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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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Moray Council (Moray Libraries)
Moray Libraries will pilot a new Digital Creators Club for children from P5-P7. Participants will learn to design and build robots using the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime range and DJI Tello Ryze Mini Drones.
Maidenhill Primary School
Maidenhill Primary School in East Renfrewshire will prioritise engaging girls and young women to inspire them to consider a career in STEM. Participants will have a chance to use resources to work together and solve a series of computational, robotics, and structural tasks and challenges.
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.
Logie Primary School
Logie Primary School, a small rural school in Moray, will use a range of equipment to create a progressive plan to develop digital skills across all early learning and primary years as well as family learning. Older pupils will also help lead the club with younger years.
Leadhills Primary School
Pupils from Leadhills Primary School in South Lanarkshire will learn the fundamentals of engineering and coding using the VEX GO construction system. Participants will then use the official VEX GO Competition Field Kit to build and play four themed games.
Kirkliston Primary School
Kirkliston Primary School in Edinburgh will build on their previous grant and develop a Robotics After School Club for 30 P7 girls allowing participants to expand their skillset and knowledge into more practical applications of coding
James Hamilton Primary School
James Hamilton Primary School in East Ayrshire will deliver a 6-week coding club for its pupils during each school term. Participants will learn through a series of activities using Sphero BOLT robots and activities from Barefoot Computing.
Hillside Primary School
Hillside Primary School in Aberdeenshire will develop a lunch time coding club for P6&7 pupils. Children will learn about robotics and games development using micro:bits as well as online resources to learn Scratch.
Heart of Midlothian Football Club
Heart of Midlothian Football Club’s Innovation Centre will create an Inventors for Good Club. Three cohorts of young people, including one all-girls, will get hands-on with micro:bits to prototype inventions that will benefit the community.
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.
Eastertoun Primary School
Eastertoun Primary School in West Lothian will create coding and robotics activities for their pupils, as well as other primary schools in their cluster, using LEGO Education’s SPIKE Prime range and Sphero BOLT and indi robots.
East Lothian Council (North Berwick Library)
North Berwick Library in East Lothian will be creating a new Girls in Gaming Club, in a safe and informal environment, to engage and teach young women about skills and careers in the gaming sector.
Dean Park Primary School
Dean Park Primary School in Edinburgh will offer a new coding club using the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime range as well as online activities about Scratch, HTML, Python, and Java.
Corstorphine Primary School
Corstorphine Primary School in Edinburgh will deliver a two-stage programme. Initially, pupils from P6&7 will become learn to use micro:bits and accessories, Sphero BOLT robots, and online activities before teaching these skills to their fellow learners.
Cathkin Primary School
Cathkin Primary School in South Lanarkshire will be offering after school coding clubs for their P1&2 and P5&6 pupils using Marty the Robot, Bee-Bots and Coding Critters.
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.
