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STEM Workshops in Derby
Hands-on STEM workshops delivered directly to your school, in Derby and across East Midlands, with the relevant specialist equipment provided.
Derby area: £597 to £697 per day, excluding VATSee your exact price
RAF STEM Education PartnerNamed on the RAF STEM Services Framework, 2023 to 2028STEM Workshops Across the Derby Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Derby and across East Midlands. 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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Every Hyett Education instructor holds an enhanced DBS certificate and is registered on the DBS Update Service. Your instructor's DBS details are shared in your secure booking portal once your booking is made.
Our Workshops
Workshops available across the Derby catchment
Each workshop identifies relevant curriculum links, and the specialist equipment for the quoted format is 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
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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What Schools Across the Derby Page Catchment Say
Direct feedback from schools that have hosted our workshops and are mapped to this page's travel catchment.
Teachers and SLT attended the workshops and all commented on the content, how engaged the students were and the facilitator Richard's enthusiasm and ability to engage the group.
Cryptography
Fantastic opportunity to engage in STEM activities to identify that coding can be fun and applied to real life situations.
Intermediate STEMbotics
The workshop was incredible, the leader knew exactly what he was talking about and was able to explain this so clearly and simply to the children and staff.
Intermediate STEMbotics
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The children were excited to learn about technology based things and it made them excited about engineering.
Intermediate STEMbotics
It offered valuable professional development, with content relevant to modern e-safety and inspiring interest in cyber security careers for the pupils.
Cryptography
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Schools We've Worked With Across the Derby 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 Derby across East Midlands; each entry shows the school's recorded locality.
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STEM in Derby: Why It Matters for Your Students
Why is STEM education important in Derby?
Rolls-Royce has the largest concentration of its UK employees in Derby, designing and manufacturing some of the most advanced jet engines on the planet. Alstom builds trains here. Toyota manufactures cars at nearby Burnaston. This isn't a city where advanced manufacturing is a historical curiosity; it's the living, breathing heart of the local economy. And all three of those companies, along with smaller firms, are investing heavily in next-generation technologies that require a constant pipeline of skilled engineers, data scientists, and technicians. Rolls-Royce's apprenticeship programme is competitive to get into, but applicants need solid STEM foundations to compete. Schools in Derby that take STEM seriously aren't preparing children for some vague future possibility. They're preparing them for careers that already exist in their own city.
What is Derby’s STEM heritage?
Derby has been at the heart of British engineering excellence for over two centuries. The city became a centre of the Industrial Revolution through its silk mills and railway engineering, with the Midland Railway establishing its headquarters here in the 1840s. In 1908, Rolls-Royce moved its manufacturing operations to Derby, beginning a relationship that would see some of the world's most advanced aero engines designed and built here, including the Merlin engine that powered the Spitfire and Lancaster bomber during the Second World War.
Which STEM role models are linked to Derby?
Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, established the company's Derby works and set a standard of engineering perfection that endures to this day. Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, saw his revolutionary design taken up by Rolls-Royce, whose Derby-based engineers built on it from the 1940s onwards, transforming both the company and the city into the global centre of jet propulsion technology. Florence Nightingale, whose family home was Lea Hurst near Matlock in Derbyshire, was not only the founder of modern nursing but also a pioneering statistician who used innovative data visualisations, including the polar area diagram, to demonstrate the causes of mortality in military hospitals, transforming public health policy. Derby-based engineers have led the development of the Trent family of engines, which power many of the world's wide-body aircraft.
What STEM industries are in Derby?
Derby remains an advanced manufacturing city anchored by Rolls-Royce, whose Derby site has the largest concentration of its UK employees, designing and manufacturing civil and defence aero engines, including the next-generation UltraFan engine. Alstom's Litchurch Lane facility is one of the UK's last remaining train manufacturing plants. Toyota Manufacturing UK operates its car production plant at nearby Burnaston. The city also hosts the iHub innovation centre at Infinity Park, a dedicated enterprise zone for advanced engineering businesses.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Derby?
Derby offers some of the strongest advanced manufacturing and engineering career pathways in the UK. Rolls-Royce runs a long-established apprenticeship programme, taking on apprentices each year across engineering, manufacturing, and digital technology. Alstom and Toyota also operate significant apprenticeship and graduate schemes in rail and automotive engineering. The University of Derby offers strong programmes in mechanical engineering, aerospace, computing, and advanced manufacturing with close industry links.
Also near Derby
Our instructors deliver workshops across East Midlands and beyond, including Derbyshire, Burton upon Trent, Ashbourne, Belper, Ilkeston, Long Eaton and Matlock.
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