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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Ocean Explorers Club - Marine Biology FREE Virtual Session
WiseOceans is marine conservation and education company that has been delivering marine education across the world, both virtually and in person, for over ten years. During the last ten years, we have engaged over 11,000 students and teachers across 37 countries! Our virtual lessons are delivered by active...USE YOUR VOICE - Protect Our Future
The challenge is introduced by an inspirational video featuring athletes who share their own stories about climate action.The linked teaching and learning materials for 8-11- & 11–18-year-olds provide opportunity for young people to capture their own climate action stories in a video clip, to promote...The mathematics of morality
If you’re a smart, curious, and ambitiously altruistic maths student in years 11, 12, or 13, explore how you can make a difference (and boost your UCAS/CV!) by applying for Leaf’s new, free “The mathematics of morality” fellowship.This is a 5-week online programme exploring how you can use...Dilemmas and dangers in AI: How YOU can make a difference
If you’re a smart, curious, and ambitiously altruistic student in years 11, 12, or 13, explore how you can make a difference (and boost your UCAS/CV!) by applying for Leaf’s new, free fellowship, “Dilemmas and dangers in AI: How YOU can make a difference”.This is a 5-week, interdisciplinary...'Propel into Future Flight' Boot Camp
Flight Crowd is excited to present our ‘Propel into Future Flight’ series of week-long boot camps! This UK-wide experience allows young people (ages 14-18) to solve an industry challenge, collaborate with and learn from leading Air Mobility experts, and be empowered to pursue a career in Sustainable...The EM Spectrum and how we measure it
In a demo-rich talk, one hour long talk, we shall go through the spectrum from the lowest frequency balloon waves (created when you manually move a charged balloon up and down), to gamma rays and everything in between.As I'm from the UK's National Measurement Institute we shall include discussions of how our...Out of This World; Space Coding Challenge
The "Out of This World" activities compromise of two workshops you can download and deliver in your school or club.Workshop 1: Jump to the moon, teaches pupils to code a micro:bit so that it can train pupils to have a steady hand - you don't want to be a clumsy astronaut!Workshop 2: Speed of Light helps...BIG Primary STEM Day - North Yorkshire Coast
What is the BIG STEM Primary Day?This event is part of a brand new careers and STEM related programme of activity, supported by employers aims to excite and showcase the variety of STEM job roles, challenge stereotyping, provide opportunity to explore careers and understand future pathways into STEM. The BIG STEM...Institute for Research in Schools
The Institute for Research in Schools (IRIS) aims to change the culture in UK education so that authentic research and innovation is part of every young person’s experience.IRIS invites all UK secondary schools and over 16s to take part in its research projects and benefit from the charity’s support.To...Apps for Good
Apps for Good computing courses give students the skills and motivation to shape their future through technology, while giving teachers the support and confidence to pick up and deliver high quality content and resources. We are an education charity committed to offering an opportunity for all. In the past 12 years,...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.
Please use the link below to register and submit an activity.