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Using robots to teach basic programming with North-East school students.

Image of school girls planning routes for robots at STEM skills teaching sessions

This post explores how HMRC is using robots to encourage school girls in the North East of England to think about coding and to develop their STEM or related skills.

Inspiring students to work in government digital, data and technology roles

...19 Year 9 students from a Sutton school came into the Government Digital Service (GDS) to attend a Careers Insight Day. The event allowed us to showcase the wide range...

From the Welsh Government to the Department for Education: My experience on the Fast Stream

Helen Morris, second year Digital, Data and Technology fast streamer talks about her experience on the programme. Apply until 25 October!

National Inclusion Week: being a Civil Service Summer Diversity Intern

...Cardiff University. I was pleasantly surprised by GDS’s diverse workforce and the scope of skills needed in enabling government digital transformation. I worked on a 6-week project with a team...

GDS STEM ambassadors bring coding to life with fireflies and micro:bits

Maisie Fernandes, Venus Bailey, Irene Lau , GDS

...algorithm in a real-time scenario encourage discussion about how distributed algorithms can help solve challenges such power conservation and efficiently distribute data within networks During our session, we first looked...

Government Legal Department: Finding my way to the Digital, Data and Technology Profession from Law

Esther Kuforiji, Government Legal Department

Esther Kuforiji, Government Legal Department What is your role at GLD? I’m the product manager for GLD Digital at the Government Legal Department. I develop products and services that enable...