 Hello everyone, my name is Tyler Messery and today I'm here to talk to you about using Raspberry Pi as a desktop computer. So I am in eighth grade and am a student at Lake Middle School in Woodbury, Minnesota. I was first introduced to engineering on my school's robotics team as well as my school's STEM class. They helped spark my interest in engineering as well as the fact that my dad's an engineer and I look up to him. When I first told my grandma that I was doing a project involving the Raspberry Pi, she thought it was an actual Raspberry Pi. But it's much more than a Pi. It's a single board computer that can do so many different things. Like for example, they're usually used as an embedded computer or a high-powered microcontroller. I am using a Raspberry Pi 3B Plus. The version of Linux I'm running is Raspbian version 9 Stretch. I'm using a 1080p monitor and I'm also using a wireless keyboard and mouse. So most kids my age at my school use a laptop to do their school work. So that's why I am comparing the Raspberry Pi to a laptop. So some negatives, unlike a laptop, you have to make your Raspberry Pi. So that means you have to get the Raspberry Pi case, SD card, monitor, HDMI cable, mouse and more. It may take longer to turn on and it might be a little slower than a laptop. Some positives, it's a lot less expensive than a laptop and there are a ton of other uses for Raspberry Pi other than being a desktop computer. Also with the Raspberry Pi, you get to choose the size of your monitor and keyboard versus on a laptop it's made small and portable. So the good news is almost everything worked. The websites I used worked as well as the school projects I completed on it. Most projects I made were on Google Apps but for one class I had to clip together a lot of short videos and edit them to make a newscast. I've always been learning parts of Python here and there so I decided to see if the Raspberry Pi could handle a job. I use a Python book that calls for Python 3 Idle which works out really well because the Raspberry Pi comes pre-installed with it. Raspberry Pi also comes pre-installed with 10 other programming sites like Scratch and BlueJava. There's almost an unlimited amount of games you can play on this, old or new. There's a couple different kinds of applications you can play your games on. For example, you can go on terminal and get some games off there or you can just play the games Raspberry Pi comes pre-installed with. The game sound is quiet from my monitor so I decided to hook up my Bluetooth speaker to it and it made the quality and the sound a lot louder. Google Apps didn't load on Firefox so I tried loading it on Google Chrome and it ended up working. Compared to a laptop computer, the Raspberry Pi takes up a lot more space because the Raspberry Pi is a mouse, keyboard and monitor versus on my old laptop, the keyboard, mouse and monitor are all made connected and together. This can be especially annoying for me since I already have to fit all my school supplies on it like my binder and notebooks on my desk. So Raspberry Pi, Linux and everything else went smoothly except for the fact it can take a while for web pages to load. The websites I tested worked except for Google Apps which would only load on Google Chrome. So I would say the Raspberry Pi and Linux can be used for kids' schoolwork and at home. Thank you. Thank you, Tyler.