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STEM Workshops in Durham
Hands-on STEM workshops delivered directly to your school. Postcode-based pricing · Relevant specialist equipment provided · UK-wide enquiries welcome.
STEM Workshops Across the Durham Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Durham 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.
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 Durham
Workshop Prices for Your Area
Published day rates for the Durham 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 Durham 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 Durham 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 Durham 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 Durham across County Durham; each card shows the school's recorded locality.
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What is Durham’s STEM heritage?
Durham University was founded in 1832 and is often called England's third-oldest university, after Oxford and Cambridge. Durham Cathedral, begun in 1093, used ribbed vaulting across its nave that architectural historians credit as marking the beginning of Gothic architecture in Europe, and the cathedral remains a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside Durham Castle. To the west, the Consett Iron Company, registered in 1864 and descended from the Derwent Iron Company founded in 1840, grew by the 1890s into the operator of the largest steel plate factory in the world, employing about 6,000 people in 1892 before the works finally closed in 1980. Near Stanley, Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, opened to visitors in 1972 under founding director Frank Atkinson and still preserves the county's colliery, railway and farming heritage.
Which STEM role models are linked to Durham?
Timothy Hackworth, born in Northumberland in 1786, became the Stockton and Darlington Railway's first locomotive superintendent in 1825 and spent the rest of his career in Shildon, County Durham, where he built the Royal George in 1827, usually credited as the first locomotive with a correctly aligned steam blastpipe, and entered his engine Sans Pareil in the 1829 Rainhill Trials. Sir Arnold Wolfendale was Durham University's Professor of Physics from 1965 to 1992, researching cosmic radiation, and served as Astronomer Royal from 1991 to 1995. A railway pioneer and a cosmic ray physicist, more than a century apart, both built their careers in Durham.
What STEM industries are in Durham?
Durham University's Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, a joint venture with the Science and Technology Facilities Council founded in 2000, supports the UK's particle physics community. At NETPark in Sedgefield, delivered by Business Durham, more than 40 companies employing over 1,000 people work alongside national centres including the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult and the National Healthcare Photonics Centre; Kromek Group, a Durham University spin-out and NETPark's first tenant in 2004, designs radiation detection technology there. At Newton Aycliffe, Hitachi Rail's factory, open since September 2015, had by 2020 employed around 700 people locally building intercity and Class 385 trains.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Durham?
New College Durham, based at Framwellgate Moor, runs engineering apprenticeships from Level 2 fabrication and welding through to a Level 4 mechanical engineering manufacturing technician programme, alongside mechatronics and machining routes. Employers recruit directly from these routes: Hitachi Rail's Newton Aycliffe factory and the science and technology employers at NETPark, including Kromek Group and the Centre for Process Innovation, both draw on technicians and engineers trained across the county. Together they offer a Durham pupil a route from classroom to career without leaving County Durham.
Why is STEM education important in Durham?
Durham's story runs from Norman stonemasons to particle physicists, from a steelworks that once ran the world's largest steel plate factory to a technology park building radiation detectors and a rail factory building trains. Each shift needed practical, technical skill rather than luck. The pits and ironworks that built the county are long closed, but the physics tracing cosmic rays and the firms growing at NETPark show the same instinct for problem-solving carried into new industries. Pupils rarely connect Durham Cathedral's engineering to the research computing happening across the city today. A hands-on workshop day, building robots, flying drones or training an AI model, makes that connection concrete for the pupils taking part.
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