“We can figure it out”: How one Minnesota teacher uses Experience CS to set the tone for her whole year

Raspberry Pi Foundation · Sep 23, 2026

Walk into Allison Knoph’s fifth grade classroom in Edina, Minnesota in October and the creative writing station will be the loudest place in the room.

That is by design. “I use it at my creative writing station,” she says of Experience CS, which she has run each fall for the past couple of years. Kids use the station computers to be creative as they work on their programming projects, building characters and testing jokes they have written. Some laugh hard enough that a visitor might wonder if anyone is working.

“Giggling,” Allison says, “is a good problem…