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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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Thornliebank Primary School & Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Thornliebank
Thornliebank Primary School & Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Thornliebank will offer lunchtime clubs over three blocks for the school’s younger learners.
Queen’s Park FC Foundation
Queen’s Park FC Foundation works to be intersectional, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary to maximise the impact of its community activities.
King’s Park Primary School
‘Play and Create’ by King’s Park Primary School will focus on learning by doing allowing learners to immerse themselves in digital skills.
CamCare UK
CamCare UK will offer STEM enrichment opportunities in ten Local Authorities across Scotland to foster curiosity and confidence in young innovators aged 7 to 16
Blairdardie Primary School
Blairdardie Primary School in Glasgow will deliver three cohorts of a lunchtime ‘Coding Club’ for girls in P4-P7.
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.
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.
Lourdes Secondary School
Lourdes Secondary School in Glasgow will expand their current Sphero Lunch Time club with a new Sphero BOLT Power Pack allowing up to 70 young people from S2&3 to take part in the club across the year.
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.
Cadder Primary School & St Mary’s Primary School
Cadder Primary School and St Mary’s Primary School in Glasgow have collaborated to enable each school to run a lunch time coding club using the LEGO Education SPIKE Essential range and Sphero BOLT robots.
West College Scotland
West College Scotland will expand their engagement online by working with teachers from primary schools in East Renfrewshire and Glasgow
Shawlands Primary School
Shawlands Primary School will purchase Spheros to take their coding club to the next level.
Shawlands Academy
Students at Shawlands Academy in Glasgow will have an opportunity to take part in FIRST LEGO League in 2021/22
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
Riverside Primary School
Riverside Primary School is setting up an extracurricular STEM Club to help inspire young people to learn advanced digital technologies skills through high quality, exciting extracurricular activities.
King’s Park Primary School
Using UBTECH Astrobot Cosmos Kits, King’s Park Primary School in Glasgow will create a series of high quality, exciting extracurricular ‘Build and Code’ clubs for their pupils.
