Those are the basic stats of this year’s Digital Day, our biggest ever by some margin. But what the stats don’t show is the difference our digital professionals made: the fires they lit and the ambitions they forged.
Digital Day generated 5,334,479 impressions on Twitter. Don’t worry, we’re not about to show you them all, but here’s just a flavour of the tweets and images from schools and students:
Digital Day at Eastwood in full flow. Lower school pupils faced challenges such as finding a way to save the oceans. Well done to all involved for their ideas and ingenuity #BIMADigitalDay @EastwoodHighERC pic.twitter.com/OkQepq8zSQ
— Eastwood BECS (@EastwoodBECS) November 12, 2019
Our first #BIMADIGITALDAY was a huge success. Thanks to John and Colin from @InnovDigital for leading the session and a massive well done to our S3 pupils for taking part and coming up with fab solutions to the challenges. Same again next year? #DigitalLearning @MissDunnsTweets https://t.co/TD4Q0JEcgg
— Rosshall Digital Literacy (@Rosshall_DL) November 12, 2019
So proud of the @TBHAcademy Year 9 students who took part in #BIMADigitalDay Their ideas and presentations astounded me. Some very difficult briefs to fulfil and the teams were incredibly inventive. Thanks again to @talktotommy for their support. @bima pic.twitter.com/ZIN0dHBME6
— TBHAcareers (@TBHAcareers) November 12, 2019
Fantastic to see the Digital Jersey Academy packed with students, mentors and the @dlpcourse social media takeover team! #BIMADigitalDay https://t.co/rfAwAarmtF
— DanielRowles (@DanielRowles) November 12, 2019
We had an amazing day talking digital at @BiggarHigh for #BIMADigitalDay! SO impressed with the creative ideas that came out of this workshop—well done guys! Big thanks to @BIMA and sponsors @microbit_edu, @TheWorldsLesson, @Wimbledon, and @EPAMSystems_UK! pic.twitter.com/Ur4iJQM2lg
— MadeBrave® (@MadeBrave) November 12, 2019
Our wonderful Loomies Claire and Thom had a fantastic day at @gordanosch for #BIMADigitalDay! It was great to see the students get excited about digital marketing and come up with some brilliant solutions to the challenges! #BIMA pic.twitter.com/HARTZ94bQQ
— Loom Digital (@loomdigital) November 12, 2019
Metro mayor, Steve Rotherham, spoke about to plans for Liverpool’s digital future, and the sustainable energy plans to power it. #BIMADigitalDay has been held at Abbot’s Lea School for several years, and last year it produced a winning team! ⭐️ https://t.co/4bEdgSWcNl pic.twitter.com/ex2prI7qSx
— The Drum (@TheDrum) November 12, 2019
Digital Day is a BIG undertaking. It simply can’t happen without our Digital Day sponsors, who this year were Wimbledon, global software consultancy EPAM and the Microbit Educational Foundation.
It can’t happen without lots of eager and willing schools and students.
And it can’t happen without the digital professionals who give up their time and make a bigger difference than they might ever realise.
So to all of you, from everyone at BIMA, a massive thank you.
Next year, we’ll be doing it all again, and once again we’re expecting it to be bigger than ever. That means we’ll need more digital professionals than ever too.
If you loved the experience this year, please, could we ask that you sign up to take part again next year? We promise that, once you have, we won’t bother you about Digital Day until much nearer the time.
And thanks again.