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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Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Students can build, from instructions, a range of different designs, or get creative and design and build their own robots. Once built, we will then guide the students through programming their creations; which can be made to move and modify their behaviour using distance,tilt or colour sensors. Programming can be...Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding Workshop (UK2-KS4)
Our Intermediate robotics workshops challenge students to design, build and code Lego robots to meet a range of age- and experience-appropriate challenges.Our Intermediate robotics sessions will include use of our bespoke challenge mats, with students using motors, sensors and different mechanisms to solve problems....Primary Science Workshop Days
Are you looking for a science day that will enable your children to learn a whole unit of work in a very practical and enjoyable fashion across a whole day without any disruption your school, and at a cost that will not be bettered? If so, well these days are for you.As a former county science adviser, primary teacher...Maths Around the World - Teaching Resource
Phileas Fogg has pledged to travel around the world in just eighty days – but he needs your pupils’ help! It’s all going to take a lot of maths, you see – from calculating the amount of luggage he can take with him to keeping within his budget to interpreting boat and train timetables –...STEM Summer School
Our STEM Summer School days are a fantastic way of generating a real excitement around the school, while actively signaling to students, teachers and parents alike the importance your school attaches to skills development, confidence building and creative thinking. You can choose to build a day for current...Crime Scene Experience & Adventures
Steve's Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Experience and Adventure Workshops offer fun, practical, educational and engaging STEM Workshops which enhance educational experiences. Steve works with a team of experienced Forensic Science practitioners who have many years operational experience both nationally and...FunMaths Roadshow (South East)
The FunMaths Roadshow is a collection of 350 mathematical activities suitable for use with school pupils, college students, and university undergraduates. The first 100 were developed to celebrate the centenary of the Liverpool Mathematical Society in 1999, and the further 250 have been developed subsequently. The...Water rocket workshop
A great indoor/outdoor activity in which pupils work in groups of 2-3 to build their own water rocket from mostly scrap materials and then launch them up to 150m in the school field.Typical timetable:Short talk on the science of rockets including demonstrations with balloons, foam rockets and dartsPupils build their...LEGO Robotics Activity Day
A LEGO Robotics activity in your school using programmable LEGO. Can be based around a particular theme and can be tailored to computing/science/maths as required.A brief description of how the workshop would be run:Up to 18 robot kits for the pupils to use (in pairs), plus challenge “arena” for testing....Structures challenge: bridges or sports stadiums
Full or half day structures event for up to 200 pupils in teams of 4-6 to design sports stadiums or build and test bridges using A4 paper tubes.Using nothing but scrap A4 paper, masking tape, nuts and bolts, pupils will complete one of the following challenges:Design and build a stadium for a sport of their choice...Pages
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Grants for school
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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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.
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