Tom Crick won the Chromium Zone in June 2011, and won £500 to spend on a science communication project. Let’s take a look at where the prize money has gone.

Being a computer scientist, Tom spent his prize money on the following equipment for teaching an introduction to programming and electronics:

1 x Parrot AR.Drone programmable quadrotor/drone – this is a flying quadcopter (a helicopter with 4 rotors) which you can programme

3 x Raspberry Pi and peripherals – a Raspberry Pi is a very small single-board computer which can be used by beginners all over the world to learn programming.

2 x Arduino starter kits – to help learn how to use Arduino, a circuit board with software that beginners can use to build electronics projects.

Tom says “I’ve taken this kit into tens of schools, as well as using it for when schools visit my university — it’s been very useful!”