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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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McLaren High School
The Stirling school is now planning to coordinate and assist in the creation of extracurricular robotics clubs in its 11 associated primary schools
Knightsridge Primary School
Knightsridge Primary School in West Lothian will develop a series of new after-school clubs to teach the basics of coding and computational thinking to children of primary school age using the curriculum and robots developed by Root Robotics.
Glasgow Life
Wear-a:bits will introduce coding through wearable technology to groups within Glasgow Life’s network of Youth Clubs based in areas of high deprivation.
Firpark Secondary School
Firpark Secondary School will be developing a SheBot After School Club for S1-S4 girls using the new VEX Robotics EDR V5 platform and VEX Coding Studio.
Edinburgh Science
App Inventor is an interactive activity which teaches secondary school pupils to build fully functional apps promoting creativity, computational thinking and basic programming skills using blocks-based coding.
dressCode
The philosophy of dressCode is showing girls how to do, not what to do, and empowering them to design the game or website that they want
Crookston Castle Primary School
Crookston Castle Primary School in Glasgow will develop a new after-school ‘Digi-Club’ to teach children about computing (particularly coding) using resources such as micro:bits, Spheros and iPads.
Carlibar Primary School
The primary school will develop a Digital Learning Hub for learners to develop a range of creative digital skills including coding.
Banchory Primary School
Banchory Primary School will be delivering Robot Dance Off, a 7-week challenge to code a Dash robot to dance in a choreographed way.
Apps for Good
Apps for Good is a tech education charity with a mission to prepare young people for the real-world and help grow the problem-solvers and digital makers of tomorrow.
Anderston Primary School
“Tech Heroes” is a programme of activities focused on the application of technology and computational thinking across subjects at Anderston Primary School in Glasgow.
Alva Primary School and Bridge of Allan Primary School
Alva Primary School and Bridge of Allan Primary School will partner to give pupils opportunities to develop digital skills for their future. Alva Primary School will focus on engaging girls while Bridge of Allan will focus on pupils who are not currently engaged in STEM.
Aberdeen Science Centre
Visitors to Aberdeen Science Centre will be introduced to digital concepts through fun, interactive activities and by designing and creating their own LEGO robotic devices to compete in exciting challenges.
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.
The Prince’s Trust
Support from Digital Xtra Fund will enable the Trust to deliver a series of digital industry days for young people in their Achieve programme, a personal development programme for young people who are at risk of disengaging from formal education.
Stirling High School
The project will see the development of a Digital Learning Hub as a foundation for a sustainable ecosystem of peer learning and collaboration between the High School and their feeder primary schools.
