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STEM Workshops in Fife
Hands-on STEM workshops delivered directly to your school. Postcode-based pricing · Relevant specialist equipment provided · UK-wide enquiries welcome.
STEM Workshops Across the Fife Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Fife and across Scotland. The school provides the agreed space and retains its normal on-site duties. Workshop planning can be informed by Curriculum for Excellence and Scottish P/S stages. Links for the selected workshop are confirmed before booking, alongside the safeguarding and vetting arrangements for your school.
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 Fife
Workshop Prices for Your Area
Published day rates for the Fife 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 Fife 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 Fife Travel Catchment
Each workshop identifies relevant curriculum links, and the specialist equipment for the quoted format is provided.
Early Engineers Express
Children design, build, and test train tracks, bridges, and stations through hands-on construction challenges.
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Beginner STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Children code with icon blocks or word blocks, and no reading ability is required.
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Intermediate STEMbotics: Robotics & Coding
Block-based programming with LEGO Spike Prime and EV3, advanced robot builds, sensors, and challenge mats.
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Advanced STEMbotics: Python Robotics
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: 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
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.
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Schools We've Worked With Across the Fife 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 Fife across Scotland; each card shows the school's recorded locality.
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What Schools Across the Fife Page Catchment Say
Direct feedback from schools that have hosted our workshops and are mapped to this page's travel catchment.
This is amazing, I'd never get the chance to fly a drone at home.
All staff commented on how relaxed he was with the pupils whilst issuing instructions and working with them.
STEM in Fife: Why It Matters for Your Students
What is Fife’s STEM heritage?
Fife's industrial history runs from cloth to warships. In Kirkcaldy, Michael Nairn began floorcloth production in 1847, and when Frederick Walton's patent expired in 1876 Nairn and other floorcloth makers began making linoleum, and the town remained a world producer until the mid-1960s, a trade still recalled in Mary Campbell Smith's 1913 poem about the smell of the linoleum factories. Dunfermline built its own textile trade on damask linen weaving, brought from Edinburgh by the weaver James Blake in 1718, with Erskine Beveridge's St Leonard's Mill, established in 1851, the largest of its factories, before damask weaving went into decline after the First World War. On the Forth, construction of Rosyth Dockyard began in 1909, and its first ship docked there in 1916.
Which STEM role models are linked to Fife?
Sandford Fleming, born in Kirkcaldy in 1827, emigrated to Canada in 1845 and became a railway engineer; after missing a train in 1876 because of a timetable error, he proposed a worldwide system of 24 standard time zones, and he also designed Canada's first postage stamp in 1851. James Gregory, who described a design for a reflecting telescope in his 1663 book Optica Promota, became the first Regius Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews in 1668. Robert Adamson, born in St Andrews in 1821, worked in engineering before turning to photography, and from 1843 partnered David Octavius Hill to produce around 2,500 calotype portraits and a documentary series on the fishing families of Newhaven.
What STEM industries are in Fife?
Rosyth Dockyard is now owned by Babcock International, having carried out final assembly of the aircraft carriers HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, and Babcock is building the Royal Navy's five Type 31 frigates there. In St Andrews, the University's Sea Mammal Research Unit, established in 1978 and based at the University since 1996, supplies advice to the UK Government on the management of seals.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Fife?
Fife College teaches across Kirkcaldy, Dunfermline, Glenrothes and Levenmouth campuses, with courses spanning computing and software development, automotive engineering and Modern Apprenticeships. The University of St Andrews' Sea Mammal Research Unit, where staff and students carry out research on marine mammals, shows a route into marine biology through university study. At Rosyth, where Babcock International is building the Type 31 frigates, the company recruits skilled trades such as welders and fabricators and offers apprenticeships through its early careers programme.
Why is STEM education important in Fife?
Fife's story runs from Kirkcaldy's linoleum floors and Dunfermline's damask looms to the frigates being built at Rosyth today, a thread of generations of practical engineering. Sandford Fleming left Kirkcaldy and went on to propose worldwide standard time zones; James Gregory taught mathematics at St Andrews, and Robert Adamson was born there. A hands-on workshop day, building robots, flying drones or training an AI model, gives today's pupils the same kind of practical starting point. For headteachers across Fife, it is a direct way to connect that history to the careers pupils could choose next.
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