Academy builds digital skills through storytelling experience

STUDENTS had access to digital technology during Sky Ireland’s ‘Sky Up Academy’ showcase at St Kevin’s Community College in Clondalkin.

The Sky Up Academy has been visiting secondary schools throughout Dublin over a six-week period, reaching over 1,200 DEIS students.

To finish the tour, they held a showcase event at St Kevin’s Community School, on Friday, March 31.

The event was attended by the Mayor Emma Murphy and hosted by Sky News Correspondent Stephen Murphy.

The Sky Up Academy helps to build digital skills through an immersive storytelling experience. Sky’s touring e-vehicle creative studio is aimed at tackling digital inequality, and helps students develop digital skills as well as knowledge of different careers across the media and TV industry.

A fully kitted out e-vehicle in St Kevin’s provided students with access to a creative studio to create their own content.

Working collaboratively, students had the opportunity to develop their digital skills by creating a media campaign.

Through the experience they learn to shape stories for various media platforms, use a pop-up photography studio, and a hi-tech digital media suite inside the e-vehicle.

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