Edinburgh International Science Festival

Each year the Edinburgh International Science Festival delivers one of Europe’s largest science festivals, a primary school education programme across Scotland and a variety of international programming activities and projects.

One activity is the delivery of Lego Mindstorm workshops and digital skills for P4-S3 pupils across Scotland. At these events pupils code robots to follow commands and navigate a course, learning programming and then problem-solving to make the robot complete a series of challenges. One fun aspect of the activity is the rescue mission to retrieve a lost robot on Mars using sensors and coding robots to detect objects, distance and light.

The Festival has also extended its existing travelling Careers Hive to include hands-on digital skills activities for 3000 S1-S3 pupils from 35 schools in North Ayrshire, Inverclyde, Midlothian, Stirling, West Lothian, Borders, Edinburgh, East Lothian, Fife and Falkirk.