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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The Royal Institution: Science in schools

Our programme of Science in Schools brings our popular demonstration shows into school across the UK, accompanied by valuable Continuing Professional Development sessions for teachers. The shows give students, teachers and families a chance to see our specially trained presenters in action, delivering science shows...

Islamic Geometric Patterns Workshop

Islamic Geometry Workshops: Constructing a pattern by hand, step by step using a compass and straight edge, is an entirely absorbing and satisfying art form. Starting with a blank sheet of paper we draw layers of lines and circles to create a complex underlying grid from which a beautiful pattern will emerge. We then...

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....

NRICH Hands-On Maths Roadshow

Do you want to inspire your children? Show them that mathematics is full of awe and wonder? Support them on their mathematical journey? Then let the NRICH Roadshow be part of this adventure and kick it off with a day of engaging maths.The NRICH Roadshow is a collection of geometric puzzles, strategy games and other...

Generation Science

Generation Science is the schools touring programme from Edinburgh International Science Festival. Each year we deliver interactive science shows and hands-on workshops in primary schools all over Scotland. In 2019 the tour runs from 28 January - 24 May. On offer this year are 15 workshops each exploring areas within...

Bubbly Maths Day

 Imagine a day in school where every child loves learning and enjoys mathematics. That is our aim. Oh and every school gets to see at least ONE person in a bubble #justforfun.We have been delivering shows and workshops since 200, having reached over 200,000 to date and our founder travels around the world. We are...

Y5 & Y6 Maths Enrichment Workshop: Joan Clarke and the Codebreakers (2.5 hours)

This session will explore code-breaking from ancient times including the Rosetta Stone, Caesar Cipher and transposition ciphers leading to the decrypting of the Enigma Machine code at Bletchley Park and in particular, Joan Clark, an outstanding mathematician and close friend and colleague of Alan...

Y5 & Y6 Maths Enrichment Workshop: Endless Possibilities with Squares (2.5 hours)

This practical workshop for Y5 and 6 pupils will enrich their knowledge of multiplication and square numbers and provide activities which will lead the pupils to 'discover' the meaning of Pythagorus' Theorum from a conceptual point of view.Pupils will investigate properties of square numbers and how they...

Y5 & Y6 Maths Enrichment Workshop: Endless Possibilities with Squares (2.5 hours)

This practical workshop for Y5 and 6 pupils will enrich their knowledge of multiplication and square numbers and provide activities which will lead the pupils to 'discover' the meaning of Pythagorus' Theorum from a conceptual point of view.Pupils will investigate properties of square numbers and how they...

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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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