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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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Kingspark School
Kingspark School’s Code and Glow Club will be an immersive sensory storytelling code club designed for learners with additional support needs.
James Gillespie’s High School
Pupils at James Gillespie’s High School in Edinburgh will design, build, and program a robot, using block coding or python, to compete against other schools in a global competition designed by VEX Robotics based on the VEX V5 robotics platform. Meanwhile, staff will work with their feeder primary schools to organise and deliver a friendly competition using the VEX IQ platform.
Harris Academy
The Raspberry Pi Code Club at Harris Academy in Dundee will be a weekly STEM club for S1 to S3 learners using Raspberry Pi computers.
Glencryan School
The Glencryan school will initially run two clubs for learners in S1 to S3. A third club will be a transition project with learners from upper primary.
Falla Hill Primary School
Pupils in P5, P6 and P7 will have an opportunity to take part in a new Creative Coders Club
Ellon Academy
Ellon Academy in Aberdeenshire will develop a Sphero BOLT+ coding club for S1 and S2 pupils. Participants will complete a series of lessons in the Sphero Edu App to develop their coding, creativity, programming, and collaboration skills. Once confident using the robots, learners will undertake the ‘Sphero Global Challenge – Season 6’ to further develop their skills.
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.
Dundee & Angus College
Dundee & Angus College will host the 2025/26 FIRST LEGO League Challenge regional tournament for Dundee and Angus.
Bannerman High School
Bannerman High School in Glasgow will offer a LEGO-based coding club for S2 pupils twice a week. Learners will use LEGO Education SPIKE Prime kits and lessons from the SPIKE App such as ‘Rain or Shine?’ and ‘Brain Game’ to further develop their Scratch block-based coding skills.
Annick Primary School
Annick Primary School in North Ayrshire will engage older learners using Sphero BOLT+ coding robots while younger learners will learn screenless coding using Sphero indi cars.
Aboyne Primary School
Aboyne Primary School in Aberdeenshire will deliver an engaging extracurricular programme covering coding, robotics, games design, and 3D printing.
