 years ago

    Hello.

    I am G. Karthick Kumar Reddy an educator and my role is to mentor the students in the Physics subject. As Science is the subject which deals with the learning concepts to educate, rethink and perform activities for thorough understanding by students on the earth environmental and its dynamical role in day to day life. As a Physicist, I would like my students to learn the concepts of Physics like Light, Sound, Heat, Fluid flows, mechanics, dynamics, etc. When I was dealing a concept on temperature and its impacts on the earth, one of my student asked me a question that “How do the earth temperature is going to effect the human life?” This shows how the young minds are thinking about the concepts more. As an educator, I would like to make them to understand the concepts of Physics practically by using the latest technology IoT hardware kits like Micro:Bit.

    The micro: bit kit is used to measure the environment parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, wind speed. These parameters are most commonly controlled the dynamics of global wind circulations, weather changes, plants and crop growth control, energy generation, etc. All this concepts can be well understand with the data collected from the Digital sensors like temperature, humidity, pressure, accelerometer, magnetometer which are interfaced to the Micro:bit via additional Arduino MCU kit.

    My present aim is to conduct a practical awareness for students how to monitor the environmental parameters using the Micro:bit kits out of 10 kits, each kit is given to a team of three students and ask them to collect data while they are going to home. After collecting data my role is to explain them how the temperature is showing variations at various places at different time. Te coding to the Micro:bit can be a best learning concept to the students. In the next case if they want to measure in remote area they can design the robotic toy and can be controlled using the Smartphone app.

    This experiment is conducted in agriculture areas, forests, industrial areas, cities, villages, etc. to understand better how the temperature is changing at different places. I hope this kit will be useful for students in schools, colleges, universities to study the concepts of Science. It also helps the educators like me to teach and make them to understand the concepts practically. As I am a well experienced in programming in C, C++, Java, Phyton in Arduino IDEs, Energia, Keil, Cube 32 IDEs and hardware IOT devices like Raspberry Pi, Intel Edison, Arduino 101, etc kits the micro:bit be a suitable IoT device for students in my opinion.

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  • mrrenne
    mrrenne over 6 years ago

    I am a middle school STEM/Technology Educator. I have been using and teaching with micro:bits for a couple of school years in the classroom, at after-school clubs, at summer camps, and at educator professional development sessions. I have also used numerous micro:bit accessories, including those by Adafruit and Pimoroni. The micro:bit is an absolutely amazing tool to teach engineering, design, STEM, and computer science to new technology learners. I would love to use a micro:bit Club pack to help more of my students participate in the Global Goals for Sustainable Development micro:bit Challenge. I have a couple of micro:bits on-hand now, but would love to give this opportunity to more of my students. You can learn more about our classroom/makerspace blog at mmslaunchlab.com.

     

    Thanks for the opportunity!

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  • betarlg
    betarlg over 6 years ago

    My name is Roberta and I'm an Associated Professor at the Computer Science Department of a Brazilian Federal University (since 2006).

     

    For about 8 years, I've been coordinating a project that consists on offering free introductory programming courses to state school students that are socially deprived, in our region.  One of our goals is to attract young people to the IT area, as in Brazil (as all around) we are facing an important shortage of IT professionals. Besides, we're trying to empower these students through an effective digital inclusion.

     

    As part of the introductory programming course, we organise a number of "Hacking days" in order to motivate the students with more practical programming activities. Currently, we use different software or technologies in the Hacking days, like Scratch, Web Design and Robotics with Arduino. With Micro:bit, the idea is to replace what we've been using and exclusively employ Micro:bit as the platform for all the Hacking days, with different programming contents and challenges.

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    auv over 6 years ago

    My name is Ausencio, I belong to a group of engineers called "Los Hijos del Rey Arduino",  we are in facebook  https://www.facebook.com/HijosDelReyArduino , and in youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPIfKy0iwag&t=30s we have experience in middle and high school, in physics, mathematics and programming. Actually i am teaching Robotics using Arduino, specifically in Mexico City at Colegio de Bachilleres 15.

    My plan is to substitute Arduino with Microbit in robotics laboratory.

    We are very interested in Microbit because powerful hardware and simplicity in programming. Microbit has embedded various sensors and actuators, and we are enthusiast to use it in Robotic Practices.

    We have been working with Arduino in classroom since 3 years ago, and since 5 months ago we have been studying Microbit hardware and its programming. For teaching purposes we find Microbit  more complete and easier to use. We have experience in developing lab material for Arduino and we have the enthusiasm to  do it for Microbit.

    We have read terms and conditions for this Contest. We agree to comply with this terms.

     

     

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