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STEM Clubs Technicians
Take part in the exciting free STEM enrichment programme that provides schools with six practical and fun activities linked to technical roles. Schools choose how to deliver them: enrichment sessions, curricular lesson or a STEM club. The programme supports school careers plans, has webinar led training and a bursary of between £250 and £450 per school (depending upon number of students). Registration closes 30 November with activity delivery ending in July 2026. The programme is open to maintained secondary schools, sixth form and FE colleges.
This engaging programme highlights technical roles that don’t require university degrees and opens student minds to careers they may never have considered. Developing skill sets, knowledge and applying real world context to STEM. Register now at: STEM Clubs Technicians. |
Join in with Get with the Program's 'Reach for the Sky
Join in with Get with the Program's 'Reach for the Sky initiative, funded by
the Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority.
Do you know a school or youth group that would like a FREE Moon Landing Coding Adventure thanks to our wonderful sponsors? This exciting, engaging adventure teaches 5-8 year-olds coding concepts whilst they learn all about the first moon landing in an exciting, engaging adventure!
Anyone can nominate a UK school or youth group using our form below, or you can register your interest as a volunteer. Volunteers get to give back, have a fantastic day helping with one of our coding adventures, and feel great knowing that they're helping to inspire the tech innovators of the future!
Schools and youth groups will get free access to our fantastic online show and follow-up activities, plus some great additional resources. But you'll need to be quick - spaces are limited to 250 schools or clubs so act fast! Find out more in our FAQs below or feel free to get in touch!
Gopher Science Laboratory
The Royal Society of Biology would like to offer your school a grant of £600 to run a Gopher Science Lab day using our Gopher Science Lab hands-on science activities. (Gopher Science Labs is the second activity listed on our activities page and alongside our online training course together provides all the information you need to run a lab day.)
To accept this grant funding. Please reply to amanda.hardy@rsb.org.uk
· You and another science staff colleague will sign up to learn about our Gopher Science Lab hands-on science activities using our online course. You will be granted pre-paid access if you accept this grant offer. This is a saving of up to £90 plus VAT.
· You will recruit at least 32 of your school’s students to take part in your lab day.
· You agree to teach your selected students how to deliver our Gopher Science Lab activities to younger children, in advance of your lab day event.
· You will invite and host at least 60 primary school children and their teachers from 1-3 primary schools to take part in your Gopher Science Lab day(s).
· You will use the grant funding offered to buy all the kit, resources needed and expenses incurred in running your lab day.
· Your will keep a record of receipts and expenditure and report on these after your lab day(s) have taken place.
· Your school’s students will (with your help and support) deliver the Gopher Science Labs hands-on science activities at your lab day to the invited primary school children. In small groups or pairs, each to be taught by one or two of your students on one activity at a time.
· Your school’s pre-trained students will teach the guest primary aged children about no fewer than three of the Gopher Science Lab activities. You may select which activities to use from the ten available in teacher booklet one. You may run more than three activities if you wish.
· Activities will be taught by your pre-trained students to guest pupils sequentially or in a circus of activities arranged around your school’s labs or school hall (as appropriate).
· You will organise and run a one hour online or in person teacher training CPD event with local primary school teachers. To explain how your students used or will use the Gopher Science Lab activities to train younger children via peer-to-peer teaching and learning. And encourage them to try teaching some simple science activities via peer-to-peer teaching and learning in their own schools.
· Your pre- or post-lab day CPD session can be run in advance of the lab day to tell invited primary teachers what to expect on the day. Or after the lab day to share experience gained and spread good practice you and your students have learned.
Cardiff Scientific Society - Science Competition
We’re celebrating the Cardiff Scientific Society’s centenary by inviting students across Wales to create a science poster on the theme “Science for the Future.” Entries welcome in Welsh or English. Closing date 18 March 2026
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The Big Bang Competition
About The Competition
Inspire students to bring their ideas to life with The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition. Got a class who love solving problems? Enter a STEM project with your students. The Competition rewards and recognises young people’s bright ideas. From climate change to robots to life-saving healthcare, The Big Bang Competition celebrates projects of all shapes and sizes.
Free to enter for students aged 11 to 18 in state-funded secondary schools, The Big Bang Competition supports young people to ask questions, challenge facts and invent solutions. Entries are open! Enter by 4 March 2026.
More information here