Nearly 700,000 BBC micro:bit computers, worth millions of dollars, will be given away for free to every primary school across the United Kingdom in a bid to support the country’s ambitions to become a global tech superpower.
A new partnership called BBC micro:bit - the next gen comprising the BBC Education, Micro:bit Educational Foundation and the company in charge of the .UK domain name registry, Nominet. This builds on the original scheme which saw one million micro:bit given away to every year 7 student in the UK from October 2015 onwards.
