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Want to see what you can do with your Raspberry Pi? Check out these cool activities!

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Take a look at what other people are building with their Raspberry Pi!

Learn about your raspberry Pi

One of the best ways to learn about programming is by taking apart and rebuilding electronics.  Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and many other famous programmers got their start building and programming computers as kids.  The Raspberry Pi is a great device with which to do this yourself!

The Raspberry Pi is an entire computer in a very small package.  It may just look like a computer chip, but don't let its small size fool you!  You can program this device to play music, make games, build robots, power weather balloons and more.  There is even a Raspberry Pi in space right now!

The best part about it is that when you attend a Young Coders Society event, you get your very own Raspberry Pi to keep.  It is yours to explore, tinker with, create and (if things go wrong) break!  Sometimes that is the best way to learn.

We think you will have a lot of fun with the Raspberry Pi.  We certainly do!

Why is it called a Raspberry Pi?

When the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a British Non-Profit, created an inexpensive but powerful computing device, they had to decide what to name it.  There is a long tradition of naming computer hardware after fruit.  Apple, Blackberry and MacIntosh are names we have all heard, but going back to earlier computing history there were devices such as the Tangerine, as well as a line of computers named Apricot.  The 'Raspberry' is a continuation of that tradition.  'Pi' is a shortened version of 'Python', a popular programming language for beginning programmers and a very useful one for many Raspberry Pi projects.  Thus the Raspberry Pi was born!