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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Aberdeen Science Centre
Visitors to Aberdeen Science Centre will be introduced to digital concepts through fun, interactive activities and by designing and creating their own LEGO robotic devices to compete in exciting challenges.
West College Scotland
West College Scotland will build on the foundations laid in 2016 by once again supporting coding clubs for pupils in Renfrewshire as well as additional CPD sessions.
The Prince’s Trust
Support from Digital Xtra Fund will enable the Trust to deliver a series of digital industry days for young people in their Achieve programme, a personal development programme for young people who are at risk of disengaging from formal education.
Stirling High School
The project will see the development of a Digital Learning Hub as a foundation for a sustainable ecosystem of peer learning and collaboration between the High School and their feeder primary schools.
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.
New College Lanarkshire
New College Lanarkshire will expand their VEX Robotics programme and enable 8 additional teams from secondary schools across Lanarkshire to take part in the VEX Robotics Competition.
McLaren High School
Fifty pupils from McLaren High School will each develop a cross-curricular digital technologies project to help inspire other pupils at the High School.
Inverness Science Festival
Inverness Science Festival will be engaging over 900 young people in Scotland’s more rural communities including primary and secondary schools and holiday clubs across the north, to host its special coding events.
Inveralmond Community High School
Inveralmond Community High School is one of the new fast-paced projects to hit the track. Funding will enable Inveralmond to become Scotland’s first F1 in Schools Centre for Excellence.
Forfar Academy
Angus Young Engineers’ CAD/CAM Café will facilitate peer-to-peer learning at Forfar Academy and primary schools in the catchment.
West College Scotland
Pupils in S1 and S2 in targeted schools in Renfrewshire will benefit from the opportunity to take part in extracurricular coding clubs in a project which aims to engage pupils in coding, increase their skills, build their interest in computing science and also influence subject choices for their studies in S3 and S4.
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.
