Micro:bit Educational Foundation

About This Project

Summary

An ability to understand the digital world is vital to a young person’s life chances. By inspiring all children to learn digital skills, we increase the diversity of STEM students, to contribute to the creation of better technology. The Micro:bit Educational Foundation provides teacher content, products, partnerships & research, focusing particularly on supporting those in under-represented groups. The BBC micro:bit helps children learn how to create real-world solutions with technology and code

Goals & Objectives

The Micro:bit Educational Foundation is a non-profit that aims to inspire every child to create their best digital future. We develop hardware and software to inspire young people; create free educational resources to support teachers; and work with like-minded partners across the globe.

Results & Impact

By keeping our resources free and the micro:bit devices as low-cost as possible, to date: - 63 million students have learnt with micro:bit - 11 million micro:bits have been distributed - Across 80+ countries around the world - 90% of students agreed that micro:bit showed me that anyone can code