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STATWARS CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE

On September 23rd 2019, Greta Thunberg addressed the UN at the Climate Change Action Summit. Her statement was a rousing one: “My message is that we’ll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come […]

Lights, Camera…Data!

National schools ‘STATWARS’ competition to be launched at DataFest 2019 Calling all budding Spielbergs, Attenboroughs, Boyles or Netflix fans! A national competition to design a film or tv series based on real-life viewer data will be launched March 14th at DATAFEST 2019 – the UK’s first ever two-week festival of data innovation in Scotland. The […]

STATWARS – CALLING FOR PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT

STATWARS® has been designed to encourage children and young adults in primary and secondary schools to engage with data and develop data analysis skills. This is currently being piloted in several primary and secondary schools in Scotland with funding from Skills Development Scotland Digital Fund and The Data Lab and it is supported by the […]