Expression of Interest by DXF Industry Partners

Expression of Interest by DXF Industry Partners (2022/23)

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Please complete the following form which will enable us to organise an engagement between yourself and the activity/session you would like to volunteer with. While we will do our upmost to ensure a successful result, completing this form does not guarantee the engagement. A staff member from Digital Xtra Fund will be in touch to confirm details about the engagement once the request has been approved by the event/activity organisers.

If you have any difficulties filling out the form or require further details about the engagements, please email Maha Abhishek.

PLEASE NOTE: We expect all volunteers to contribute to a safe and friendly volunteering environment. Please comply with all health and safety requirements and safeguarding guidelines provided by the event/activity organisers.

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Full Name*

Email*

Organisation Name*

Job title/Role*

Where did you hear about the opportunity?

Would you like to sign up for the Digital Xtra Fund newsletter?*

Through this newsletter, Digital Xtra Fund (DXF) send updates to Industry Partners and their staff about any upcoming engagement opportunities with DXF grant recipients and their cohorts.

Yes please!

No, thank you!

I have already signed up!

I/We give my/our consent for Digital Xtra Fund to collect my/our personal information (e.g., Name and Email) for the purpose of engaging with this particular activity/session. Disclaimer: The personal information requested in this form will be kept confidential and collected solely for the purposes of facilitating an engagement with the relevant grant recipient. We do not share any of the collected data with any other third parties.*

Yes, I give my consent.

Employee Engagement Opportunities

This section lists out opportunities with the various initiatives funded for Round VII (2022/2023) and engage with young people by sharing knowledge and skills within the Tech sector.

Please select the sessions you would like to volunteer or attend.*

Blairgowrie High School: Careers/SkillsTalk

IET-ESP FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Festival

IET-ESP FIRST® LEGO® League in-Class Event (Dundee)

James Hamilton Primary School: Careers/Skills Talk

Leadhills Primary: Careers/Skills Talk

North Berwick Library - Career Insight Talks

Pitlessie Primary: Career/Skills Talk

SmartSTEMs: Submit a short video

St. Joseph's RC Primary - Lunchtime Club

St. Joseph's RC Primary - Careers/Skills Talk

St. Palladius Primary - Afterschool Club (App Design)

St. Palladius Primary - Afterschool Club (Lego)

Stane Primary School - DYW event and school assembly

YESC - Career Case Study (Video)

YESC - Live Q&A

YESC - Online Celebration Event

Robert Gordon University: Career/Skills Talk

RGU's Ethics in Tech project addresses the difficult dilemmas and the ethical questions that can be raised when interacting online, teaching young people, via active participation and creativity, the ethics of online safety and security. Digital Xtra Fund is currently leading on the development of activities as part of this project and would like to invite guest speaker(s) to discuss experience and opportunities in the field of cyber security, digital animation or gaming industry, in particular reference to ethics.

Please indicate the topic you be interested in delivering at the sessions.*

Ethics behind online safety and security

Digital Animation (with emphasis on Ethics)

Games Industry (with emphasis on Ethics)

Other

Please indicate any other topic related to ethics you will be interested in.

Please indicate your availability.*

w/c 9th January 2023

w/c 16th January 2023

Both

Please indicate a suitable time/date in those week.*

PLEASE NOTE: We will try our best to accommodate your request with the timings, however, it would most probably be dictated by what fits best for the schools.

Any other comments

North Berwick Library: Career Insight Talks

East Lothian Council’s North Berwick Library want to invite guest speakers to their new Girls in Gaming Club for a monthly Career/Skills insight day. The volunteers can share experiences about creating and designing games, the skills required and how they use technology in games industry. It could be an informal chat or presentations (10 to 20 minutes long), allowing for plenty of time for questions and engagement.

Please indicate the date(s) you are available.*

PLEASE NOTE: The library is delivering their coding club from Nov-June and timings for the talk would be 3.45pm onwards at the Library.

Please provide details about what information/activities you would like to offer during your engagement (max. 500 characters).*

It could be an informal chat, quiz or presentations (anything from 10 to 20 minutes long)

Any other comments

St. Joseph's RC Primary School : Career/Skills Talk

St Joseph’s RC Primary School in Dundee are looking to connect with industry professional(s) who could share/discuss the career opportunities that are available in tech sector, coding, programming or robotics, especially to inspire young girls in STEM. The key aim is to help the cohort engage with some role models and provide young people ‘real-world’ context to the digital skills they are learning in their Club.

Please indicate the date(s) you are available.*

PLEASE NOTE: The school is flexible with the dates and are looking for an in-person session at the school in the month of March/April.

Please provide details about what information/activities you would like to offer during your engagement (max. 500 characters).*

It could be an informal chat, quiz or presentations (anything from 10 to 20 minutes long)

Any other comments

Stane Primary: DYW event and School Assembly

The school is delivering a Developing Young Workforce (DYW) event in May, wherein the industry professionals would have an opportunity to have class visits and/or attend the showcase event with an opportunity to engage young people with some hand-on activities. Alternatively, they are keen to get some staff at their weekly whole school assembly.

Please indicate the date(s) or event(s) you are available:

Thurs 11th May 9.15am - 10.15am (School assembly)

Tues 16th May 1:15pm – 3pm (Class visits)

Wed 17th May 1:00pm – 3pm (Showcase event)

Thurs 18th May 9.15am - 10.15am (School assembly)

Please provide an alternate date(s) you would be available.

Please provide details about what information/activities you would like to offer during your engagement (max. 500 characters).*

For Showcase event, it could be table-top activities. For Class visit and School assemblies, it could be an informal chat, quiz or presentations (approx. 10-15 min)

Any other comments

Leadhills Primary School: Career/Skills Talk

Leadhills Primary School are hosting an open afternoon during Careers Week at school, where pupils/parents will get to engage with people from a variety of industries. The pupils will create questions that they want to ask prior to the event for each person who attends.

Please indicate your area of expertise or topic of your interest:*

Please note: The school is interested at engaging with professional(s) with a wide range of skill set and experience, including coding, engineering or video games industry.

Please confirm if you are able to attend the session in-person on Thursday 9th March (1-3pm).*

Yes

Other

PLEASE NOTE: The session will be at Leadhills Primary School, Main Street, Leadhills, Biggar, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, ML12 6XR

Any other comments

James Hamilton Primary School: Career/Skills Talk

James Hamilton Primary School are looking volunteers from industry who could share/discuss the career opportunities that are available in tech sector, and how their computer science and coding skills can be transferred or developed further through careers in Tech industry.

Please indicate the topic you will be able to engage the young people with.*

Please provide details about what information/activities you would like to offer during your engagement (max. 500 characters).*

It could be an informal chat, quiz or presentations (anything from 10 to 20 minutes long)

Please indicate the date(s) you would be available:*

17th January

24th January

31st January

7th February

21st February

28th February

25th April

2nd May

9th May

16th May

23rd May

6th June

PLEASE NOTE: Afterschool club is delivery every Tuesday of the month (3-4pm) and the session will take place at James Hamilton Primary School, William McIlvanney Campus, Sutherland Drive, Kilmarnock, KA3 7DF. PVG check would be required.

Any other comments

Blairgowrie High School: Career/Skills Talk

Blairgowrie High School would like to invite guest speaker(s) who could share/discuss the career opportunities that are available using robotics, coding and software , especially for young girls (S1-S3). The pupils are learning to use the LEGO Education SPIKE Prime sets before taking part in various national (and international) robotics competitions.

Please indicate the topic you will be able to engage the young people with.*

Topics the school is interested in (but not limited to): Coding, Programming, Robotics and Computing skills in various digital tech jobs.

Please provide details about what information/activities you would like to offer during your engagement (max. 500 characters).

It could be an informal chat, quiz or presentations (anything from 10 to 20 minutes long)

Type of delivery

In-person

Online via Teams

PLEASE NOTE: In-person delivery will take place at Blairgowrie High School, Beeches Road, Blairgowrie PH10 6PW. To deliver an in-person event, PVG check would be required

When would you be able to deliver the session?

Tuesday 28th March

Thursday 30th March

You can deliver session from 30min to 1hr

Do you have a PVG Certificate?

Yes

Not sure

Please note: You would require a Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) certificate, a scheme run by Disclosure Scotland, in order to deliver an in-person session at School.

Any other comments

Pitlessie Primary: Career/Skills Talk

Pitlessie Primary School would like to invite guest speaker(s) who could share/discuss the career opportunities that are available using coding and computer science skills, especially for young girls. The pupils are using scratch to create a game and would also like to connect with someone from the gaming industry to discuss career opportunities with children and possibly help/ aid them with their game development.

Please indicate the topic you will be able to engage the young people with.*

Topics the school is interested in (but not limited to): Coding, Programming, Robotics and Computing skills in various digital tech jobs.

Please provide details about what information/activities you would like to offer during your engagement (max. 500 characters).

It could be an informal chat, quiz or presentations (anything from 10 to 20 minutes long)

Type of delivery*

In-person at School

Online thru Teams

Pre-recorded

PLEASE NOTE: In-person delivery will take place at Pitlessie Primary School, Ladybank Road, Pitlessie, KY15 7SP

Please indicate the date/month you would be able to deliver the session

DD slash MM slash YYYY

Timings (AM or PM)*

Please indicate the (rough) timings of your session

Duration of your session (hours)

Any other comments

SmartSTEMs: Submit a short video

Working in collaboration with SmartSTEMs, Digital Xtra Fund is looking for individuals from Digital Tech sector to create a short video (5-7 min long), describing either your job in STEM or journey to STEM. These videos will be hosted on SmartSTEMs YouTube Channel as separate playlist and free for any to access, especially teachers, educators or pupils.

Type of video you would like to submit:

Job in STEM

Journey to STEM:

Both

Please indicate that you are happy for your details (mainly name, job title and organisation name) to be shared with SmartSTEMs.*

Yes, I give consent!

Any other comments

St. Joseph's RC Primary - Lunchtime Club

St Joseph’s RC Primary School in Dundee are delivering their coding club to train a new LEGO Leaders Code Club (P6-P7) offering a variety of LEGO based activities. Subsequently, the LEGO Leaders will lead and teach coding to younger learners using Bee-Bots and Blue-Bots as an introduction to computational thinking. They are looking for volunteers to help teacher with the delivery of their lunchtime clubs for their P6-7 cohorts (Nov-Mar’23) and following session with younger cohort (Mar-June).

Please indicate the sessions you would be available for:*

The Coding club is delivered every Monday during lunchtime from 12.30-1.15pm (45min session) in the school. PLEASE NOTE: Nov-March sessions are for P6-P7 LEGO Leaders and March-May sessions for younger pupils from P1-P5 class.

14th Nov 2022-6th March 2023

13th March 2023-29th May 2023

Please indicate any particular date(s) your are available during those sessions.*

Any other comments

St. Palladius Primary - Afterschool Club (App Design)

St. Palladius Primary School, in North Ayrshire are looking for volunteers to help assist teachers with the delivery of their afterschool clubs for their P5-7 cohorts. The after school club will run every Monday afternoon from 3-4pm for a 6-week block starting in January'23. They are looking for volunteers to share their expertise in app design and the platforms to use.

Please indicate the dates you would be available:*

16th Jan 2023

23rd Jan 2023

30th Jan 2023

6th February 2023

13th February 2023

20th February 2023

Do you have a Protecting Vulnerable Group (PVG) or Enhanced Disclosure certificate?

PVG membership or Enhanced Disclosure scheme makes sure its members are allowed to work with children or protected adults. Please note: PVG Check would be beneficial but not essential for purposes of this volunteering.

Yes

Not sure

Any other comments

St. Palladius Primary - Afterschool Club (Lego)

St. Palladius Primary School, in North Ayrshire are looking for volunteers to help assist teachers with the delivery of their afterschool clubs for their P5-7 cohorts. The after school club will run every Monday afternoon from 3-4pm for a 6-week block starting in April. They are looking for volunteers to to help run sessions using LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime kits.

Please indicate the dates you would be available:

24th April 2023

1st May 2023

8th May 2023

15th May 2023

22nd May 2023

29th May 2023

Do you have a Protecting Vulnerable Group (PVG) or Enhanced Disclosure certificate?

Yes

Not sure

Any other comments

IET-ESP FIRST® LEGO® League in-Class event (Dundee)

ESP and the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) are looking for volunteers for their FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL) in-class event at schools in Dundee for their Explore and Challenge levels.

Please indicate from the following options the Festivals you wish to get involved with.*

Craigiebarns Primary School, DD4 7UH (27th January 2023) - FLL Challenge SUPERPOWERED

Tayview Primary School, Dundee DD2 4DA (mid Feb 2023, dates TBC)- FLL Explore Cargo Connect

Clepington Primary School, DD4 6TQ (end of March 2023, dates TBC) - FLL Explore Cargo Connect

Please indicate that you are happy for your details (mainly name, job title and organisation name) to be shared with ESP/IET*

Yes, I give consent!

Any other comments

IET-ESP FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Festival

ESP and the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) are looking for reviewers for their FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Festival. Explore is an exciting STEM programme for 6–9-year-olds to develop their teamwork, design, programming, and communication skills. The theme for this year is called and encourages teams to explore how energy is created, stored, distributed, and consumed.

Please indicate from the following options the Festivals you wish to get involved with.*

Dumfries & Galloway College - Dumfries (11th May 2023)

Dumfries & Galloway College - Stranraer (18th May 2023)

Please indicate that you are happy for your details (mainly name, job title and organisation name) to be shared with ESP/IET*

Yes, I give consent!

Any other comments

IET-ESP FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge Tournament

ESP and the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) are looking for volunteers to be judges, referees and volunteers for their FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge Tournament . These roles are suitable for anyone with an interest in encouraging young people into STEM. The theme for this year is called SUPERPOWERED and encourages teams to explore how energy is created, stored, distributed, and consumed.

Which role you wish to undertake this season?*

Judges - The role on the day will involve interviewing teams about their work around three areas: Innovation project, Robot Design and FLL Core Values. Robot Design Judges skills can range from HR (for Core values) to Coding (robot game/programming).
Robot Game Referee: Referees would spend some time learning the Robot Game rules leading up to the event (short video, information will be provided). On the day, the role involves observing team robot games, assessing field for scoring of matches and participating in deliberations regarding contested calls and official scores.
General Assistance: Help with the overall running of the event.

Judge

Referee

General Assistance

Please indicate from the following options the tournament you wish to judge or referee?*

Glasgow (Tuesday 20th December)

Ayrshire (Friday 20th January)

North Highland (Wednesday 25th January)

Islands Stornoway (January date tbc)

Dundee and Angus (Friday 3rd February)

Edinburgh (Wednesday 8th February)

Grampian - Fraserburgh (Thursday 16th February)

Aberdeen - Altens (Thursday 23rd February)

Fife (Monday 27th February)

Inverness - An Lochran (Saturday 4th March)

West Lothian (Friday 10th March)

Which training session would you be able to attend?*

ESP are running these volunteering training sessions mainly for the role of judges, referees. But feel free to join if you would like to know about the format. During the session, you will be provided with some training videos with all the information and proper run through of the tournament.

Wednesday 16th Nov (4-5.30pm)

Thursday 17th Nov (4-5.30pm)

Tuesday 22nd Nov (4-5.30pm)

Sorry! None of the above.

Would you be willing to support the Great Britain Final in Harrogate in April (dates tbc)?

Please note: Unless you are helping as a general assistant for the event, you must have supported one of the tournaments earlier, to be judge or referee at the Finals.

Yes please!

No, thank you!

Please indicate that you are happy for your details (mainly name, job title and organisation name) to be shared with ESP/IET*

Yes, I give consent!

Any other comments

YESC - Career Case Study (Videos)

YESC are collating a series of simple case study videos to share with participating schools to highlight the diverse range of people and careers within the tech sector for their project “Code VS Climate” project. They are particularly interested to hear from people showing a range of ‘routes’ into the sector to show young people that there is no wrong path into the sector and that there is ‘people like them’ that they can relate to.

Please write a short bio about yourself and your 'route' into the Tech sector.

Please insert the WeTransfer link with your video here:

Go to: https://wetransfer.com/ to, click on three dots (...) and choose "Get transfer link" option. Upload your files and once its uploaded click "Get a link" button. Copy the link and paste it in the text box below

Any other comments

YESC - Live Q&A session and Celebration Event

YESC are looking for industry partners to share an insight into their world of work. This could be as a question and answer session with the schools as they work on their designs or as part of our virtual online Celebration, where pupils will showcase their entries.

Please indicate the session(s) you would like to volunteer for*

Q&A session (Nov'22-June'23)

Online Celebration Events (Mar'-June'23)

Both

Please indicate the dates and rough timings you will be able to deliver the Q&A session

Please note: YESC is planning to deliver these sessions between November and January, so please indicate dates during those months.

Please indicate the dates by when you will be able to record and send the pre-recorded session for the Online Celebration Event.

Please note: If you need help with recording or some guidance, please indicate this in "Any other comments" section below.

Any other comments

Edinburgh Science - Careers Hive Event

Edinburgh Science are looking for young and early-career STEM professionals to represent their industry, share their STEM story and inspire the next generation.Volunteers will receive “Communicating with Confidence” training to support engagement with the public.

Where do you live?*

Is your company currently a supporter of Careers Hive or Edinburgh Science?*

Yes

Unsure

Which industry do you work in?*

Conservation and Environment

Construction

Energy

Engineering

Fin-Tech and Finance

Health

IT and Digital

Life Sciences

Other

How many years have you been working in your current STEM field?*

0-5 years

6-10 years

11-15 years

16+ years

We would like to hear your story, please tell us a little about your career path to date.*

What do you like most about your job?*

Have you previously volunteered for Careers Hive?*

Yes

Did you attend Communicating with Confidence training?*

Yes

Have you previously worked or volunteered with young people?

Yes

Please use this box to describe your experience.*

How confident do you feel in talking about your job with young people?*

Very confident

Confident

Not sure

Not confident

Would you be interested to volunteer as part of the Flying Squad?*

Volunteers will be based in the Grand Gallery exhibition space, however we are putting together a Flying Squad of volunteers who can act as an additional adult for school groups. This role would involve meeting a group at their school and then accompanying them throughout their day and would give you the chance to see the workshop and talks.

Yes

Not sure

Please choose the themed Zone(s) you would like to be involved with. Select all that apply*

When in the Grand Gallery there are 4 themed Zones with hands-on activities related to a range of STEM careers. Volunteers will be assigned to a Zone so please indicate which Zone(s) you feel best reflect your job and expertise.
Please note: There is no guarantee that you will be placed in your Zone of choice. Zone allocations will be made on a combination of availability, expertise and need.

Heal & Feed - health care, medical life sciences and agriculture

Build & Connect - engineering (from transport to the internet)

Energy & Environment - power generation and energy supply (including the enviromental impacts)

Design & Play - Technology (creation and development)

No Zone preference

Which days are you able to volunteer for?*

Volunteers can commit to a minimum of one full day of volunteering at Careers Hive between Monday 7 and Saturday 12 November. This can be completed either as one full day, or can be split across the week as two half-days. Please note that this is just the minimum but if you are able to do more, then we would love to have you over!
PLEASE NOTE: A full day is 9am-4.15pm, a morning session is 9am-1.15pm and an afternoon is 12.30pm-4.15pm

Monday 7 November (full day)

Monday 7 November (AM)

Monday 7 November (PM)

Tuesday 8 November (full day)

Tuesday 8 November (AM)

Tuesday 8 November (PM)

Wednesday 9 November (full day)

Wednesday 9 November (AM)

Wednesday 9 November (PM)

Thursday 10 November (full day)

Thursday 10 November (AM)

Thursday 10 November (PM)

Friday 11 November (full day)

Friday 11 November (AM)

Friday 11 November (PM)

Saturday 12 November (full day)

Saturday 12 November (AM)

Saturday 12 November (PM)

In total, please indicate how many days can you volunteer?

For example, please mention 1 day, 1.5 days, 2 days, 2.5 days........5 days, 5.5 days or 6 days.

Which training session(s) would you be able to attend?*

We highly recommend all first-time Careers Hive volunteers to complete our Communicating with Confidence training session, and encourage all volunteers to do this if possible. Training sessions will take place at Edinburgh Science’s office in Leith and will cover important information about the event.

Monday 24th Oct, 2-5pm

Tuesday 25th Oct, 6-9pm

Wednesday 26th Oct, 6-9pm

Sorry I can't attend any of the above dates

All volunteers receive a Careers Hive t-shirts to wear during the event. Which size t-shirt would you need?

Small

Medium

Large

Extra Large

Are you happy for Edinburgh Science to contact you to discuss how we might partner with your organisation, including any future volunteering opportunities?

Yes

Any other comments

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