Heritage High School teacher Nate Ubowski was one of forty teachers—out of 500 applicants—selected to attend Picademy. An intensive two-day training, Picademy is designed for teachers to learn about incorporating computer science and digital making into their schools and curriculums. 

Day one involved a series of workshops that introduced teachers to a range of engaging ways to deliver computing with students. Highlights included physical computing to control electronic components like LEDs and buttons, coding music with Sonic Pi and terraforming the world of Minecraft. Day two gave attendees the opportunity to apply their learning by developing their own project ideas and to learn from each other and the experts from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. After the two-day training, attendees joined the ranks of Raspberry Pi Certified Educators. 

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK-based educational charity. The foundation also owns the company that produces the Raspberry Pi computer—all profits made from selling the computers are reinvested into educational projects.