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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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Langbank Primary School
Langbank Primary School is passionate about increasing opportunities for children to use and access digital technology.
St Anthony’s Primary School
St Anthony’s Primary School in Renfrewshire aims to increase access to high quality computing experiences across the school community.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
West College Scotland
Pupils in S1 and S2 in targeted schools in Renfrewshire will benefit from the opportunity to take part in extracurricular coding clubs in a project which aims to engage pupils in coding, increase their skills, build their interest in computing science and also influence subject choices for their studies in S3 and S4.
