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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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West College Scotland
Pupils in S1 and S2 in targeted schools in Renfrewshire will benefit from the opportunity to take part in extracurricular coding clubs in a project which aims to engage pupils in coding, increase their skills, build their interest in computing science and also influence subject choices for their studies in S3 and S4.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
This exciting interdisciplinary project designed for P1 – P4 pupils uses the context of lighthouses to introduce them to various STEM concepts, including electricity, light, sounds and computing science.
Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will create 76 new after school Coding Clubs. Currently around 4,500 children across Scotland aged 9-11 years old benefit from this project. These new clubs will help reach at least another 1,000 pupils by the end of April 2017.
Glasgow Science Centre & CoderDojo Scotland
Children across Scotland will benefit from the maintenance and development of new coding clubs, with Digital Xtra funding bringing new clubs to areas currently lacking this resource.
Forth Valley College
Forth Valley College will use the Digital Xtra funding to engage with around 50 school children in the Falkirk area across P7, S1 and S2, introducing them to digital skills and showing them the varied opportunities available in the tech sector through a series of interactive extracurricular #GetCoding courses.
Fife College
Addressing the gender imbalance in the IT sector, Fife College will deliver an after-school club for P7 girls in the East Neuk of Fife, building confidence and introducing a new creative outlet while teaching them what the digital sector has to offer.
Dundee & Angus College in partnership with the Dundee Science Centre
Aiming to reach around 600 pupils in Dundee, the project will deliver an informal learning programme to young people located in areas unequipped with the facilities and resources required to foster engagement with digital skills.
ComputerXplorers
ComputerXplorers will introduce S1 pupils in East Lothian to coding through exciting and engaging workshops.
College Development Network
Around 200 primary and secondary school pupils across Scotland will benefit from the College Development Network’s web application project, Can You Code It?
Argyll & Bute Council
Argyll & Bute Council will establish an extra-curricular digital learning Hub based in Dunoon that will benefit hundreds of local young people. The Hub will provide a dedicated technology space and access for pupils to cutting edge digital technology.
