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STEM Workshops in Colchester & North Essex
Hands-on STEM workshops delivered directly to your school. From £647/day ex VAT · All equipment provided · UK-wide delivery.
STEM Workshops for Schools in Colchester & North Essex
Hyett Education runs hands-on STEM workshops for primary and secondary schools across Colchester and north Essex, linking pupils to Britain's oldest recorded town and to the University of Essex's pioneering work in robotics, artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces.
Pricing for Colchester & North Essex
Workshop Prices for Your Area
All prices are per day, excluding VAT. Based on your school being in the Essex area.
| Workshop | Key Stages | Price per Day | Per Pupil* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Engineers Express | EYFS – KS1 | £647 | £5.39 | Book |
| Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding | KS1 – KS2 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding | KS2 – KS3 | £797 | £6.64 | Book |
| Advanced STEMbotics: Python Robotics | KS3 – KS4 – KS5 | £797 | £6.64 | Book |
| Drone Coding Workshop | KS2 – KS3 – KS4 – KS5 | £797 | £6.64 | Book |
| AI Workshop for Schools (KS2-KS4): Train Robots with Machine Learning | KS2 – KS3 – KS4 | £797 | £6.64 | Book |
| 3D Design & CAD Printing Workshop | KS2 – KS3 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Cybersecurity & Cryptography Workshop | KS2 – KS3 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Electricity & Circuits Workshop | KS1 – KS2 | £647 | £5.39 | Book |
| Stop-Motion Animation Workshop for Schools | KS1 – KS2 | £647 | £5.39 | 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 Colchester & North Essex
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 Colchester & North Essex
A selection of schools across Essex and beyond that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops.
School Feedback
What Schools in Colchester & North Essex Say
Direct feedback from teachers and schools who have hosted our workshops.
Year 6 teacher; I have never seen all my children so engaged.
STEM in Colchester & North Essex: Why It Matters for Your Students
A History of Innovation
Colchester is Britain's oldest recorded town, named by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder around AD 77 and built as Camulodunum, the first Roman colonia and the first capital of Roman Britain before Boudica's revolt of AD 60. The town also gave science one of its founding figures: William Gilbert was born here in 1544. His 1600 treatise De Magnete was among the first works of modern experimental physics, establishing that the Earth itself behaves as a giant magnet and coining the term 'electricus', the root of the word electricity. Colchester has been a garrison town for more than 165 years and today hosts 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British Army's rapid-response force, a long thread of engineering and logistics running alongside its ancient past. In 2022 the town was granted city status as part of the Platinum Jubilee honours, making Britain's oldest recorded settlement one of its newest cities.
Inspiring STEM Role Models
William Gilbert (1544 to 1603), born in Colchester, served as physician to Elizabeth I and wrote De Magnete, the first systematic study of magnetism and static electricity and a model of evidence-led science that Galileo praised. At the University of Essex, Professor Huosheng Hu led the human-centred robotics team that built the world’s first autonomously controlled robotic fish, unveiled at the London Aquarium in 2005 and later adapted to detect water pollution. The same department, through researchers including Professor Reinhold Scherer, has made the university a recognised centre for brain-computer interfaces, decoding signals from the brain to control machines.
Colchester & North Essex’s STEM Economy Today
The University of Essex's Colchester campus at Wivenhoe Park is the region's research anchor, and its School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering is organised around robotics and embedded systems, computational intelligence and artificial intelligence, and brain-computer interfaces and neural engineering. Its robots have competed in the Robot Soccer World Cup and operate on land, underwater and in the air. Next to the campus, the Knowledge Gateway research and technology park has drawn more than £70m of investment and is home to an Innovation Centre housing more than 40 companies spanning software-as-a-service, fintech, healthtech and digital creative work, alongside firms such as solar-inspection specialists Above Surveying at Parkside Office Village.
STEM Career Pathways for Young People
The University of Essex offers degree routes including BSc Artificial Intelligence and MSc Intelligent Systems and Robotics, plus degree apprenticeships in Digital and Technology Solutions and in embedded electronic systems that let young people earn while they study; chip designer Arm has run a degree apprenticeship with the university giving paid work towards a Computer Science or Electronic Engineering degree. The Knowledge Gateway and Innovation Centre give graduates and apprentices local employers in software, fintech and healthtech, while the garrison and wider Essex economy sustain demand in engineering, logistics and cyber. These are the kinds of robotics, coding and electronics roles our workshops give Colchester pupils an early, hands-on taste of.
Investing in STEM Education in Colchester & North Essex
Colchester pupils grow up where one of science’s founding experimenters was born and where, four centuries later, a university campus a few miles away builds autonomous robots and reads signals straight from the brain. That heritage means little if young people never get their hands on the tools behind it. Our workshops turn the county’s history of enquiry into something pupils do for themselves, programming a robot, flying a drone or training a simple AI model, so the path from a Colchester classroom to the University of Essex robotics lab or a Knowledge Gateway start-up feels real and reachable. From EYFS through to KS5, that early spark is what turns local curiosity into genuine STEM ambition.
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