Charity Film Awards
Charity Film Awards

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2025

Raspberry Pi Foundation
St Josephs, from rural Ireland to outer space, Ireland

Film & Campaign Description

When young people are given opportunities to learn and create with technology, they can do incredible things.

In our series of community stories, we celebrate some of the amazing young people and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them.

In this story, we’re shared the inspiring journey of St Joseph’s Secondary School in Rush, Ireland. Over the past few years, the school community has come together to encourage coding and digital skills, harnessing the European Astro Pi Challenge as an opportunity to kindle students’ enthusiasm for tech and teamwork.

We caught up with some of the educators and students at St Joseph’s, fresh off the success of their participation in another round of Astro Pi, to delve a little deeper into the school’s focus on making opportunities to engage with computing technologies accessible to all.

UN Sustainable Development Goal

4. Quality Education

Raspberry Pi Foundation

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a global charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.

Our vision

Our vision is that every young person develops:

  • The knowledge, skills, and confidence to use computers and digital technologies effectively in their work, community, and personal life; to solve problems and to express themselves creatively
  • Sufficient understanding of societal and ethical issues to be able to critically evaluate digital technologies and their application, and to design and use technology for good
  • The mindsets that enable them to confidently engage with technological change and to continue learning about new and emerging technologies

Our long-term goals

  1. Education: To enable any school to teach students about computing and how to create with digital technologies, through providing the best possible curriculum, resources, and training for teachers.
  2. Non-formal learning: To engage millions of young people in learning about computing and how to create with digital technologies outside of school, through online resources and apps, clubs, competitions, and partnerships with youth organisations.
  3. Research: To deepen our understanding of how young people learn about computing and how to create with digital technologies, and to use that knowledge to increase the impact of our work and advance the field of computing education.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

We align with the following UN Sustainable Development Goals: