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STEM Workshops in Hastings & Bexhill
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 Hastings & Bexhill
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to primary and secondary schools across Hastings, St Leonards-on-Sea and Bexhill-on-Sea, from robotics and drones to AI and cybersecurity, in the town where John Logie Baird carried out his first television experiments.
Our East Sussex instructor is based in Polegate, roughly half an hour from Bexhill and forty minutes from Hastings, so coastal schools benefit from local availability, flexible scheduling, and our most competitive pricing band.
Pricing for Hastings & Bexhill
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 Hastings & Bexhill
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 Hastings & Bexhill
A selection of schools across East Sussex and beyond that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops.
School Feedback
What Schools in Hastings & Bexhill Say
Direct feedback from teachers and schools who have hosted our workshops.
Eye-opening, I didn't think we would be able to use technology like this until secondary school." "I really enjoyed the whole experience the drones were really cool and our session flew by - I wish...
STEM in Hastings & Bexhill: Why It Matters for Your Students
A History of Innovation
Hastings hosted a defining experiment in modern technology. John Logie Baird moved to the town in 1923 and, in a workshop above a shop in Queen's Arcade, built his first television apparatus from a hatbox, darning needles and bicycle lamp lenses. By February 1924 he had transmitted moving silhouette images there, two years before his celebrated London demonstration, and a plaque unveiled in 1929, with Baird there in person, marks the spot. Along the coast, Bexhill staged Britain's first motor races on De La Warr Parade in May 1902, and its 1935 De La Warr Pavilion was the first public building in Britain built on a welded steel frame.
Inspiring STEM Role Models
John Logie Baird is the headline name, but Hastings has a remarkable record in medicine too. Sophia Jex-Blake, born in the town in 1840, led the Edinburgh Seven, the first women to matriculate at a British university, and later founded the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women in 1886. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman on the UK Medical Register, made her final home at Rock House off Exmouth Place, living in Hastings from 1879 until her death in 1910. Two pioneers who opened medicine to women, and the man who gave the world television, all have their stories rooted in one small stretch of Sussex coast.
Hastings & Bexhill’s STEM Economy Today
Today's Hastings is more of an engineering town than many visitors realise. General Dynamics UK has built avionics here since 1974, and its Mission Systems teams now work across two Hastings sites, manufacturing and testing electronics for aircraft including the Eurofighter Typhoon, Hawk trainer and Wildcat helicopter. In St Leonards, Photek employs more than 60 people making image intensifiers and photon detectors for space science, with its technology flying on India's AstroSat observatory, launched in 2015, and ESA's SMILE mission. In the town centre, the restored 1924 Observer Building hosts the OBX creative technology hub and affordable workspace, part of Hastings Commons' wider regeneration of the town centre's growing digital quarter.
STEM Career Pathways for Young People
Local routes into STEM are stronger than the area's reputation sometimes suggests. East Sussex College's Hastings campuses, including Station Plaza beside the railway station, offer A Levels, vocational courses and T Levels in areas such as digital support. Bexhill College, rated Outstanding by Ofsted, opened a dedicated STEM building including engineering facilities in January 2021. Employers recruit locally too: General Dynamics runs apprenticeship schemes at its Hastings site for school leavers with five GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including English and maths, and Photek offers specialist engineering careers in St Leonards. Hastings was also a DfE Opportunity Area from 2017 to 2022, bringing targeted investment into literacy, maths and broadening young people's horizons.
Investing in STEM Education in Hastings & Bexhill
The gap between Hastings' past and its possibilities is exactly why STEM enrichment matters here. A century after Baird proved television possible above a shop in Queen's Arcade, local employers such as General Dynamics and Photek are still building avionics for front-line aircraft and detectors that fly on space missions, yet many pupils never discover that these careers exist within sight of their classrooms. A hands-on workshop day changes that: children who program a robot, fly a drone or train an AI model start to see themselves as the engineers and scientists their town already employs. For schools across Hastings, St Leonards, Bexhill, Battle and Rye, that shift in aspiration is the whole point of a workshop day.
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