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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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Edinburgh Science
Edinburgh Science will be developing a new activity designed to make programming fun and engaging for young people attending Careers Hive
Eastmuir Primary School
Eastmuir Primary School in Glasgow will develop a Digital Coding Club during lunchtimes targeting separate age/ability groups.
Cromar Future Group
Cromar Future Group is a community lead charity giving young people in rural Aberdeenshire the opportunity to develop their digital skills. The club focuses on coding but also incorporates other digital skills such as robotics, electronics, graphic design, filming and stop motion. This multifaceted approach helps engage a wider variety of young people and ensures participants are learning important skills whilst also having fun.
Civic Digits CIC
The Big Data Show by Civic Digits CIC will engage around 1,000 11-13 year olds while exploring cyber security and associated data skills.
Bun Sgoil Bhreascleit
Bun Sgoil Bhreascleit in the Western Isles will run after school and lunch time clubs teaching coding and robotics using Spheros, Code-a-pillars, LEGO WeDo and LEGO Mindstorm.
Bowmore Primary School
Bowmore Primary School will be providing high quality and exciting tech experiences for the lower school and nursery audiences of the school.
Balmalloch Primary School
Balmalloch Primary School, a rural school in North Lanarkshire, will be creating an after school club looking at new technology and ways the world is changing because of this technology.
Western Isles Libraries
The Stornoway Library MakerSpace will be developed as a STEAM centre for the area, delivering a series of digital learning activities.
West College Scotland
West College Scotland will build on their previous experience of successfully establishing coding clubs in six Renfrewshire secondary schools and bring an adapted model to Inverclyde.
University of the Highlands and Islands
University of the Highlands and Islands aims to inspire and engage young people using coding and encourage an interest in digital careers.
Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust
Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust is based on the island of North Uist and works closely with the primary and secondary schools from North and South Uist. Through this work they have identified a need for digital skills workshops and extracurricular classes.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
Little Lighthouse is a first level interdisciplinary project for P2-P4 pupils which uses the context of lighthouses to introduce little engineers to various STEM concepts including electricity, light, sounds and coding.
Port Ellen Primary School
Port Ellen Primary School on Islay will develop an afterschool robotics club where overcoming challenges and developing children’s’ resilience is a key aim.
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.
New College Lanarkshire
Building on their previous grant award, New College Lanarkshire will continue to grow the VEX Robotics EDR extracurricular programme in Lanarkshire to inspire young people aged 11-16 in coding and robotics.
Moorfoot Primary
Moorfoot Primary, in partnership with Inverclyde Council, will be creating a Mobile Coding Initiative with one simple message: Anyone can code!
