Microsoft

Hack:Bit 2018 – Sri Lanka’s first national hackathon to tackle Micro:bit

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Sarvodaya Fusion and Micro:bit SLUG, together with Microsoft, recently held a two-day inter-school and university hackathon called Hack:Bit 2018 at Trace Expert City. The ...
Ars Technica

BBC Micro:bit—a free single-board PC for every Year 7 kid in the UK

The BBC has unveiled the Micro:bit, the spiritual successor of the 8-bit, beige-box BBC Micro released way back in 1981. To try and propel the Micro:bit to a comparable echelon of usefulness and ...
Microsoft

Microsoft hosts Computer Science Education Day in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: Microsoft on 8 Feruary held its flagship computer science workshop for students and teachers at its corporate office in Colombo. Over 100 participants, representing public, private ...
Mashable

I've built a metronome with BBC's micro:bit and British school kids can too

The BBC has a great idea: Send a free gadget to a million 11- and 12-year-old students in Britain to help them learn programming. Called the micro:bit, it started being delivered to kids in March; ...
Ars Technica

BBC starts sending free Micro:bit computers to a million UK students

Starting from this morning, March 22, about a million teachers and students across the UK will begin to receive a free BBC Micro:bit computer. The idea is to get an ...