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STEM Workshops in Darlington
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STEM Workshops Across the Darlington Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Darlington and across County Durham. 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 Darlington
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Published day rates for the Darlington catchment run from £697 to £847 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 Darlington 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 Darlington 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.
View WorkshopSTEM in Darlington: Why It Matters for Your Students
What is Darlington’s STEM heritage?
The Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened on 27 September 1825, was the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives. On the opening day Locomotion No. 1, built at Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle, hauled the first train from collieries near Shildon through Darlington to Stockton. The railway's leading backer was the Quaker entrepreneur Edward Pease, who subscribed £7,000 towards it. Cleveland Bridge and Engineering, founded in Darlington in 1877, built the Victoria Falls Bridge and the Tees Transporter Bridge before closing in 2021 after 144 years. In 2008 the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust completed Tornado, the first main line steam locomotive built in the UK since 1960.
Which STEM role models are linked to Darlington?
Alfred Kitching (1808 to 1882), a Quaker, established the Hope Town Foundry in Darlington in 1832 with his father William, and in 1845 the Kitchings built the locomotive Derwent to a design by Timothy Hackworth; Derwent survives and has been on display at Darlington's North Road Station museum since 1975. The Kitching business later moved to Whessoe Foundry in Darlington, and Whessoe went on to design and build reactor vessels for nuclear power stations including Calder Hall, Hunterston B and Hinkley B. John Kenworthy (1883 to 1940), who was living in Darlington aged 17 at the 1901 census, became chief designer at the Royal Aircraft Factory during the First World War, producing the F.E.8 fighter and the R.E.8 reconnaissance aircraft, was chief draughtsman on the team that designed the S.E.5 scout, and later founded Redwing Aircraft.
What STEM industries are in Darlington?
Darlington Economic Campus, set up after the 2021 spring budget and based at Feethams House, brings together civil servants from nine government departments, including HM Treasury, the Department for Education and the Office for National Statistics; it reached 1,000 recruits in autumn 2024, more than 80 per cent of them recruited locally. At Hopetown Darlington, beside North Road Station, one of the world's oldest railway buildings, visitors can watch A1 Steam Locomotive Trust volunteers building a new steam locomotive, Prince of Wales. Darlington College teaches engineering, digital and information technology and T Levels, and in 2026 the developer Cityheart submitted a planning application for a STEM Centre at Darlington Science Park.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Darlington?
Darlington College offers engineering, digital and T Level routes locally, with apprenticeship vacancies advertised on its site, and its partnership with Teesside University brings higher education courses to the town. The Darlington Economic Campus, where the Office for National Statistics employs analysts, offers a route into government data and economic analysis, and more than 80 per cent of its first 1,000 recruits came from the local area. Together they let a Darlington pupil move from a college workshop to a national career without relocating.
Why is STEM education important in Darlington?
Darlington's identity rests on people who built things that had not existed before: Edward Pease backing a public steam railway, the Kitchings building locomotives at Hope Town Foundry, John Kenworthy designing his first aircraft before he was thirty. Later generations built nuclear reactor vessels and, in 2008, a new main line steam locomotive. A hands-on workshop day, building robots, flying drones or training an AI model, helps pupils connect the town's pioneering railway with careers of their own. For headteachers, it turns Darlington's founding story into something pupils can build for themselves.
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