Digital Maker Stage 2 Activity Badge (Raspberry Pi)

Digital Maker Stage 2 Activity Badge (Raspberry Pi)

The Scouts have partnered with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, an amazing charity specialising in bringing digital making to people all over the world, to develop these badge requirements, new for May 2018. The new badge requirements move away from abstract concepts to use digital skills to solve problems, build resilience, help their communities and express themselves.

How to earn the badge:

In stage 2 you will demonstrate that you can complete digital projects which can be used in Scouting activities or in the wider world.

• Create a piece of interactive or animated digital art using software.
• Create a simple computer program to help with a scouting activity, and try it out.
• Make a simple digital creation that uses code to interact with the wider world through inputs (such as buttons or typing on a keyboard) and outputs (such as a computer screen, sound, or lights).

Top tips:

• For requirement 1, you could create a pixel art character with multiple frames, or use the Paint tool in Scratch to create a character with multiple poses.
• For requirement 2, you could use Scratch to make a game that helps you keep score in a wide game, or create a game to count compressions whilst doing CPR for your Emergency Aid Staged Activity Badge for example.
• For requirement 3, you could make a musical instrument or games controller using a Makey Makey, or use conductive play dough to make a simple circuit.
• You could use the digital art you have created in requirement 1 in either your program for requirement 2 or in your digital creation for requirement 3.

The above are only suggestions, and there are lots more things you can try!