{"id":416,"date":"2025-05-01T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/?p=416"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:26:28","slug":"incredible-inventors-celebrating-digital-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/2025\/05\/01\/incredible-inventors-celebrating-digital-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Inventors: Celebrating Digital Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"848\" height=\"244\" data-id=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01114023\/Digital-Drop-in-45.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01114023\/Digital-Drop-in-45.png 848w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01114023\/Digital-Drop-in-45-300x86.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01114023\/Digital-Drop-in-45-768x221.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are thrilled to announce that two talented students from Kirkhill Primary School have been recognised as Runners-Up in the recent #DigitalInventorsCompetition! Their innovative project earned them an invitation to the award ceremony in Glasgow this week, where they celebrated their achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>The Competition<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Pupils were challenged to research common health and care challenges and come up with ideas that could be transformed into a digital health and care solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" data-id=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01122626\/Kirkhill-PS-Digital-Inventors-Picture-2-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01122626\/Kirkhill-PS-Digital-Inventors-Picture-2-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01122626\/Kirkhill-PS-Digital-Inventors-Picture-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01122626\/Kirkhill-PS-Digital-Inventors-Picture-2-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01122626\/Kirkhill-PS-Digital-Inventors-Picture-2.jpg 1171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They designed a heated blanket to soothe the symptoms of Arthritis, and includes space for a medicated gel pad for topical treatment, and a digital chip to connect to an app for wireless control. It is designed to be made using recycled materials, and specifically targets the area of pain, using heat to improve symptoms and reduce the environmental impact of heating the whole house. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"366\" data-id=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01115832\/Screenshot_1-5-2025_115544_glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com_-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01115832\/Screenshot_1-5-2025_115544_glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com_-1.jpeg 642w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/digitallearningteam\/uploads\/sites\/7490\/2025\/05\/01115832\/Screenshot_1-5-2025_115544_glowscotland-my.sharepoint.com_-1-300x171.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirkhill Primary School submitted designs from pupils across P6, and also had a second group receive a Special Recognition award for their invention too. This is an incredible achievement to all. Well done to everyone who entered, you are all superstars!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that two talented students from Kirkhill Primary School have been recognised as Runners-Up in the recent #DigitalInventorsCompetition! Their innovative project earned them an invitation to the award ceremony in Glasgow this week, where they celebrated their achievements. The Competition Pupils were challenged to research common health and care challenges and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/2025\/05\/01\/incredible-inventors-celebrating-digital-innovation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Incredible Inventors: Celebrating Digital Innovation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,61],"tags":[69,70,67,13,68,66],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-technologies","category-information","category-sharing-learning","tag-digiinventors","tag-celebrating-success","tag-digital-invention","tag-digital-learning","tag-digital-pupils","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/digitallearningteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}