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STEM Workshops in Chester
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STEM Workshops Across the Chester Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Chester and across Cheshire. 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.
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Pricing for Chester
Workshop Prices for Your Area
Published day rates for the Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester 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 Chester across Cheshire; each card shows the school's recorded locality.
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What Schools Across the Chester Page Catchment Say
Direct feedback from schools that have hosted our workshops and are mapped to this page's travel catchment.
The workshop was awesome, it’s so much fun to use Lego as a tool to solve real world problems.
STEM in Chester: Why It Matters for Your Students
What is Chester’s STEM heritage?
Chester began as Deva Victrix, a Roman legionary fortress established around AD 75 under the emperor Vespasian, about a fifth larger than its counterparts at York and Caerleon. Its amphitheatre, built in the 1st century to seat between 8,000 and 10,000 people, remains the largest known military amphitheatre in Britain, and the city walls that encircle the centre, nearly two miles round, are the most complete in the country. Seventeen centuries later, the architect and engineer Thomas Harrison designed Grosvenor Bridge over the River Dee: built between 1827 and 1833 with a single 200-foot stone arch, it was the longest stone arch in the world at the time, a record it held for thirty years, and it still carries traffic on Grosvenor Road today.
Which STEM role models are linked to Chester?
Thomas Harrison, baptised in Richmond, Yorkshire in 1744, had moved to Chester by 1795 and became county surveyor for Cheshire, designing the Shire Hall and prisoner accommodation at Chester Castle. His final commission, Grosvenor Bridge, was completed in 1833, four years after his death. Thomas Brassey was born in 1805 at Buerton, about six miles south of Chester, and became one of the Victorian era's most prolific railway contractors: by 1847 he had built about a third of Britain's railways and three-quarters of France's, and by his death in 1870 he had built roughly one in twenty miles of railway in the world, from Canada to India.
What STEM industries are in Chester?
The University of Chester's School of Computer and Engineering Sciences, part of its Faculty of Science, Business and Enterprise, teaches engineering and computer science alongside a separate School of Natural Sciences. Chester Zoo, which opened in 1931, runs a conservation science programme alongside its animal collection: its staff coordinate European breeding programmes and studbooks for threatened species such as the Javan banteng and the blue-throated macaw, it became the first zoo to breed the tuatara outside New Zealand, and in 2025 it reported a successful early trial of a vaccine against the elephant virus EEHV, developed in partnership with the University of Surrey and the Animal and Plant Health Agency.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Chester?
The University of Chester's School of Computer and Engineering Sciences offers degrees in computer science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, electronic and chemical engineering and mathematics, with work placements built into its courses. Cheshire College South and West, with a campus in Chester, runs apprenticeships in engineering and manufacturing, construction and building services and ICT alongside its academic courses. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, authorised as a foundation trust in 2004, provides NHS care to a population of over 400,000 people in Chester and West Cheshire. Chester Zoo adds a further route into conservation science, working with research partners such as the University of Surrey.
Why is STEM education important in Chester?
Chester's Roman fortress and amphitheatre were built by military engineers, its Grosvenor Bridge held the record for the world's longest stone arch for thirty years, and Thomas Brassey, born a few miles from the city, went on to build railways worldwide. That same practical engineering now shows up in the city's university science courses and in the conservation research behind Chester Zoo's breeding programmes for threatened species. A hands-on workshop day, building robots, flying drones or training an AI model, turns that history into something a school can picture its own pupils doing.
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