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STEM Workshops in Hinckley
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 Hinckley
Hands-on STEM workshops for schools across Hinckley, Burbage, Barwell and Earl Shilton. Robotics, drones, AI, coding and electricity days delivered in your own hall, with all equipment provided and DBS-checked instructors based just up the A5.
Our instructor is based in Nuneaton, around 15 minutes up the A5, so Hinckley schools benefit from local availability, flexible scheduling, and our most competitive pricing band.
Pricing for Hinckley
Workshop Prices for Your Area
All prices are per day, excluding VAT. Based on your school being in the Leicestershire 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 Hinckley
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 Hinckley
A selection of schools across Leicestershire and beyond that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops.
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What Schools in Hinckley Say
Direct feedback from teachers and schools who have hosted our workshops.
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STEM in Hinckley: Why It Matters for Your Students
A History of Innovation
Hinckley's engineering story starts with a single machine. In 1640 William Iliffe set up a stocking frame in the town, reputedly paying £60 for it, making Hinckley one of the earliest framework-knitting centres in England. Hosiery dominated the town for three centuries, and you can still stand in front of a Georgian-era knitting frame at Hinckley & District Museum, housed in seventeenth-century framework knitters' cottages on Lower Bond Street. The borough's heritage even carries a scientific twist: the true site of the Battle of Bosworth was pinpointed only in 2009, when a systematic metal-detecting survey near Fenn Lane turned up lead cannon shot and a silver-gilt boar badge.
Inspiring STEM Role Models
Joseph Hansom gives Hinckley a genuine claim in transport history. Working in the town as an architect, he developed and tested his Patent Safety Cab here, registering the design in December 1834; the first Hansom cab ran along Hinckley's Coventry Road in 1835, and the low-slung, stable design became a fixture of Victorian streets from London to New York. More recently, builder John Bloor bought the Triumph name after the original company collapsed in 1983, funded a brand-new factory in Hinckley in 1988 and launched the first Hinckley-built Triumphs in 1991, reviving one of Britain's most famous engineering marques on the town's doorstep.
Hinckley’s STEM Economy Today
Today Hinckley is best known as the global headquarters of Triumph Motorcycles, which has built bikes in the town since 1991 and passed its millionth Hinckley-made machine in 2021; its Factory Visitor Experience on Normandy Way opened in 2017 and runs behind-the-scenes factory tours. Logistics is the other giant: DPD's £150m Hinckley Park hub, among the largest fully automated parcel hubs in Europe, can sort 72,000 parcels an hour, joining the firm's earlier sites at Sketchley. Family-run Paynes Garages has traded since 1907, Caterpillar assembles construction machines at nearby Desford, and the HORIBA MIRA vehicle-testing campus sits on the borough's edge along the A5.
STEM Career Pathways for Young People
Local routes into STEM are unusually visible here. North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College opened its Hinckley campus on Lower Bond Street in 2011 and runs its Harrowbrook Construction Centre in the town, with creative and digital courses in Hinckley and its engineering programmes taught at the Nuneaton campus and the MIRA Technology Institute nearby. Caterpillar's Desford plant employs well over a thousand people, including apprentices, building backhoe loaders and telehandlers. DPD's Hinckley Park hub was planned to bring up to 750 jobs, and Triumph's headquarters brings design, manufacturing and test careers to the town itself. For pupils in Hinckley schools, the journey from classroom project to skilled local employment is short and easy to picture.
Investing in STEM Education in Hinckley
Hinckley has earned its living by making things for nearly four centuries, from stocking frames to Street Triples, yet few pupils ever see inside the factories around them. A hands-on workshop day brings that world into your school hall. Building and programming a robot rehearses the automation thinking behind Triumph's production line and DPD's parcel conveyors; a drones day echoes the test-and-refine culture on the borough's doorstep; AI and coding sessions open the digital careers growing alongside the traditional ones. We travel from Nuneaton, fifteen minutes up the A5, bringing every piece of equipment. For a headteacher, one booked day turns Hinckley's engineering story into first-hand experience your pupils will remember.
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