Thomas’ visit
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Fantastic for the interns and apprentices of DISC Digital Independent Specialist College to meet Thomas Shaw co-founder and CTO of https://auxcode.com last month at @digivantage. We love AuxCode OOD’s honesty, truthfulness and inclusive workplace ethos. Thomas is an inspirational individual. We love that he travels sustainably throughout Europe by bike and train helping young individuals
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Dylan Apprenticeship Story
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Dylan originally joined the Digital Advantage as part of Digital Inc. internship in 2021. The course was transformational for him, building his digital skills, along with confidence and timekeeping. An asset to any company, Digital Advantage was keen to keep hold of Dylan and were delighted that the Co-op stepped forward to partially fund his
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Pupils with SEND learn skills for digital careers
Thursday, 16 September 2021
We have a case study featured in this months issue of Children & Young People Now. It looks at our Digital Inc. Agency that offered digital supported internships to young people with SEND. It charts the progress of Beck, one of our interns, who we first met at one of our Pop-Up Digital Agency deliveries,
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Mechfix – PopUp Winners, Bradford, 2019
Friday, 02 August 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.- Published in Careers
Foodaway – PopUp Winners, Lancashire 2019
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
The 18/19 academic year saw us work with West Craven High School for the first time. . . . and what a debut it was! In the face of competition from schools and colleges the length and breadth of the county of the famous Red Rose, the youngest group to enter - a mix of Y9 & Y10 students - emerged victorious and stormed to the first place and £2000.00 package of development support!
Showing a real sense of community, the team eschewed the chance to create a for-profit business app and focussed instead on an environmental and social concern - food waste. Guided by DA industry trainer Paul Holloway - who commented that they were “the most committed group he has led”, the team set about their project with gusto, coming up with a solid app idea aimed at connecting organisations within local communities to collectively decrease food waste.
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Digital Advantage Winners
Monday, 16 January 2017
Emojo win Digital Advantage 2016 Against all the odds the £5000 Digital Advantage 2015-16 enterprise competition has been won by Chorlton High School with their app to create and share your own customised Emojis – called Emojo. The innovative digital skills programme Digital Advantage, designed and developed by The White Room, and funded by Manchester