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STEM Workshops in Eastbourne
Hands-on STEM workshops delivered directly to your school. From £597/day ex VAT · All equipment provided · UK-wide delivery.
STEM Workshops for Schools in Eastbourne
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to primary and secondary schools across Eastbourne and the surrounding towns, from Hailsham and Polegate to Seaford, Lewes and Uckfield. Robotics, drones, AI, coding and more, with all equipment provided.
Our East Sussex instructor is based in Polegate, around 10 minutes from Eastbourne, so schools across the town benefit from local availability, flexible scheduling, and our most competitive pricing band.
Pricing for Eastbourne
Workshop Prices for Your Area
All prices are per day, excluding VAT. Based on your school being in the East Sussex area.
| Workshop | Key Stages | Price per Day | Per Pupil* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Engineers Express | EYFS – KS1 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
| Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding | KS1 – KS2 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
| Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding | KS2 – KS3 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Advanced STEMbotics: Python Robotics | KS3 – KS4 – KS5 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| Drone Coding Workshop | KS2 – KS3 – KS4 – KS5 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| AI Workshop for Schools (KS2-KS4): Train Robots with Machine Learning | KS2 – KS3 – KS4 | £697 | £5.81 | Book |
| 3D Design & CAD Printing Workshop | KS2 – KS3 | £647 | £5.39 | Book |
| Cybersecurity & Cryptography Workshop | KS2 – KS3 | £647 | £5.39 | Book |
| Electricity & Circuits Workshop | KS1 – KS2 | £597 | £4.97 | Book |
| Stop-Motion Animation Workshop for Schools | KS1 – KS2 | £597 | £4.97 | 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 Eastbourne
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 Eastbourne
A selection of schools across East Sussex and beyond that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops.
School Feedback
What Schools in Eastbourne Say
Direct feedback from teachers and schools who have hosted our workshops.
The workshop was really impressive and lots of the children loved the opportunity to use technical equipment, alongside the Lego.
Fantastic workshop, engaging for all students and has increased interest around STEM subjects for students who took part.
STEM in Eastbourne: Why It Matters for Your Students
A History of Innovation
Eastbourne's corner of East Sussex hosted one of Britain's great scientific institutions. When light pollution made serious astronomy impossible in London, the Royal Greenwich Observatory relocated to Herstmonceux, near Hailsham, a short drive from Eastbourne, and its astronomers worked there for more than three decades until the observatory moved to Cambridge in 1990. The Isaac Newton Telescope, inaugurated at Herstmonceux by Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, was then the largest telescope in the British Isles. The domes and working historic telescopes survive as the Observatory Science Centre, opened in 1995, which still runs telescope tours, science shows and an annual astronomy festival for families and school groups.
Inspiring STEM Role Models
Two Nobel laureates were born in Eastbourne. Frederick Soddy, born in the town in 1877, worked alongside Ernest Rutherford to explain radioactive decay and established the concept of isotopes, earning the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Frederick Gowland Hopkins, born in Eastbourne in 1861, discovered the amino acid tryptophan and showed that animals cannot thrive on protein, fat and carbohydrate alone; the accessory food factors he identified became known as vitamins, and the work earned him a share of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Two Nobel Prizes, in chemistry and in physiology or medicine, both born of the same seaside town.
Eastbourne’s STEM Economy Today
Eastbourne's economy is no longer just tourism and retail. Gardners, one of the UK's largest book wholesalers, runs a national operation from a 350,000 square foot Eastbourne site where automated crane and conveyor systems pick from more than 500,000 product lines for same-day dispatch. The town's digital sector, championed since 2020 by the business collective Chalk Eastbourne, supports around 3,000 jobs with an ambition to reach 10,000; local software firms such as Switchplane and the Eastbourne DigiFest conference are building that momentum.
STEM Career Pathways for Young People
A young person in Eastbourne can follow a STEM route without leaving East Sussex. East Sussex College's Eastbourne campus teaches an engineering T Level in design and development, with a mechanical engineering specialism taught in purpose-built workshops, and the college is a partner in the South East Institute of Technology. TechResort runs coding clubs and offers work experience to local teenagers, a bridge between school and the town's digital firms. The software companies connected through Chalk Eastbourne are hiring as the sector grows, while large employers such as Gardners offer routes into logistics and warehouse automation. And the working historic telescopes at Herstmonceux remain a short trip up the road.
Investing in STEM Education in Eastbourne
Eastbourne's STEM story is easy for pupils to grasp because so much of it is visible. Two Nobel laureates were born in this seaside town. The telescopes that once served Britain's Royal Observatory still turn at Herstmonceux. One of the country's biggest book operations runs on automation from an Eastbourne warehouse, and the local digital sector has set itself the goal of growing from 3,000 jobs to 10,000. Yet many young people still picture local work as seasonal and low-paid. Schools are where that changes. When pupils build robots, fly drones and train AI models in their own hall, those local careers stop being abstract, and headteachers turn Eastbourne's heritage and its growing opportunity into ambitions pupils can act on.
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