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. 

We are honoured to have been Highly Commended at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) Digital Research Prizes ceremony in the category "Best Impact from a Data-Led project".

We are happy to be able to offer some funded places for teachers to attend the UK and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER) conference, a forum for researchers and practitioners to meet and share advances in computer science education.

We are delighted to be launching TRAILS – Teaching Responsible AI Literacy in Schools, our dedicated website to showcase our work bringing AI literacy into the Scottish schools.

We were happy to welcome STV News to one of the sessions of our February run of the Unbelievably Creative show at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. The session featured in a news story on how Scottish school pupils are learning about the potential and risks of AI.