Warwickshire · UK-Wide Delivery
STEM Workshops in Rugby
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 Rugby
STEM workshops for schools across Rugby, from Bilton and Hillmorton to Houlton and Dunchurch. Robotics, drones, AI, coding and electricity days delivered in your own school hall, with all equipment provided and DBS-checked instructors.
Our instructor is based in Nuneaton, around 25 minutes away, so Rugby schools benefit from local availability, flexible scheduling, and our most competitive pricing band.
Pricing for Rugby
Workshop Prices for Your Area
All prices are per day, excluding VAT. Based on your school being in the Warwickshire 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 Rugby
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 Rugby
A selection of schools across Warwickshire and beyond that have hosted our hands-on STEM workshops.
STEM in Rugby: Why It Matters for Your Students
A History of Innovation
Rugby gave the world a game, but its engineering story runs deeper. On 12 April 1937, at the British Thomson-Houston works in the town, Sir Frank Whittle ran the Power Jets WU, the first turbojet engine ever built and run, a test that opened the jet age. A decade earlier, Rugby Radio Station had opened in 1926 on the town's eastern edge; by the 1950s it was the largest radio transmitting station in the world, and its 250-metre masts stood as local landmarks until demolition between 2004 and 2007. Cement has been made in Rugby since the nineteenth century, another strand of industry that still shapes the town.
Inspiring STEM Role Models
Sir Frank Whittle is Rugby's engineering giant. A Coventry-born RAF officer, he patented the turbojet in 1930 and, working with the British Thomson-Houston company, brought it to that first shrieking test run in Rugby in 1937, the breakthrough behind Britain's first jet aircraft. Lewis Carroll, then plain Charles Dodgson, was a pupil at Rugby School from 1846 to 1849; his mathematics master said he had not taught a more promising boy of his age, and Dodgson went on to first-class honours in mathematics at Oxford and a mathematical lectureship at Christ Church he held for 26 years, writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland along the way.
Rugby’s STEM Economy Today
Engineering never left the town. GE Vernova's Power Conversion business operates from Thomson Houston Way, on the former British Thomson-Houston site where Whittle ran his engine, designing and building large rotating electrical machines and power systems for naval, offshore and industrial customers. On Lawford Road, Cemex's Rugby cement plant runs the largest cement kiln in the UK, with capacity of around 1.8 million tonnes a year. To the east, the former radio station site has become Houlton, a new district planned for more than 6,000 homes, where Houlton School teaches 1,200 pupils inside the restored Grade II listed transmitter building. STEM employers here are visible from the school gate.
STEM Career Pathways for Young People
For pupils in Rugby, the route from classroom to career is unusually visible. GE Vernova employs engineers and technicians at its Rugby site, and has supported the STEM Returners programme to bring experienced people back into engineering. Cemex is investing in its Rugby plant to cut carbon from cement making, work that calls for process engineers, chemists, data analysts and environmental specialists. The growing Houlton district is generating construction and infrastructure roles on the town's doorstep. Add the wider West Midlands manufacturing economy within commuting distance, and a Rugby child who leaves school confident with robotics, code and data has genuine local options.
Investing in STEM Education in Rugby
Whittle's first engine did not run in a lecture theatre; it ran, shrieking and glowing, on a factory floor in Rugby, because someone gave a determined young engineer room to build and test. That is exactly what a hands-on workshop day gives your pupils: real robots to programme, drones to fly, AI models to train and code that does something, all in your own school hall with every piece of equipment brought to you. Children in Rugby walk past the evidence of what engineers do every day; a workshop day lets them feel like one. For a headteacher, it is a single, simple booking that turns the town's proudest story into your pupils' ambition.
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