Hi there – how lovely. I submitted my son’s poster via email. It is not clear if it is only the people who mailed in the poster will receive a pi. Is this the same for the people who emailed?

Hi, I’ve tried to find my son’s entry (which was posted before the New Year, so well before deadline) on the wall, but can’t seem to find it despite checking a couple of times (I could be blind!). Does the video show all mailed-in posters, or are more to go up? He’s regularly been checking with me whether I’d heard anything about the Pi posters, and I really hope his entry wasn’t lost in the post or something. Hopefully I’m just being a bit blind! Thanks

Very cool! Some of those posters look awesome ;-)

That music makes me very sleepy indeed… Zzz

The Raspberry Pi Guy

Just interested if you’ve seen my email submission? Its the one with the “picade” (program it yourself arcade games) and the laser etcher. Although it was a bit of a humerus submission, designed to make you smile. Just wanted to know what you thought :)

I’ve started on the “picade” and hope to email you before the end of feb with the completed project details (maybe)

thanks

Dan

you win 1 Internet & 10 dogecoins just for using the vision on gallery music :) there just wasn’t anything else you could use for the video music :)

If you don’t mind me asking has anyone seen my pi-light project???

Ah… Those are great! Remember, don’t let your chickens starve and protect your sweets! (and all that other stuff).
By the way, I think the nature of a good engineer is to be just lazy enough to want to automate the boring things.

Awwww.

So good! Well done everybody =o) I think our future is firmly in safe hands…

And pleased that, in the words of Hot Chocolate, (almost) “Everyone’s a winner, baby”.

You know, we’ve been worried that no one will be able to step into our engineering shoes to take over the jobs we’ve been doing for lo these many decades. Maybe we’ve been going at this all wrong and we shouldn’t expect the next generation to just take over doing the same old things we have. When they say that something should be so easy that a child could do it, maybe we just need to let them make it so! :lol:

Beautiful entries. Fantastic. And well done for finding the extra Rpis.

I ask, with some trepidation, whether the cut-off point for the deadline of the 8th January expired at 12 midnight on the end of the 7th, or 12 midday on the 8th, or office closing, or middnight on the 8th. (Because my son’s submission was emailed in on the 8th and I don’t want to raise his hopes if that was after the deadline.)

Thanks. (He had fun doing it, but I know he’d quite like to win a pi as well.)
Ian

Thank you. That’s great news.

Keep that wall safe! It will be worth a fortune in 20 years when the Pi generation grow up.

Many new potential Steve/Sarah Jobs are up there, and I think they will make Apple look like they made rather expensive kids toys.

The entries look amazing!

Superb show from the foundation for supporting each and every kid, will encourage them so much knowing their effort means something!

Please Please Please can you tell me if my has reached you as I am very worried! (I emailed it and it is called Pi-Light)

Please buy a tripod for your video camera … It will make presentations like this much better….

Just for future – how about a Rapbian wallpaper competition?

Absolutely delighted at St Barnabas CE First and Middle with our allocation of 5 Pis – thank you so much :)

Hi Liz and gang! well done for all your hard work. My children are pestering me as to when they will receive the Pi kits? They were super excited to see there posters in the videos! Thanks for helping make computing more fun.

In our house the strong positive of the poster competition is turning into a negative. When you’re 6, the time lag between being promised something and that something happening really matters. We were strongly pro-pi before the poster competition, then even more so once we knew we were going to be sent one, then fading gradually when January turned to February, then strongly pro again when we had a letter promising it by the end of Feb, and now my son is not even interested in using Daddy’s pi because his own one didn’t arrive after all. Folks, I know you’re busy and lots of exciting stuff is happening and lots of good is already coming of the pi foundation, but details like this matter. Please don’t put my pro-computing son off by promising and not delivering. The competition is currently having exactly the opposite of the intended effect in this household. Sorry this sounds like a rant but at the moment, I would rather the competition had never happened. I am still behind what you’re doing, but please move this up the priority list before you lose a 6 year old fan. Best wishes, Rob

Thanks for your reply, Ben. I certainly know you’re not sitting around doing nothing. Lots of good work is going on. I just wanted to flag up that getting a letter from the foundation’s CEO saying to expect it by the end of the month is taken very literally by a 6 year old. Good luck with achieving the sizeable but important task.
Best wishes
Rob

I just wanted to thank you for the Pi kit which arrived about an hour ago. The level of excitement is massive. There is something special for a 6 year old about having his own Pi. It came in a nice box and very attractively packaged, which helps too. He’s set raspbian up from the noobs card and is downloading minecraft as we speak. I’m sure great things will follow over time. Thank you.