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.

Listing all results (207)

Cartoon Science

Discover the differences between cartoon science and real science. We look at friction, materials, gravity, the laws of motion and more.The laws of physics within cartoons may seem drastically different from the scientific laws within our world, but how different are they?  Does gravity only work when you...

Who wants to be a Superhero?

Meet six real-life young scientists and engineers.  Each one has made a sixty-second video about their job and what they enjoy most about it.  We use these as a springboard to leap straight into some fascinating areas of science and engineering, with interactive demonstrations involving volunteers from the...

It’s Only Water!… Or is it?

This exciting Science Made Simple show explores all the amazing properties of water. From heating to freezing, can you squash it, absorb it, or dissolve chemicals in it? We can use water to do all sorts of unexpected things!Be prepared to get wet, in this interactive show which may see students (and teachers) get a...

On Your Marks, Get Set!

From the moment you leave the starting blocks, your sporting ability can be affected by science.How do people balance, and what makes them fall over? What happens when a ball bounces, and why do balls have different surfaces? How is friction useful in sport and how do we use science to protect us from injury?Watch...

Summer School Catch Up Programmes 2021 - STEM Programmes and Workshops

We all know that, this year more than ever, the key to success for catch-up Summer Schools will lie in engaging pupils in in their learning by harnessing their creativity and unleashing their imaginations – by providing playful yet powerfully effective approaches. Which is exactly what we at As...

Computing Workshops for Primaries CHESTER - Lego Robotics, Micro:Bit, Animation, Web Design and more!

A wide range of computing workshops designed specifically for Primary School Children – exciting and engaging while reinforcing the principles of computational thinking. Workshops include programming and coding with Scratch, Python or Kodu using  XBox controllers; inventors' workshops with the Micro:Bit...

Computing Workshops for Primaries NORTH WEST LONDON - Lego Robotics, Micro:Bit, Animation, Web Design and more!

A wide range of computing workshops designed specifically for Primary School Children – exciting and engaging while reinforcing the principles of computational thinking. Workshops include programming and coding with Scratch, Python or Kodu using  XBox controllers; inventors' workshops with the Micro:Bit...

School of Noise - Exploring Sound

The School of Noise delivers practical workshops exploring music and the science of sound. With a mix of demonstrations and hands-on use of equipment, our activities provide a creative and educational event to support the curriculum, STEM and enrichment learning. “Thank you for a great day. The children...

Creative Maths Workshops for Primary Schools - UK wide

One of the UK's leading providers of Creative Maths workshops to primary and secondary schools. Over half a million children and young people have taken part in one of our Creative Maths workshops. All of our Primary maths workshops have been carefully designed to both...

Fun Science West Lancs

At Fun Science West Lancs, we provide science assemblies, spectacular science shows, workshops, and after school science clubs, as well as slime stalls, rocket launches and explosions for school fayres etc. We can travel to most of North West England.Our aim is to foster within children a life long passion for...

Pages

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.

Find out more

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.

Please let us know if you have any comments on this facility.

Get in touch

Providers: add an activity

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.

Share your activities