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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
Funding will allow West College Scotland to deliver a 3-day Gaming and Programming Holiday Camp. Girls from P5 to S2 will learn about creating music, games, and stories through various coding-based activities as well as hear from industry guest speakers.
University of the Highlands and Islands
The University of the Highlands and Islands Digital Lend-A-Lab programme gives educators an opportunity to engage learners with digital tech through a variety of micro:bit based activities. The Labs include all the equipment, activities, and training required.
Tulliallan Primary School
Tulliallan Primary School in Fife will create a Code Together Club for their learners and their parents/carers. Participants will learn computing skills using micro:bits and accessories as well as Sphero BOLT and indi robots.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Funding will allow The Institution of Engineering and Technology (The IET) to increase delivery of the Explore division of FIRST LEGO League in Aberdeenshire and Renfrewshire. Children will explore a real-world issues before building and programming a solution using LEGO Education’s SPIKE Essential kit.
Stromness Academy
Using the Otto DIY robot system, pupils at Stromness Academy in Orkney will build, program, and test their own Otto robots. The inclusion of two new 3D printers will allow participants to also personalise their robots using Tinkercad.
Stane Primary School
Stane Primary School in North Lanarkshire will deliver a new Robotics After School Club to teach programming skills to pupils across multiple years. Using Marty the Robot, participants will tackle a series of challenges.
St Palladius Primary School
The Tech Titans After School Club at St Palladius Primary School in North Ayrshire will learn to code using Scratch resources. Participants will also take part in Make It Happen to learn about app design and development before using LEGO Education’s SPIKE Prime kit. The children will also visit Glasgow Science Centre.
St Joseph’s RC Primary School
St Joseph’s RC Primary School in Dundee will build on previous success in Minecraft and Astro Pi competitions with a new LEGO Leaders Code Club offering a variety of LEGO based activities. Younger children will also use Bee-Bots and Blue-Bots as an introduction to computational thinking
St Brendan’s Primary School and Nursery
St Brendan’s Primary School and Nursery will offer a coding club for primary and early learners. Children will learn to develop creative coding solutions using Swift Playgrounds, Sphero BOLT and indi robots and InO-Bots. A selection of sessions will also be offered as family learning opportunities.
St Agatha’s Primary School
Learners at St Agatha’s Primary School in Fife will learn computational thinking and programming using Bee-Bots, Code and Go Robot Mouse, Sphero indi robots, and Botley 2.0 as well as the LEGO Education SPIKE Essential range.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
SCDI’s Young Engineers & Science Clubs’ Code versus Climate programme will give educators the kit and training needed to help young people investigate energy usage in their school or home. Participants will then use micro:bits to create solutions to reduce their consumption.
Rochsolloch Primary School
Rochsolloch Primary School will purchase their own set of micro:bits and accessories as well as Sphero BOLT robots and iPads allowing children from all stages of the school to take part in the new Digital Leaders Club with an emphasis on older pupils supporting younger pupils..
Quarry Brae Primary School
Quarry Brae Primary School in Glasgow will offer a new Lunchtime Coding Club led by upper school pupils who have demonstrated an interest in digital tech. Participants will initially learn block-based coding before completing various lessons and challenges using Marty the Robot.
Pitlessie Primary School
Children from Pitlessie Primary School, a small rural school in Fife, will learn to use Blockly, Scratch Jr, and micro:bits before applying these skills to robotics and inventors’ kits. Offline learning will also be available using Barefoot Computing and Cubetto.
Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School
Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School in Glasgow will create a new all-girls coding cub. Pupils will learn Scratch before getting hands on with Sphero BOLT robots, Marty the Robot, and micro:bits. Different careers in tech and female role models will also be highlighted each week alongside the activities.
Ochiltree Primary School
Through a unique partnership between Ochiltree Primary School in East Ayrshire and the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere, participants will use technology to support the biosphere and help their local community.
