Last week, our colleagues from the IoT in Schools  and Data Education in Schools teams delivered online sessions of Santa's Secret Sensor to primary 4 - 7 classes from the southeast of Scotland.

We partnered with Scotland’s Development Education Centre (Scotdec) to hold an online interactive session to help teachers explore issues around refugees and migration, empowering learners with data literacy skills.

In the context of the Micro:bits on the Move programme, helping Informatics students at the University of Edinburgh deliver Micro:bit workshops for learners across across Scotland, we partnered with the Digital Learning team in East Lothian to further support teachers to use the hardware in the classroom.

We were happy to participate for the second year in a row in the Edinburgh Futures Institute Doors Open Day, which took place on the 27th September 2025.

On Friday 19th September 2025, we held an event in collaboration with Children’s Parliament  and the Scottish AI Alliance.

On the 2nd September 2025, our team members Kate Farrell and Jasmeen Kanwal were speakers at the Royal Statistical Society International Conference in Edinburgh, a well-attended event for professionals, researchers, students and all interested in learning about the impactful application of statistics and data science.

The Heriot Watt outreach team have been using resources from the Data Education in Schools programme as part of their STEM Ambassadors programme for undergraduates with really positive results. 

When: Friday 19th September 2025, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM GMT+1 (in person), 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM GMT+1 (online)

Data Education in Schools offers a Data Literacy course to teachers with the immediate effect of providing new understanding, approaches and resources to those individual teacher participants. This resulted in additional impacts, as the course was able to inspire teachers to make changes within their schools – with the Data Education in School’s support in doing so.