Kids across Canada are launching their code into space!

KCJ Amanda Myerson - Feb 9, 2020

All over Canada, kids are participating in Astro Pi, a project where they can create their own computer code to be run on the International Space Station. Astro Pi is an educational project in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.

Keep up with the project and see what kids are sending by following the hashtags #AstroPi & #CodeInTheStars.

Thanks Kyla from Kids Code Jeunesse for guiding my class through "Mission Zero", where students used Python programming and Raspberry Pi to code a message and picture that will be received and seen by astronauts on the International Space Station! @VillanovaSchool @KidsCoding pic.twitter.com/g7cbsQmlVi
— Ms. Young (@robynyoung01) February 11, 2020

One of the messages Ss in 6-1 are sending to the #ISS through the #AstroPi Mission Zero project! 🚀💻
"Avo Good Day!"🥑 @Kyla_KCJ @VillanovaSchool @KidsCoding #Python #codeinthestars 🌠 pic.twitter.com/i3nWpLO4uX
— Megan Roome (@Mme_Roome) February 8, 2020

Thanks @PEILibrary for hosting the first successful Astro-Pi event at Cornwall Library! We got 5 teams to send their own unique code to the astronauts in the International Space Station 🚀👨‍🚀 see you tomorrow Summerside 🙂 @KidsCoding #kids2030 pic.twitter.com/AJbBPOOq8e
— Becca Grimmelt 🏳️‍🌈 🏴 🧡 (@KCJ_PEI) February 8, 2020

Planning out our messages and then coding them in #python to be sent to the International Space Station. 🚀🌖🌗🌘#astropi #codeinthestars @kidscoding @avspacemuseum pic.twitter.com/mPCRhAYjI7
— Amanda Myerson (@kcj_amanda) February 9, 2020

Another successful launch of some cool code into space ⁦@CosmodomeLaval⁩ ! #kids2030 #AstroPi pic.twitter.com/fzMPVBTQVZ
— Martin Phelan (@martin_kcj) February 9, 2020

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Kids across Canada are launching their code into space!

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