25/05/2025
IMPORTANT UPDATE - YOU HAVE MORE TIME TO BUILD!!
📢📰📢 Important update on our ongoing Minecraft competition: due to many requests we have decided to extend the deadline by 2 weeks! The new closing date is now June 15th... keep building!!
Also note that we have published a list of upcoming webinars for educators who want to learn more about Minecraft Education, as well as open online sessions for any participants who have questions or problems about the competition. Please check here under News and Updates:
https://headstart.technology/index.php/2025/03/31/innovate-malta-building-the-digital-island-of-the-future/
12/04/2025
Hey all students! Its been a while, but we have been super busy gearing up for new and exciting things. Don't miss out on the new Minecraft competition we just launched: Time to ⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️ !!!
https://tinyurl.com/minecraftcompetition2025
12/04/2025
Innovate Malta: Building the Digital Island of the Future – Headstart
Innovate Malta: Building the Digital Island of the Future Post Author:klausconwp Post published:March 31, 2025 Post Category:Uncategorized Read this first: RULES AND REGULATIONS! Competition criteria Tutorials and Howto Videos News and Updates Submission Form Read this first: RULES AND REGULATIONS!....
31/03/2024
Important notice for all our students - please read for information about Summer 2024 courses.
Courses Summer 2024 – Easy Peasy Coding
Notice for all Summer 2024 courses This year we have made the difficult decision to take a break from long form summer courses. We have had an extremely busy year in other areas of the business, and because of that we have not been able to dedicate as much time as we normally do (and feel is require...
08/03/2024
🌍✨ Digital Literacy teams up with Microsoft for a groundbreaking event! ✨🌍
🏆 Join us for an exhilarating Minecraft Education competition. Open to both state and non-state schools, this challenge is part of the innovative "Schools Reinventing Cities" initiative. 🏙️
🎓 Students, will have the chance to reimagine and redesign their surrounding urban spaces!🌳🏠
🖼️ Witness creativity at its best with projects showcased during the Public Service Expo. Be there to see the future through the eyes of our talented young minds, and cheer for the winners as they receive their well-deserved prizes over the weekend! 🏅
👩🏫 Educators, seize this unique opportunity! Register for the competition and sign up for free online training sessions to empower your students in making a difference. Click here to start your journey: https://forms.office.com/e/YWS4TtBxu3
The link also available in the informative circulars sent to all state and non-state schools, which also include the rubric
Let's build a better tomorrow, one block at a time. 🌈
28/01/2024
Free on the EPIC games store for a few more days: https://www.zachtronics.com/infinifactory/
Great little game to engage students in resource allocation/factory simulation type scenarios with a heatlhy dose of critical thinking and puzzle solving.
Zachtronics | Infinifactory
Despite extensive sleuthing by our players, the alien writing in Infinifactory is not a real language. Although it may have no meaning, that doesn’t mean it’s meaningless; on the contrary, we spent a fair amount of time designing a writing system that would look believable, alien, and fit visual...
12/10/2023
Delighted to have received the first raspberry pi 5 in Malta! Thank you Raspberry Pi foundation... We will put it to good use at the next raspberry jam! (dates and venue soon!)
05/09/2023
Today in our senior STEM group we finished our retro gaming pc box! Pictures later. The even bigger news is that we discovered that there is, in fact, the perfect pizza. Pineapple, nuts, cherries, grapes and pulled pork. That's it. Game over.
17/07/2023
Some fun with robots this morning