“Digitally based industries across the globe face an ongoing skills shortage in coding,” said Peter Wenzel, Global Head of Software and Single Board Computing for Premier Farnell, “This has led to an increase in the development of educational programmes that provide children with access to coding skills through hands-on learning, helping tackle these challenges for the future.
“At Premier Farnell, the combination of our exclusively manufactured boards such as the BBC micro:bit and Codebug, and successful manufacturing partnerships with other suppliers including Raspberry Pi and BeagleBoard, mean that we can offer one of the most comprehensive ranges of educational boards on the market.
“The range of boards and ancillary products available from Premier Farnell,” continued Wenzel, “is backed up by guidance and support through online resources available from the STEM Academy and the widely used element14 Community which has over 500,000 members and is the largest forum of its kind in the engineering, student and maker community.”