STEM Directory
The STEM Directory is a database of providers offering STEM enhancement and enrichment to schools and colleges locally and nationally. Teachers can easily search for shows, workshops, debates, challenges, visiting speakers and more.
Find exciting opportunities for in-class support, memorable days out, and engaging projects to motivate your students.
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FIRST LEGO League
FIRST® LEGO® League is a global STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) challenge for teams of young people, to encourage an interest in real world themes and develop key skills that are crucial for their future careers. Young people work together to explore a given topic and to design, build and...
0 RSPB Bempton Cliffs - Schools on Reserves
RSPB Bempton Cliffs is one of the UK's top wildlife sites and one of Europe's most accessible seabird colonies. We offer outstanding, engaging learning experiences for school children (and their accompanying adults!) from Early Years to KS3.Become ornithologists for the day and explore the adaptations and food...0 Weirdology
Wierdology is the weirdest, wildest multidisciplinary science show on earth…and it's controlled by you, the audience.Weirdologist and TV Gastronaut Stefan Gates presents an explosive, fast-moving, and often thoroughly disgusting stage show packed with engineering, science and technology stunts…and...0 The Utterly Revolting Science Show
A funny, cheeky, thoroughly revolting journey through the human body. BBC presenter Stefan Gates makes edible bogies from seaweed snot, cooks food in vomit, cooks with saliva and explores farts, poo, wee and some truly terrible smells. As with all Gastronaut shows, there'll be rockets and explosions, laughter and...0 Supertasters
Supertasters tears apart food, nutrition and multisensory perception using explosions, laughter, screaming and some very weird flavours including the world's fartiest foods and edible insects.Using specially-developed demos, strange props, mass audience participation, music and videos, Supertasters explores...0 Bang! The Science of Explosions
This new Gastronaut show is a physics spectacular exploring pressure, combustion, sound and explosive chemical reactions. BBC Gastronaut Stefan Gates brings rockets, mini-motorbikes, catapults, flamethrowing, live insects (yup, you read that correctly), big explosions, a massive whoopee cushion and ridiculously big...0 Working in Technology: Design and Build a Wind Farm in Virtual Reality - Still 1 space left!
We still have 1 space left which we would love to fill before the end of the school year! Other schools in the eligible funding areas we haven't worked with yet and would love to: - Dallam School- Chadwick High School- Central Lancaster High School- Lancaster Girls Grammar School- Cardinal Allen...0 Eat My Science!
Stefan Gates, BBC TV presenter and live show presenter, presents an amazing edible science show based on his book Science You Can Eat (Dorling Kindersley) and CBBC series Incredible Edibles. The show features rockets made from food, edible chemical reactions, vortex cannons, flamethrowing, live insects and farting...0 Hands-on Science Workshops
Lab Rascals is an award winning interactive science entertainment company in Yorkshire and the Humber. Lab Rascals educate, inspire and entertain children with the magnificent world of science and engineering.Due to Lab Rascals extensive research at the University of Hull into children’s perceptions of science...0 Planetarium Shows - Space
About our planetarium system.Lab Rascals Digistar lite system uses a customized version of Digistar 6, the world’s leading digital planetarium system. The biggest and most important planetariums in the world use Digistar. Lab Rascals portable state of the art planetarium system is the only one of its kind within...0 Pages
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The Royal Institution runs two enrichment and enhancement grant schemes. Grants of up to £500 are available to UK-registered state schools to host a STEM activity selected from the STEM Directories.
There are a number of other organisations that offer grants to schools.
About STEM Directory
The STEM Directory contains searchable activities that enhance STEM teaching in schools and colleges. Teachers can search for shows, workshops, debates, challenges, visiting speakers and more.
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Providers: add an activity
If you provide shows, talks, workshops, challenges, museum visits, teacher CPD or other enrichment and enhancement activities that help promote STEM to schools and colleges, then you may be eligible to feature in the STEM Directory.
Please use the link below to register and submit an activity.