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STEM Workshops in Burton upon Trent
Hands-on STEM workshops delivered directly to your school. From £597/day ex VAT · All equipment provided · UK-wide delivery.
STEM Workshops for Schools in Burton upon Trent
We deliver STEM workshops to schools across Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire and South Derbyshire, from Uttoxeter and Barton-under-Needwood to Swadlincote. Robotics, drones, AI, coding and electricity, run in your own hall by DBS-checked instructors, with every piece of equipment provided.
Our East Staffordshire instructor is based in Burton upon Trent itself, so local schools benefit from same-day availability, flexible scheduling, and our most competitive pricing band.
Pricing for Burton upon Trent
Workshop Prices for Your Area
All prices are per day, excluding VAT. Based on your school being in the Staffordshire area.
| Workshop | Key Stages | Price per Day | Per Pupil* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Engineers Express | EYFS – KS1 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
| Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding | KS1 – KS2 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
| Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding | KS2 – KS3 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Advanced STEMbotics: Python Robotics | KS3 – KS4 – KS5 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Drone Coding Workshop | KS2 – KS3 – KS4 – KS5 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| AI Workshop for Schools (KS2-KS4): Train Robots with Machine Learning | KS2 – KS3 – KS4 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| 3D Design & CAD Printing Workshop | KS2 – KS3 | £647 | £5.39 | Book |
| Cybersecurity & Cryptography Workshop | KS2 – KS3 | £647 | £5.39 | Book |
| Electricity & Circuits Workshop | KS1 – KS2 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
| Stop-Motion Animation Workshop for Schools | KS1 – KS2 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
*Per-pupil price based on 120 pupils, a common number of students we typically engage each day. Your actual per-pupil cost will depend on your group size.
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Our Workshops
STEM Workshops Available in Burton upon Trent
Every workshop is curriculum-aligned, delivered by DBS-checked educators, with all equipment provided.
Early Engineers Express
A play-based EYFS and KS1 engineering workshop using LEGO Duplo trains. Children design, build, and test train tracks, bridges, and stations through hands-on construction challenges.
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Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Inclusive robotics and coding workshop for KS1 and KS2 using LEGO Spike Essentials and LEGO WeDo 2.0. Children code with icon blocks or word blocks, and no reading ability is required.
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Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Intermediate robotics workshop for KS2 to KS3. Block-based programming with LEGO Spike Prime and EV3, advanced robot builds, sensors, and challenge mats.
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Advanced STEMbotics: Python Robotics
Advanced text-based Python robotics for KS3 to KS5 using LEGO Spike Prime. Real-world engineering applications with up to 30 students per session.
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Drone Coding Workshop
Code flight paths and explore aerospace engineering through hands-on drone programming. Up to 30 students per session, with safety eyewear provided for everyone.
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AI Workshop for Schools (KS2-KS4): Train Robots with Machine Learning
Bring real artificial intelligence into your classroom. In a single day, Year 4 to Year 11 students (ages 8 to 16) train their own image-recognition models, control LEGO robots that respond to what they see, and discuss AI ethics in age-appropriate language. Sessions are delivered in your school by an enhanced DBS-checked instructor with all equipment provided. Pricing from £597/day, up to 120 students across the day. Aligned to the National Curriculum for Computing and the Gatsby careers benchmarks.
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3D Design & CAD Printing Workshop
CAD design and 3D printing workshops combining digital creativity with physical manufacturing.
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Cybersecurity & Cryptography Workshop
Cryptography, codebreaking, and online safety through engaging, hands-on challenges.
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Electricity & Circuits Workshop
Hands-on experiments exploring electricity, circuits, conductors and insulators for Years 2 to 6. Heavily mapped to Year 2, Year 4 and Year 6 science units. In-depth format includes eBook creation.
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Stop-Motion Animation Workshop for Schools
Create LEGO stop-motion animations using professional techniques. Perfect for KS1 and KS2 creative computing.
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Schools We've Worked With in Burton upon Trent
A selection of schools across Staffordshire and beyond that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops.
School Feedback
What Schools in Burton upon Trent Say
Direct feedback from teachers and schools who have hosted our workshops.
Activities engaged all, including a child who is reluctant to take part in learning and a child with high SEND needs.
I enjoyed the building, programming and the coding.
STEM in Burton upon Trent: Why It Matters for Your Students
A History of Innovation
Burton upon Trent is where brewing became a science. Water rising through the town's gypsum beds is naturally rich in calcium sulphate, and Victorian brewers learned to read that chemistry so precisely that adding these salts to brewing water anywhere is still called Burtonisation. By the late 1880s more than thirty breweries drew on the pale ale trade led by Bass and Allsopp, and their laboratories were early examples of science applied directly to industry. In 1902 the Marmite Food Extract Company opened here too, turning spent brewer's yeast from Bass into a national product. Chemistry, not luck, built this town.
Inspiring STEM Role Models
Two Fellows of the Royal Society worked at the bench in Burton's breweries. Cornelius O'Sullivan joined Bass in 1866 and became head of its scientific staff, winning the Chemical Society's Longstaff Medal in 1884 for research on carbohydrates and election to the Royal Society in 1885. A few streets away, the German chemist Johann Peter Griess spent more than twenty-five years at Allsopp's; his earlier discovery of the diazotisation reaction underpins the synthetic azo dyes that colour much of the world. Pupils rarely hear that a brewery bench produced science of that reach.
Burton upon Trent’s STEM Economy Today
The science has not left town. Molson Coors still brews in Burton and now bases its UK operation here, so the industry that made the place remains a working employer. On the edge of town, the Football Association's St George's Park trains all of England's national teams, with the FA's own sports science, medicine and performance analysis staff based on site. Pirelli continues to make tyres at its long-established Burton factory. Up the road at Rocester, JCB designs and builds construction machinery from its world headquarters, one of the largest engineering employers in the region.
STEM Career Pathways for Young People
That mix of industry sits within reach of Burton's pupils. Burton and South Derbyshire College runs engineering apprenticeships from Level 2 through to Level 3 Engineering Fitter, feeding local employers directly. At Rocester, the JCB Academy takes pupils from thirteen into engineering and business, sponsored by JCB and backed by the Royal Academy of Engineering, with partners including Toyota and Bosch. Between Molson Coors, JCB, Pirelli's manufacturing and the sports science teams at St George's Park, a child in Burton can picture a STEM career without leaving Staffordshire. The routes are real, local and already hiring.
Investing in STEM Education in Burton upon Trent
A Hyett Education day connects that story to something pupils build with their own hands. In your school hall, children programme robots, fly drones through coding challenges, wire real electrical circuits and meet AI by training it themselves, the same move from curiosity to controlled result that Burton's brewers made when they turned water chemistry into an industry. It shows them that the science behind Burtonisation, a Marmite jar and a JCB digger is the same science they can do today. We bring every robot, drone, laptop and component; you provide the hall. For a headteacher, it is a memorable, curriculum-linked STEM day that plants local ambition. Book a day and see it land.
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