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STEM Workshops in Loughborough
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STEM Workshops Across the Loughborough Travel Catchment
Hyett Education delivers hands-on STEM workshops to schools in Loughborough and across Leicestershire. 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 Loughborough
Workshop Prices for Your Area
Published day rates for the Loughborough catchment run from £597 to £697 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 Loughborough 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 Loughborough 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 Loughborough 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 Loughborough across Leicestershire; each card shows the school's recorded locality.
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What Schools Across the Loughborough Page Catchment Say
Direct feedback from schools that have hosted our workshops and are mapped to this page's travel catchment.
It is a really good day for our learners. We should definitely do some more of these.
Adam was great with the children and captivated them throughout their session.
STEM in Loughborough: Why It Matters for Your Students
What is Loughborough’s STEM heritage?
Loughborough has been shaped by two engineering trades. John Taylor & Co, whose Taylor family became involved in an older bellfounding business in 1784, opened a foundry in the town in 1839 and moved to its current Freehold Street site in 1859; in 1881 it cast Great Paul for St Paul's Cathedral, which the cathedral describes as the largest bell in the UK in current use, and today it describes itself as Britain's last bellfoundry. A woodyard on the Loughborough Navigation grew into the Falcon Works, home from 1889 to the Brush Electrical Engineering Company, which built dynamos, tramcars and locomotives. The inventor John Heathcoat moved to Loughborough before patenting his bobbin-net lace machine in 1809, only for former Luddites to destroy his 55 frames in 1816, after which he rebuilt the business in Tiverton, Devon.
Which STEM role models are linked to Loughborough?
Robert Bakewell (1725 to 1795) was born at Dishley Grange near Loughborough and pioneered selective livestock breeding for chosen traits. He developed Dishley Longhorn cattle and New (or Dishley) Leicester sheep, and Charles Darwin later cited his work in On the Origin of Species. John Heathcoat (1783 to 1861) patented his lace-making machine in 1809 and ran it from a Loughborough mill until former Luddites wrecked it in 1816; he rebuilt in Tiverton, Devon, where he continued manufacturing successfully.
What STEM industries are in Loughborough?
Loughborough University's Science and Enterprise Park is home to more than 90 organisations with a workforce of more than 2,500 people. On the former AstraZeneca site at Charnwood Campus, tenants include Almac Group, Kindeva Drug Delivery and Solventum, the healthcare spin-off from 3M, which chose the campus for its UK headquarters in 2024; the campus says it has safeguarded or created over 800 science jobs since it was formed in 2014. The historic Falcon Works, home to Brush's electrical engineering business since 1889, faced closure of its locomotive-building operation when owner Wabtec announced in April 2021 that the site was unsustainable, putting around 300 jobs at risk.
What STEM career opportunities are available for young people in Loughborough?
Loughborough College Group, which includes Loughborough College, Stephenson College and Brooksby College, teaches engineering from BTEC to HNC and BEng degree level and runs T Levels in maintenance, installation and repair for mechanical and electrical engineering, alongside an enhanced A Level in Space Engineering developed with the National Space Centre. Loughborough University's Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering offers undergraduate engineering degrees on campus.
Why is STEM education important in Loughborough?
Loughborough has long made things: lace on Heathcoat's machines, bells at Taylor's foundry, and electrical machinery at a woodyard that became the Falcon Works. That pattern continues on the university's Science and Enterprise Park and at Charnwood Campus, where life-sciences firms have taken over a former pharmaceutical site. Pupils walking past the bell foundry may never connect that history with the labs and offices on the Science and Enterprise Park, where more than 2,500 people now work. A hands-on workshop day, building robots, flying drones or training an AI model, draws the line between them. For headteachers across Loughborough and the surrounding villages, it turns local history into a visible, current career path.
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