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Digital Xtra is a registered charity whose goal is for every young person in Scotland to have access to innovative, meaningful, and creative extracurricular computing and AI activities regardless of their gender, background, or where they live.
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Midlothian Council and Volunteer Midlothian
The project involves the use of Libraries for the delivering of Code Club activities, using senior secondary school pupils and adult volunteers, working with Midlothian Library employees as the trainers/hosts.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry and BT
This innovative project involves training teachers, particularly those who may have lacked confidence to teach computing subjects, to deliver the Tweety Pi programme – a coding and outdoor learning experience which records activity around a bird table.
University of the Highlands and Islands
This project involves training of primary teachers and school helpers on LEGO Mindstorms by lecturers from University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Inverness College helping them to teach computing science skills across the Highlands & Islands region.
The Prince’s Trust and Artronix
The “Achieve Digital” project supports 180 young people aged 13-16 to gain vital digital skills whilst encouraging them to consider a career in the IT industry.
Scottish Libraries & Information Council (SLIC)
Training public library employees to deliver Code Clubs to young people aged between 9 & 11 years across 28 of the 32 Local Authority Library Services
Rampaging Chariots Guild and Selex ES Ltd.
Rampaging Chariots is a robotic project aimed at firing up the interest in young people in technology and engineering.
Apps for Good
Apps for Good engages young people aged 10 to 16 years in the design, build, market and launch of mobile, web and social apps to solve problems that young people care about in their communities.
Edinburgh College and Oracle
A innovative project based on popular TV drama series such as CSI and NCSI. Edinburgh College and Oracle have developed a CSI Forensic Investigation course which involves computing, coding and digital media for secondary pupils aged 12 – 16.
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.
Forfar Academy
Forfar Academy has extended its project to work with a cluster of 8 Primary Schools to deliver after school digital skills clubs involved initially in First Lego League
Ian Findlay Design and Troqueer Primary School
This after school club offers one hour coding sessions using Hour of Code to pupils wishing to develop their skills in this area.
Queens Cross Housing Association and Glasgow Kelvin College
A partnership between Queens Cross Housing Association and Glasgow Kelvin College has led to the development of a wide range of workshops, activities and coding experiences for young people aged 9 – 16 years from disadvantaged areas in North Glasgow.
