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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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...

CANDOO - a careers card game

CANDOO® is a card based game which includes a set of career cards, skills cards, qualification cards, life experience cards and a full set of instructions.The aim of the game is to build up skills and qualifications to complete your career path. You can complete your career path by collecting 4 out of 5 skills...

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...

Hack Your Brain

An introduction to the workings of your brain & nervous system. By creating a giant 'neuron' live on stage, this show explores the ways in which nerve cells send messages through the brain and body, and looks at how we can hijack these signals to allow one human to control the movements of another

Fun Science Workshops

We offer an alternative to taking your pupils to a science museum with our science workshops. All workshops are fully interactive and run by a highly trained Fun Scientist.We currently have a range of pre-prepared 55 minute long workshops available to cover the following themes.Our...

Fun Science Sheffield

At Fun Science Sheffield we provide science assemblies, workshops, and after school STEM or robotics clubs. Our aim is to foster within children a life long passion for learning and a desire to find things out for themselves through access to high tech science equipment in a safe environment.All of our activities are...

Chemical and Physical Reactions Workshop

Can be adapted for KS1 or KS2. This hands on workshop has children mixing together chemicals to see fizzing, bubbling, heat production and liquids that suddenly become solids. Every child will get to take part in every experiment so there is no chance for anyone to lose interest. Activities in this workshop include...

It’s Electrifying! Workshop

Can be adapted for KS1 or KS2. This session is full of big machines, group interaction and learning about both current and static electricity. Activities include making a human circuit, sticking hair up in the air with our amazing Van de Graaff generator and even making electricity inside.

Science of Sweets Workshop

Can be adapted for KS1 or KS2. This session focuses on carbon dioxide and how it is used to make fizzy drinks and sweets. Children will all be making their own sherbet to take home, making a giant fizzy fountain and even seeing how candy floss is made. This session also includes colour changing reactions and fizzing...

Human Body Workshop

Can be adapted for KS1 or KS2. This is one of our most disgusting sessions (and one of the most popular!) with poo making, mucus mixing and (optional) looking at a real heart. Children will also have a chance to test their heart rate with some high tech equipment including stethoscopes and a pulse oximeter.

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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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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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