OUR 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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Scottish Council for Development & Industry
This exciting interdisciplinary project designed for P1 – P4 pupils uses the context of lighthouses to introduce them to various STEM concepts, including electricity, light, sounds and computing science.
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.
Glasgow Science Centre & CoderDojo Scotland
Children across Scotland will benefit from the maintenance and development of new coding clubs, with Digital Xtra funding bringing new clubs to areas currently lacking this resource.
Forth Valley College
Forth Valley College will use the Digital Xtra funding to engage with around 50 school children in the Falkirk area across P7, S1 and S2, introducing them to digital skills and showing them the varied opportunities available in the tech sector through a series of interactive extracurricular #GetCoding courses.
Fife College
Addressing the gender imbalance in the IT sector, Fife College will deliver an after-school club for P7 girls in the East Neuk of Fife, building confidence and introducing a new creative outlet while teaching them what the digital sector has to offer.
Dundee & Angus College in partnership with the Dundee Science Centre
Aiming to reach around 600 pupils in Dundee, the project will deliver an informal learning programme to young people located in areas unequipped with the facilities and resources required to foster engagement with digital skills.
ComputerXplorers
ComputerXplorers will introduce S1 pupils in East Lothian to coding through exciting and engaging workshops.
College Development Network
Around 200 primary and secondary school pupils across Scotland will benefit from the College Development Network’s web application project, Can You Code It?
Argyll & Bute Council
Argyll & Bute Council will establish an extra-curricular digital learning Hub based in Dunoon that will benefit hundreds of local young people. The Hub will provide a dedicated technology space and access for pupils to cutting edge digital technology.
Midlothian Council and Volunteer Midlothian
The project involves the use of Libraries for the delivering of Code Club activities, using senior secondary school pupils and adult volunteers, working with Midlothian Library employees as the trainers/hosts.
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.
University of the Highlands and Islands
This project involves training of primary teachers and school helpers on LEGO Mindstorms by lecturers from University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) Inverness College helping them to teach computing science skills across the Highlands & Islands region.
The Prince’s Trust and Artronix
The “Achieve Digital” project supports 180 young people aged 13-16 to gain vital digital skills whilst encouraging them to consider a career in the IT industry.
Scottish Libraries & Information Council (SLIC)
Training public library employees to deliver Code Clubs to young people aged between 9 & 11 years across 28 of the 32 Local Authority Library Services
Rampaging Chariots Guild and Selex ES Ltd.
Rampaging Chariots is a robotic project aimed at firing up the interest in young people in technology and engineering.
Apps for Good
Apps for Good engages young people aged 10 to 16 years in the design, build, market and launch of mobile, web and social apps to solve problems that young people care about in their communities.
