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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A Universe of Infinities - Maths talk
Infinity is a notoriously tricky concept to juggle with. It’s not even really a number. And yet it seems to crop up time and again when astronomers try to understand our universe. Did the universe start from an infinitely small speck? Can the universe really be infinitely big? Can there be infinitely many...A Universe of Infinities - Maths talk
Infinity is a notoriously tricky concept to juggle with. It’s not even really a number. And yet it seems to crop up time and again when astronomers try to understand our universe. Did the universe start from an infinitely small speck? Can the universe really be infinitely big? Can there be infinitely many...Real Science or Just Bangs? (Science of Fireworks show)
Explore the colourful and explosive world of pyrotechnics as Matthew Tosh deconstructs the STEM behind firework displays.He'll demonstrate how to create colours, different sound effects, shock waves and perfectly timed bursts in time to music, whilst ensuring that displays are safe. Fully customisable to fit your...Bits and Pieces: Secrets of a Digital World
DescriptionThe presentation is a look at the maths behind how we send messages on the internet.We will look at how photos, videos and messages are turned into 1s and 0s, using binary numbers, and then transmitted.We will introduce Hedy Lemarr, the woman who invented frequency hopping, an idea we still...I'm a Scientist, Get me out of here!
I'm a Scientist is a student-led activity connecting students with a range of scientists from different specialisms and backgrounds.Students can:Read the profiles of scientists working in different careersChat with scientists in 40-minute, energetic, text-based online ChatsAsk in depth follow-up questionsVote for...Maths in The Animal Kingdom
What do butterflies, starfish, bees, ants, cicadas, sunflowers, ferns and viruses have in common? They are all excellent mathematicians.Bring maths to life with this KS2 talk on the symmetry, shapes and sequences found in the natural world. Based on my award winning children's maths book The Language of The...STEM Wizard School
GET TWO SHOWS FOR ONLY £500As S.T.E.M. & C.I.T.B. ambassadors, ALLANSMAGIC' Wizard Schools will show how STEM can be used to create magic, inspire pupils and show how STEM is useful in any career.The 40 minute presentation will show how amazing magic can be created with S.T.E.M. principles....Architecture Workshops: STEM workshops For EYFS
Architecture Workshops, have been running hands-on cross-curricular workshops, in schools for all Key stages and Abilities since 1996. Our workshops experiences are some of the best your pupils are ever likely to be involved in and something that will stay with them throughout their educational life. Our STEM...Kids in Space
A fun fifty-minute long interactive performance that takes children on an imaginary journey through our solar system. Highlights include: a recreation of Neil Armstrong’s first step, a bombardment by asteroids and built-to-scale model planets that show how small the Earth is compared to its giant neighbours!The...RoboKids
RoboKids takes primary school audiences on a fun and inspiring journey into the future of space exploration, programming and robots. Help programme our friendly robot “Nao” and her friends for a joint human and robotic Aurora mission to Mars! Linked to the National Curriculum Key Stages 1...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.
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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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