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STEM Workshops in Cheltenham
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STEM Workshops Across the Cheltenham Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Cheltenham and across Gloucestershire. Each selected workshop identifies product-specific curriculum links, and the specialist equipment specified for the quoted format is provided. The school provides the agreed space and retains its normal on-site duties.
Your school's postcode selects one of five geographic price bands. Use Instant Quote for the applicable price, then confirm availability for your preferred date.
Pricing for Cheltenham
Workshop Prices for Your Area
Published day rates for the Cheltenham catchment run from £627 to £747 per day, excluding VAT. The figure that applies to your school depends on the workshop and on the geographic band selected from the school postcode.
The Cheltenham catchment falls into a single geographic price band, and different workshops carry different day rates within it. Both ends of that range are published rates for a real workshop in a band this area covers, so it is a guide rather than a quote. Enter the school postcode for the day rate that applies to your school and the quoted format. Rates across the wider UK catalogue start from £597 per day excluding VAT, which is a floor rather than a quoted price.
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STEM Workshops Available Across the Cheltenham Travel Catchment
Each workshop identifies relevant curriculum links, and the specialist equipment for the quoted format is provided. Every Hyett Education instructor holds an enhanced DBS certificate and is registered on the DBS Update Service. We can provide DBS certificate details to schools on request before a booking.
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
Hands-on AI and machine learning for pupils aged 8 to 16, with image-recognition models controlling LEGO robots.
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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 for Years 2 to 6. Simple series circuits support statutory Year 4 and Year 6 science; Year 2 conductivity is an enrichment application. The 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 Across the Cheltenham Page Catchment
A selection of schools mapped to this page's travel catchment that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops. This catchment can extend beyond Cheltenham across Gloucestershire; each card shows the school's recorded locality.
Dean Close SchoolCheltenhamWorkshop delivered on siteSTEM in Cheltenham: Why It Matters for Your Students
What is Cheltenham’s STEM heritage?
Cheltenham grew up around a discovery: mineral springs found in 1716 turned a market town into a fashionable spa once Captain Henry Skillicorne began developing the site from 1738. A royal visit by George III in 1788 set the seal on its reputation, and the Pittville Pump Room, completed in 1830, still stands in a town that claims to be the most complete Regency town in Britain. An engineering history runs alongside the spa one. In 1939 the Smiths instrument-making company opened a large factory at Bishop's Cleeve, just north of the town, which made watches and instruments for aircraft. GCHQ, the government's signals intelligence agency, moved its headquarters to Cheltenham in 1951.
Which STEM role models are linked to Cheltenham?
Edward Adrian Wilson, born in Cheltenham in 1872, trained in natural sciences at Cambridge and in medicine in London before serving as zoologist and artist on Scott's Discovery expedition of 1901 to 1904 and as chief of scientific staff on the Terra Nova expedition, dying on the return from the South Pole in 1912. George Dowty, who set up his aircraft equipment firm in Cheltenham in 1931, invented the first internally sprung aircraft wheel, and his equipment was later used on Concorde. John Mercer, born in Cheltenham in 1922, spent decades studying Antarctic ice at Ohio State University and warned in a 1978 Nature paper that greenhouse warming could destabilise the West Antarctic ice sheet, a prediction later studies confirmed.
What STEM industries are in Cheltenham?
GCHQ still has its head office in Cheltenham, one of its main UK sites. Alongside it, CyNam, Gloucestershire's cyber cluster, began as a meetup group in 2015 and now counts more than 5,000 members. On the former Smiths Industries site at Bishop's Cleeve, GE Aerospace designs, develops and manufactures aircraft power distribution and avionics systems. The University of Gloucestershire teaches its Cyber Security degree at The Park, its main campus in Cheltenham.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Cheltenham?
Cybersecurity is the clearest route into work that Cheltenham offers, with GCHQ taking on apprentices as well as people joining on the strength of their degrees. CyNam runs talent and development work and welcomes students interested in Gloucestershire's cyber and technology businesses. The University of Gloucestershire's Cyber Security degree is taught in the town. On the aerospace side, GE Aerospace runs apprenticeships in Cheltenham in advanced manufacturing, manufacturing engineering and test technician work, at a site whose aircraft work traces back to the instrument factory Smiths opened at Bishop's Cleeve in 1939.
Why is STEM education important in Cheltenham?
Cheltenham has spent more than 80 years turning precision and secrecy into a livelihood, from the aircraft instruments once built at Bishop's Cleeve to the signals work GCHQ has carried out since 1951. Both trades reward exactly the kind of thinking a hands-on STEM workshop builds: patient, exact, and curious about how systems fail and why. Pupils who build robots, fly drones or train an AI model are practising, in miniature, the habits the town's cyber and aerospace employers rely on. For headteachers, a workshop day is a direct route from Cheltenham's technical history to the ambitions of the pupils sitting in front of them.
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