Exchange Circuit Playground Bluefruit for Circuit Playground Express

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Exchange Circuit Playground Bluefruit for Circuit Playground Express

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Hello,

Our cohort of middle school computer science teachers ordered 175 adafruit circuit playground bluefruit boards with your plastic protective covers to use with our students.
We use Unit 6 - Physical Computing from code.org Computer Science Discoveries curriculum with our 8th graders and had previously purchased lab sets of the circuit playground classics from your company to connect to these lessons. We wanted to update the boards to something that could be used with the plastic circuit playground covers because we had seen an uptick in issues with students breaking off the buzzer, battery and usb connects and felt like we needed some protection for our investment. The two boards that fit the covers were the EXPRESS and bluefruit, so we chose the newer bluefruit due to the bluetooth capability which we thought might be fun to extend some lessons with. We believed that these boards worked with the code.org curriculum that is the main learning hub for our curriculum, but to our dismay we found out that they do not.
All of the boards are still untouched and in packaging other than the 1 we tested. Could you please help us to exchange the bluefruit boards for the EXPRESS boards (to fit with covers and work with our code.org curriculum) so we can continue to provide a positive learning experience for our students? Thank you for your time and help with this!

Rick Cushman
Harding Middle School
Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Re: Exchange Circuit Playground Bluefruit for Circuit Playground Express

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I'll check with the supply.

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Re: Exchange Circuit Playground Bluefruit for Circuit Playground Express

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hi rick, checked with the team - seems like there is a [email protected] request that was sent in too, please work with the team that is emailing together with [email protected] to see what is possible.

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