Originally reported and written in August 2022, this story has been republished as part of our archival content.

“How many of you have used a computer?” 

The answer to this question from class 7 students surprised Shoaib Dar, a fellow of Teach For India at the time. The engineer-turned-educator couldn’t believe that only one of them had used this electronic device.

To equip his students for the digital world, Shoaib conducted a 10-day boot camp with four Raspberry-Pi computers, which cost Rs 4,000-5,000. Students created their own games and animations as well as came up with programmed solutions for everyday problems. 

This incident prompted Shoaib to begin the Pi Jam Foundation in 2017, an NGO aiming to........

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