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PROGRAMMES
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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University of the Highlands and Islands
The University of the Highlands and Islands Digital Lend-A-Lab programme gives educators an opportunity to engage learners with digital tech through a variety of micro:bit based activities. The Labs include all the equipment, activities, and training required.
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.
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.
T-Exchange, Moray Makerspace
T-Exchange, Moray Makerspace will host a series of Technology Day Events & Coding Experiences to give young people in Moray, the Highlands, and Orkney opportunities to code.
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
Moray College UHI
Moray College UHI and their industry partners will deliver three interconnected workshops four times each for young people S1 – S3.
Scottish Council for Development & Industry
Support from Digital Xtra Fund will enable SCDI to expand its innovative project to two more local authorities – Argyll & Bute and Moray.
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.
