Digital Maker Stage 5 Activity Badge (Raspberry Pi)

Digital Maker Stage 5 Activity Badge (Raspberry Pi)

The Scouts have partnered with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, an amazing charity specialising in bringing digital making to people all over the world, to develop these badge requirements, new for May 2018. The new badge requirements move away from abstract concepts to use digital skills to solve problems, build resilience, help their communities and express themselves.

How to earn the badge:

In stage 5, you will combine your digital making skills to identify and solve a real problem in the local or global community. You will go through the process of project design from concept, to testing and implementation, and finally to sharing your new knowledge with others.

• Identify a real-life local or global problem and design, build, test, and improve a solution by combining your digital making skills and selecting appropriate software tools, digital devices, components, and materials.
• Create and share a resource that would allow someone else to replicate your project with minimal previous knowledge. This resource should be digital, and it can be any format you like: a video (or a series!), an online (printable) document, an entry on a tutorials website such as Instructables, a blog post...Or meet with people who could benefit from your solution to share how you created it and explain how it can help them.

Top tips:

• For requirement 1, you could develop a digital device that makes a Scouting activity accessible to a young person with a disability, or you could design a low-cost educational kit that would allow young people in developing countries to access digital making.