Inspire

We aim to promote data careers to secondary school pupils with hands-on experiences, and help create the next generation of data scientists.

Our Inspire pillar is currently our most progressed pillar, and we've been hosting various schools across Liverpool. Working with the charity IntoUniversity, schools are invited to attend a programming and coding workshop on the University of Liverpool campus. 

In these workshops, students learn the about history of programming, particularly highlighting female programmers, and programmers from diverse backgrounds.

The students can then use micro:bits and Lego robots to learn to code, and we challenge them to make their very own Lego robot program.

Overall, we've already engaged with over 300 students in the Liverpool area!

Our publicly available outreach resources

We've made all our outreach materials publicly available on Zenodo and GitHub.

Our Zenodo and GitHub pages include our KS3 and KS4 resources, covering both block-based programming and python programming.

Some feedback we've received from students

• "Everyone was very friendly and helpful. I really enjoyed every bit of today"
• "I didn’t know or like coding very well but now I do"
• "I think this was a great opportunity for us to understand and learn more on how to code"
• "I like programming and the new things we learn from it"
• "I hope we do this again next year"
• "Really fun and interactive"