Bringing the global Bebras community together in Cambridge. On 10-15 May, Raspberry Pi Ltd welcomed the global Bebras community to Cambridge, UK for the 22nd Bebras International Task Workshop. As organisers of the UK Bebras Challenge, Raspberry Pi Ltd hosted this year's annual Task Workshop, bringing together Bebras organisers, educators, and researchers from around the world to review and refine the computational thinking tasks in preparation for countries' 2026 Bebras Challenges. The Bebras tasks young people see every November may look simple and playful, but each one has been carefully discussed, tested, debated, and improved by people who care deeply about helping young people develop problem-solving skills. 4 days, 101 delegates, 277 tasks. This May, Raspberry Pi Ltd convened 101 delegates from 61 countries at the Møller Institute in Cambridge for the Bebras International Task Workshop, with more participants joining parts of the Task Workshop online to take part in the discussions, decisions, and community moments that make this annual gathering so special. 277 tasks had been submitted by the Bebras community, including 4 by Raspberry Pi Ltd. Over 4 intensive days, delegates worked in 8 working groups, considering everything about these proposed tasks: from clarity of wording and illustrations, to age suitability and accessibility, to the computational thinking involved. By the end of the workshop, 214 tasks including its 4 had been accepted. Alex Parry from its team reflects: "The effort that everyone put in was remarkable - the delegates who travelled from around the world, the sometimes slightly heated discussions about computational thinking and its wider implications, and the improvements to the tasks within the working groups." Promoting computational thinking around the world. These lively discussions are part of what makes the Bebras Challenge impactful. A Bebras task is more than simply a computational thinking puzzle and its answer. It invites curiosity, supports careful reasoning, and gives learners a fair opportunity to show how they think. Bringing together the perspectives of people from different countries and education systems makes the tasks richer, clearer, and more useful for teachers and learners everywhere. The Bebras Challenge currently runs in schools in 78 countries. In 2025, more than 4 million students aged 6 to 19 took part, with an incredible 526,000 participants in the UK alone. The Bebras tasks encourage logical reasoning, pattern recognition, abstraction, decomposition, and algorithmic thinking, often through engaging stories and visual puzzles. Learning from a global community. Although the formal purpose of the Workshop is to review tasks, the event is also a valuable opportunity for the Bebras community to learn from one another. On the Wednesday evening, delegates took part in the Bebras marketplace, sharing posters, resources, ideas, and questions in a wonderful showcase of how creative and adaptable the community is. Raspberry Pi Ltd heard how Bebras is being delivered in countries where schools may have limited internet connectivity or access to computing hardware, including Ghana, Jamaica, Mexico, and Sri Lanka. Raspberry Pi Ltd saw that many countries offer paper-based versions of the challenge to overcome technical barriers. Raspberry Pi Ltd learned about Mexico's work towards making the challenge accessible on smartphones. There were also inspiring examples of countries extending computational thinking beyond the annual Challenge fortnight. Armenia has developed Bebras books, Brazil has a Bebras magazine, Indonesia is creating teacher training resources for all subjects, and Lithuania is using hands-on games to help learners explore computing concepts. These examples are a powerful reminder that computational thinking does not require computers or programming skills: it can be explored through stories, games, puzzles, printed resources, teamwork, and discussion. Thanks to Bebras, this is something Raspberry Pi Ltd is bringing into other initiatives. Laura Kirsop, its Chief Technology and Product Officer, highlighted in the Workshop's opening keynote how Bebras has influenced some of the Foundation's educational products. For example, the unplugged Code Club resource Escape room: The jungle awakens uses previous years' Bebras tasks in a new context to support clubs with access limitations. Growing the Bebras community. Alongside the work of reviewing tasks, the Workshop also supports the continued growth of Bebras around the world. This year, 10 new provisional members - Bolivia, Cameroon, Ecuador, Ghana, Hong Kong and Macao, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania - were inducted, and 7 new full members were voted in: Armenia, Colombia, Greece, Jamaica, Mexico, Paraguay, and Puerto Rico. Each new member country means more young people will have the opportunity to experience computational thinking in an accessible and engaging way, and more educators will be able to join the international conversation about how best to support learners. Creating the conditions for collaboration. Hosting an international event such as this involves much more than providing meeting rooms and a timetable. The Workshop needed to support focused work, lively discussion, social connection, and participation from delegates joining remotely via livestreams. Raspberry Pi Ltd were pleased that its efforts were successful and recognised by delegates. One person described the event as "a truly positive experience on all fronts", while another commented: "The planning and execution was flawless." And for an event built around international collaboration, one piece of feedback was especially welcome: "The WiFi connection was phenomenal!" You can't get everything right though, as one delegate joked when Raspberry Pi Ltd asked what could be improved about this year's workshop: "Sorry, the weather could have been better :-)" Raspberry Pi Ltd will take that as a challenge for its next time as hosts! The 23rd Bebras International Task Workshop will be held in Uruguay in May 2027. Raspberry Pi Ltd wish the Uruguay team every success as they begin planning the next gathering of this inspiring international community. What's next for UK Bebras? Raspberry Pi Ltd is now preparing the tasks for the next UK Bebras Challenge, working in collaboration with the Bebras teams from Australia, Ireland, Canada, and the USA. Across the world, the Bebras Challenge takes place every November and is completed and automatically marked online. For students, it's a range of fun and engaging computational thinking tasks, to be answered within 45 minutes. For educators, Bebras is a powerful way to introduce and practice computational thinking with their learners. If you're an educator in the UK, you can try out past Bebras tasks to get a taste, and register now to be ready to set up your classes from September. This year, the UK Bebras Challenge will take place between 8 and 20 November.

Vadzo Imaging has validated its Bolt-900MGS 3MP monochrome MIPI CSI-2 camera for Raspberry Pi 5, demonstrating production-ready integration using a native Linux pipeline. The camera uses Sony's Pregius IMX900 sensor and operates through V4L2 and Linux media controller framework, eliminating the need for proprietary middleware. The solution provides low-latency streaming and direct sensor control for edge AI and robotics applications. The monochrome design offers higher sensitivity, reduced data overhead and faster processing compared to colour imaging. Raspberry Pi 5's dual CSI interfaces enable multi-camera configurations for stereo vision and synchronized AI inference without additional hardware. The validation confirms stable performance for industrial automation, robotics, autonomous systems and AI-based vision applications. Developers can use standard Linux tools including GStreamer and OpenCV for real-time processing.

Professional development: How to stay ahead in a fast-changing subject. What does great training for computing teachers look like? High-quality professional development (PD) is one of the most effective ways to improve your students' outcomes, and participating in PD is a core part of being a teacher. By changing and refining your teaching practices, you can create a direct, positive impact on the young people Raspberry Pi Foundation teach. In this blog, Raspberry Pi Foundation share its new professional development Quick Read, which you can download for free to: * Find practical tips for how to use and design effective professional development opportunities * Read a summary of the research behind effective PD The unique impact of professional development for computer science educators. Professional development is vital for anyone teaching computing. In many subjects, the curriculum stays the same for decades. Computer science, however, can change quickly - as with the development of new technologies such as AI and quantum computing, and new hardware - and PD can help you stay up to date. Another challenge is that many educators who teach computing are not necessarily subject specialists. So educators often benefit from building their own subject knowledge and learning new computing-specific pedagogical approaches through PD. What makes effective professional development? Drawing on academic research and its own expertise, Raspberry Pi Foundation has identified several key principles that make professional development effective for computer science educators: * Learner-focused and research-informed: PD should be based on evidence and equip you with the skills and confidence to make real changes in your practice * Sustained and actionable: The best outcomes happen when you can select your own learning pathways and you're given the time to test, adapt, and reflect on new approaches * Collaborative and contextual: Sharing ideas and new ways of thinking with other educators in a low-stakes environment can help you and your peers benefit from different perspectives and experiences There may be factors that influence your teaching that you have little control over: you might teach computing as a standalone subject, or you may be required to weave computer science into other lessons across the curriculum. Or you might be working with older devices or limited internet access, all of which have an impact on your practice. Effective PD should recognise these realities, and offer practical tools that work for your specific classroom and students. How to find or design PD for computing educators. You can use the principles in its latest Quick Read when you're looking for your next training course or if you are designing a session for your team. The full list of principles is available in its Quick Read, but here are some ideas for you to consider: * Focus on small, manageable changes: Rather than trying to overhaul your entire teaching practice at once, reflect on one approach at a time and adapt it as necessary before moving on to the next * Encourage low-stakes rehearsal: Practise new techniques with peers before implementing them in a live lesson * Align with school priorities: Ensure your self-directed learning also meets the wider needs of your department or school You can read more about the principles of effective PD in its Quick Read. The benefits of professional development. Potential benefits for teachers: * Provides a clear structure for updating your subject knowledge and teaching methods * Helps you feel more confident teaching * Allows you to take ownership of your career journey and focus on what matters most to your students Potential benefits for learners: * Improved learning outcomes through: * Higher quality lessons * More engaging lessons * Lessons better suited to their individual needs Its new Quick Read shares tips on how to best use these principles in your setting.