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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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Saline Primary School
Saline Primary School will deliver afterschool programming activities using the Sphero BOLT starting with draw coding before moving on to block coding and then JavaScript.
STEM Ambassadors in Scotland
STEM Ambassadors in Scotland will fund and support eight Secondary Schools from across Fife as they participate in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge.
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.
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.
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.
Edinburgh Science Foundation
Edinburgh Science Foundation will deliver activities featuring Marty the Robot across their Primary, Secondary, and Festival channels. Over 4,000 young people across multiple Local Authorities will have a chance to programme Marty to walk, dance, and even navigate an obstacle course.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
SCDI's Young Engineers & Science Clubs will provide young people in Glasgow an opportunity to investigate energy usage in their school or home and then use the micro:bit to create a solution to reduce their consumption
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.
SSERC
SSERC will support delivery of VEX 123 Coding Clubs across nine primary schools in Fife for P1 to P4 learners.
Dunfermline High School
Dunfermline High School, located in the heart of Fife, will run Virtual Reality Games Design Workshops providing learners with an immersive, hands-on VR games design experience using CoSpaces Edu and Meta Quest 3s headsets, thus bridging the gap between abstract coding concepts and real-world application.
