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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.
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St Thomas Aquinas RC Secondary School
St Thomas Aquinas RC Secondary School in Glasgow will create an all-girls code club to help increase uptake of computing science amongst female students.
St Modan’s High School
St Modan’s High School in Stirling will run a VEX Robotics Club for S1 to S6 learners to compete in the more advanced VEX V5 Robotics Competition.
St Joseph’s RC Primary School
St Joseph’s R.C. Primary School in Dundee will run a Code Club for Gaming and Esports for P5 to P7 learners
St Anthony’s Primary School
The Digital Wizards at St Anthony’s Primary School in North Ayrshire will run lunchtime and afterschool code clubs for P5 to P7 learners.
SSERC
SSERC will support delivery of VEX 123 Coding Clubs across nine primary schools in Fife for P1 to P4 learners.
Skene School
Skene School is a small, semi-rural school in Aberdeenshire who will run Project: Robotic HEARTS for P1 to P7 learners. P6/7 Young Leaders will support the delivery of a series of lunchtime code clubs for their peers and younger learners. Participants will use Minecraft, VEX IQ, and Sphero BOLT+ and indi coding robots.
Scottish Borders Council
Scottish Borders Council will run the Galashiels Cluster Go-Vex Coding and Robotics Project to a cluster of primary schools within the Galashiels area.
Riverside Primary School
Riverside Primary School in West Lothian will run a VEX GO STEM Club for P5 to P7 students. Participants will learn about coding, algorithmic thinking, loops and functions, and problem-solving as well as working with motors and sensors. They will then use these skills working in small groups to undertake the VEX GO competition before creating their own ‘in-house’ competition.
Preston Tower Primary School
The Digi-Ninjas Coding and Robotics Club for P1 to P7 learners will give young people an opportunity to learn to code using the Sphero BOLT+.
Ochil Youths Community Improvement
Ochil Youths Community Improvement in Clackmannanshire will run the Codesign Project weekly for young people from P5 to S3. The club’s members will learn how to design and code a multi-level platform video game with support from Abertay University.
Mintlaw Academy
The Robotics Club at Mintlaw Academy in Aberdeenshire will be a coding club for learners from S1 to S6. Participants will have the opportunity to create and customise a Kitronik :MOVE mini MK2 buggy, controlled by a BBC micro:bit V2, using 3D printing helping develop their skills in both coding and CAD/CAM.
McLaren High School
McLaren High School will continue delivering the successful McLaren High Primary Robotics initiative for P5-P7 learners in primary schools across Stirling. The initiative features a series of coding and robotics challenges designed by McLaren’s staff and students based on local geography and industry.
Maxwellton Primary School
Maxwellton Primary School in South Lanarkshire will run the Digi-Buds Lunchtime Coding Club for learners in P5-P7 with additional support needs.
Linlithgow Primary School
Linlithgow Primary School in West Lothian will deliver the Digital Leaders: Robotics and Coding club for P5 to P7 learners
Kingspark School
Kingspark School’s Code and Glow Club will be an immersive sensory storytelling code club designed for learners with additional support needs.
James Gillespie’s High School
Pupils at James Gillespie’s High School in Edinburgh will design, build, and program a robot, using block coding or python, to compete against other schools in a global competition designed by VEX Robotics based on the VEX V5 robotics platform. Meanwhile, staff will work with their feeder primary schools to organise and deliver a friendly competition using the VEX IQ platform.
