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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
West College Scotland will build on the foundations laid in 2016 by once again supporting coding clubs for pupils in Renfrewshire as well as additional CPD sessions.
The Prince’s Trust
Support from Digital Xtra Fund will enable the Trust to deliver a series of digital industry days for young people in their Achieve programme, a personal development programme for young people who are at risk of disengaging from formal education.
Stirling High School
The project will see the development of a Digital Learning Hub as a foundation for a sustainable ecosystem of peer learning and collaboration between the High School and their feeder primary schools.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
Support from Digital Xtra Fund will enable SCDI to expand its innovative project to two more local authorities – Argyll & Bute and Moray.
New College Lanarkshire
New College Lanarkshire will expand their VEX Robotics programme and enable 8 additional teams from secondary schools across Lanarkshire to take part in the VEX Robotics Competition.
McLaren High School
Fifty pupils from McLaren High School will each develop a cross-curricular digital technologies project to help inspire other pupils at the High School.
Inverness Science Festival
Inverness Science Festival will be engaging over 900 young people in Scotland’s more rural communities including primary and secondary schools and holiday clubs across the north, to host its special coding events.
Inveralmond Community High School
Inveralmond Community High School is one of the new fast-paced projects to hit the track. Funding will enable Inveralmond to become Scotland’s first F1 in Schools Centre for Excellence.
Forfar Academy
Angus Young Engineers’ CAD/CAM Café will facilitate peer-to-peer learning at Forfar Academy and primary schools in the catchment.
Edinburgh International Science Festival
Edinburgh International Science Festival will revisit ten Primary schools in Dumfries & Galloway and South Lanarkshire who took part in last year’s successful LEGO Mindstorms workshops as part of their primary schools outreach programme, Generation Science.
Apps for Good
Apps for Good will deliver courses in Aberdeenshire, Highlands, Orkney, and Perth & Kinross teaching young people to build, market, and launch digital products, from apps to IoT devices.
