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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. Since 2016, the charity has supported a wide variety of initiatives and activities for young people across Scotland.
Learn more about every initiative and activity ever supported by Digital Xtra
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Kirkgunzeon Primary School
STEM Leaders at Kirkgunzeon Primary School will develop coding and digital skills, explore careers in digital tech, and develop leadership skills for both pupils and parents/carers.
Dunscore Primary School
Dunscore Primary School, will offer fun and meaningful afterschool activities with links to their rural location in partnership with the Royal Highland Education Trust.
North Rhins Partnership
Portpatrick, Leswalt, and Kirkcolm Primary Schools in Dumfries & Galloway have come together to create the North Rhins Partnership.
SSERC
SSERC will organise and coordinate an extracurricular competition based on the VEX GO platform.
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
Kirkcudbright Academy
Kirkcudbright Academy in Dumfries & Galloway will set up a new initiative using the F1 in Schools platform. Students will work as a team on the design, analysis, manufacture, and testing of a model F1 Car. Students will take part in real life CAD/CAM activities as they design and analyse the car on the computer, test aerodynamics through CFD analysis, and manufacture component parts.
The Institution of Engineering and Technology
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, in partnership with Energy Skills Partnership Scotland, will be expanding the delivery of FIRST LEGO League Jr in Dumfries & Galloway, East Ayrshire and the Scottish Borders
Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Raspberry Pi Foundation will create 76 new after school Coding Clubs. Currently around 4,500 children across Scotland aged 9-11 years old benefit from this project. These new clubs will help reach at least another 1,000 pupils by the end of April 2017.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry and BT
This innovative project involves training teachers, particularly those who may have lacked confidence to teach computing subjects, to deliver the Tweety Pi programme – a coding and outdoor learning experience which records activity around a bird table.
Edinburgh International Science Festival
Edinburgh International Science Festival will revisit ten Primary schools in Dumfries & Galloway and South Lanarkshire who took part in last year’s successful LEGO Mindstorms workshops as part of their primary schools outreach programme, Generation Science.
Ian Findlay Design and Troqueer Primary School
This after school club offers one hour coding sessions using Hour of Code to pupils wishing to develop their skills in this area.
