Raising Future Engineers

When I woke up yesterday morning, I found my husband showing our three-year old how to light up a LED using a breadboard from his Raspberry Pi. If that statement makes absolutely no sense to you, think about how I feel! My three boys (the hubby and the two preschoolers) have been playing with this new-fangled contraption called Raspberry Pi which apparently is just basically a miniature computer.

The Raspberry Pi is the green board. The breadboard is the white one, and there is a miniature robot in the back from a previous project.

They have hooked it up to a breadboard and used some of our snap circuits to make it do cool stuff. The even did some soldering - a term I had to have explained to me by my five year old (I couldn't even figure out at first how to spell the word to write this blog post!). In addition, my not-yet-kindergartener is taking this Pi and using software called Scratch to do some simple drag-and-drop programming. This is waaaay beyond my understanding, but it is so cool. I love seeing my husband and kids getting excited about this.

Buddy playing Scratch

It is so amazing what they can learn when they are excited about something like this. Phil's enthusiasm is contagious.

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