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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STEM Day

Bring your Year 7 students to Jaguar Land Rover to see first-hand where STEM subjects can take them. A day of interactive activities based around real challenges faced in the world of work, including:Crazy ContaminationMaterial MadnessPerfect Plastics & Robust RubberIncludes a tour of our state-of-the-...

Maths Matters

 The day is delivered through a number of workshops:Measurement Mayhem - pupils will be required to put their decision making skills to practice when they choose the correct equipment from a range of our measuring tools and measure accurately realistic engine parts and check accuracy against required tolerances....

Robotics & Coding Day Camp

Join us for a 5 hour adventure to Mars. Repair and hack broken robots, complete challenging coding missions and save humanity, all in one action-packed day! A Space to Explore Our participants become mini engineers, devising and programming the robots of the future to save civilization! We incorporate visual art...

So you want to be an Engineer?

 Bring along your students to hear first-hand what a large business looks for in its employees and the spectrum of careers available. Through a range of interactive activities students will explore the variety of careers available within the engineering sector and hear about our Apprenticeship and Graduate...

Year 8/9 Careers

 Ideal for students about to choose their options subjects this day will give them the opportunity to explore some of the careers on offer at a large employer and the skills and qualifications required. Students will meet and have the opportunity to question some of our staff about their roles.  Includes a...

Skybolt Rocket

A great centrepiece for a day of enrichment / space education this nine metre rocketship, which will arrive on its own transporter vehicle, is available for hire to schools throughout the UK. The excitement and interest generated by having a real rocket arrive and then elevated to its dramatic, near vertical launch...

Target: Mars – The STEM Space Adventure

 Developing Creative Thinkers in STEMThis Space themed workshop allows teams of pupils to represent rival nations in a race to reach and explore Mars safely.  With bold claims being made by SpaceX and Mars One, both putting real life pressure on the world’s recognised space agencies – the context...

Bunkered – Surviving a Global Disaster

Developing Strategic Thinkers in STEMAn asteroid, as detected by the NEO programme, is hurtling toward Earth!  Pupils work as teams to represent governments around the world.  They must attempt to manage the disaster in the hopes of saving the human race - but what factors will influence their decisions...

Noisy Toys workshops and 'Bass in your Face' shows

 Become part of an electrical circuit, feel one thousand watts of bass through your fingers and send lentils flying in the air with the power of amplified sound.Workshops and assembly shows can be combined in any way during a day at your school. for example; an introductory show followed by three workshops....

Technology, Design & Innovation (TDI) Challenge

The MTA's TDI Challenge exists to help teachers and lecturers to promote the great work of their D&T and Engineering students and to celebrate the creativity and innovation taking place inside the curriculum. In turn, the competition helps our industry to better understand the challenges that education is...

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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.

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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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