‘Pop-up’ digital agency gives 100s of Lancashire teens a taste for business

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Classroom life – Walken High School

We have worked with Josh Mangas at Walkden High school for a number of years, taking Digital Advantage both into School and Salford College, where his students gained valuable work experience developing their own digital projects. In this article Joshua Mangas explains how working with industry is helping to change the fortune of disadvantaged young
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GoDigital

Q. What do Cream, Them Crooked Vultures & Lucy Pearl all have in common? A. They are all supergroups. After joining forces with Hive Learning Network and InnovateHer, we’re now in one of our own – GoDigital!  Funded by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), GoDigital has embarked on an ambitious programme to inspire 12
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Mechfix – PopUp Winners, Bradford, 2019

What a standard this team from Laisterdyke Leadership Academy in Bradford set for all to follow.  After waiting for the whole academic year to claim their prize, they did it with a great cheer of delight - just what we look for from our winners! 

Led by DA industry trainer Steve Rawling, the team were consummate professionals from start to finish.  Focus never wavered and when faced with differing opinions they were dealt with maturely throughout. The result? MechFix - an app to help you solve all of your car’s problems making use of Blockchain technology to let you securely check a service history and keep a record of work you carry out as well as find recommended local mechanics.

Aside from a viable concept and integration of blockchain technology, of particular interest to the judging panel was the business plan with carefully considered costings and exploration of partnerships with big players in the market such as Kwik Fit which showed a mature and open response to the development of their business.
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BUILDING ON THE STRENGTH WITHIN

In August 2017 we worked with Sefton Borough Council to deliver our PopUp programme with a group of teenagers who were at risk of offending or non-school attendance. Children & Young People Now magazine featured the project in this months issue.
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