ITV Studios encourage diversity through script writing competition for Manchester schools

September 26, 2018 / ihtezaz anwar / Discover

Nine young people from schools in Manchester have won a school’s script writing competition organised by SharpFutures, a social enterprise which helps young people into careers in the creative and digital sector. The competition was run in association with ITV Studios. The students, aged 12 and 13 from the Eden Leadership Academies in Cheetham Hill,

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Computing, Curriculum and Careers Event

September 27, 2016 / ihtezaz anwar / Uncategorized

On Friday 11th November at 12pm until 4pm, The Sharp Project is hosting an innovative and inspiring Computing, Curriculum and Careers event for secondary school leaders, computer science teachers and career education agencies to inspire, inform and create new approaches to tackling the computing curriculum and encouraging more creative digital careers. The Sharp Project, based in Read More

St Cuthbert’s Creative Digital Experience Day

July 25, 2016 / Discover / Discover

St Cuthbert's attended their Creative Digital experience day on 15th July and they brought in two groups through the day totaling in 40 pupils. They got to tour around The Sharp Project and have a Creative Digital careers overview to learn about some of the careers available in this industry that they may have not Read More

Great Places Creative Digital Experience Days

July 18, 2016 / Discover / Discover

In May and June of 2016, SharpFutures welcomed 88 young people from secondary schools and colleges in Manchester funded and chosen by Great Places for four different Creative Digital Experience Days. The young people got to visit The Sharp Project for a tour and creative digital careers overview plus a variety of bespoke workshops ran by professional Read More

Manchester Coderdojo 12th June

June 14, 2016 / Discover / CoderDojo , Discover

Manchester CoderDojo is a free volunteer-led community group ran one Sunday every month at The Sharp Project for young people who are passionate about coding or want to learn more. They can learn how to code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and explore technology in an informal and creative environment. In addition to learning to code attendees Read More

St Margaret’s Creative Digital Experience Day

June 14, 2016 / Discover / Discover

Welcome to our Digital Leaders from St Margaret's! St Margaret's Digital Leaders attended their Creative Digital Experience day at The Sharp Project on Tuesday 7th June with SharpFutures Discover. They got an insight as to some of the careers available to them in the industry in the future, and also got to have a go Read More