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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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Western Isles Libraries
The Stornoway Library MakerSpace will be developed as a STEAM centre for the area, delivering a series of digital learning activities.
West College Scotland
West College Scotland will build on their previous experience of successfully establishing coding clubs in six Renfrewshire secondary schools and bring an adapted model to Inverclyde.
University of the Highlands and Islands
University of the Highlands and Islands aims to inspire and engage young people using coding and encourage an interest in digital careers.
Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust
Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust is based on the island of North Uist and works closely with the primary and secondary schools from North and South Uist. Through this work they have identified a need for digital skills workshops and extracurricular classes.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
Little Lighthouse is a first level interdisciplinary project for P2-P4 pupils which uses the context of lighthouses to introduce little engineers to various STEM concepts including electricity, light, sounds and coding.
Port Ellen Primary School
Port Ellen Primary School on Islay will develop an afterschool robotics club where overcoming challenges and developing children’s’ resilience is a key aim.
Paisley YMCA
As a digital youth work organisation, Paisley YMCA have found that young people least likely to participate in STEM and computer science activities are also often those facing multiple forms of chronic and acute disadvantage.
New College Lanarkshire
Building on their previous grant award, New College Lanarkshire will continue to grow the VEX Robotics EDR extracurricular programme in Lanarkshire to inspire young people aged 11-16 in coding and robotics.
Moorfoot Primary
Moorfoot Primary, in partnership with Inverclyde Council, will be creating a Mobile Coding Initiative with one simple message: Anyone can code!
McLaren High School
The Stirling school is now planning to coordinate and assist in the creation of extracurricular robotics clubs in its 11 associated primary schools
Knightsridge Primary School
Knightsridge Primary School in West Lothian will develop a series of new after-school clubs to teach the basics of coding and computational thinking to children of primary school age using the curriculum and robots developed by Root Robotics.
Glasgow Life
Wear-a:bits will introduce coding through wearable technology to groups within Glasgow Life’s network of Youth Clubs based in areas of high deprivation.
Firpark Secondary School
Firpark Secondary School will be developing a SheBot After School Club for S1-S4 girls using the new VEX Robotics EDR V5 platform and VEX Coding Studio.
Edinburgh Science
App Inventor is an interactive activity which teaches secondary school pupils to build fully functional apps promoting creativity, computational thinking and basic programming skills using blocks-based coding.
dressCode
The philosophy of dressCode is showing girls how to do, not what to do, and empowering them to design the game or website that they want
Crookston Castle Primary School
Crookston Castle Primary School in Glasgow will develop a new after-school ‘Digi-Club’ to teach children about computing (particularly coding) using resources such as micro:bits, Spheros and iPads.
