On a full STEAM Co. Day the children get to choose from up to 20 activities like coding, the science of music, spin painting, joining the global cardboard challenge or designing and creating dream roomsets in shoe boxes.

So far we've run 50 different activities in our own children's school's STEAM Co. Day and have packaged a few of them up in the STEAM Co. Drop Truck that you can use on a Pop-Up STEAM Co. Day to save you having to come up with all your own activities using existing ideas, talent and resources.

In overview there are a few types of STEAM Co. Day

  • 'Rocket Kids' STEAM Co. Sampler - the easiest one, where we turn up for half a day and give a 30 minute assembly inspired by Homer Hickam's Rocket Bosy book and film, fire a real rocket and then lead an air rocket making and firing activity for a group of children. We are also keen to include a meeting with staff, parents and your community to discuss running a STEAM Co. Day - £300
  • Mini STEAM Co. Day - we can bring the STEAM Co. Drop Truck along and offer around 4-6 activities (Rocket Science, newspaper engineering, Micro:bit Coding, Zoetropes and Little Inventors) for a smaller group of children and staff/carer helpers - £500-750 
  • Pop-up STEAM CO. Day - where we bring the STEAM Co. Drop Truck along and provide everything you need to run a  STEAM Co. Day - just and children and carers - £750 - 1,000
  • Full STEAM Co. Day - where you use our guide and branding and our range of downloadable activity materials together with your own activities using existing ideas, talent and resources from your community - requires £250 STEAM Co. School membership.
  • Your STEAM Co. Day - where you use our guide and branding and your own activities using existing ideas, talent and resources from your community - no donation required but we'd hope you'd consider a £250 STEAM Co. School membership donation.

All the above prices are recommended donations as we are a non-profit Community Interest Company,

All these activities are run by a combination of outside creatives, carers, companies and teachers that you would recruit, but we can hep connect you with some people and organisations who provide vetted and trained STEM/STEAM volunteers, many free of charge.

But they are all artists. We are all artists.

films of typical STEAM Co. Days:

'Rocket Kids' : a half day session of aspiration, invention and collaboration to give primary and secondary schools a taste of STEAM Co. in their school - perfect for KS2/3, year 7 transition and staff CPD as well as schools who want to know more about STEAM Co.

NortherN SaiNts SUNDERLAND

Four 'Rocket Kids' STEAM Co Samplers - stage show and air rocket making/firing activity in Primary schools across Sunderland and a Community Briefing meeting.

A film commissioned by Westminster, Kensington and Hammersmith council education team for their Primary Conference 16 November 2016

KENMONT PRIMARY

A Pop-Up STEAM Co. Day in a typical inner city primary in London, commissioned by Westminster, Kensington and Hammersmith council for a schools conference.

An amazing headteacher describes the first STEAM Co. Day to be held by the parents, teachers, artists and local businesses in the community of St Helen's College in Hillingdon, London on 18th November 2016

ST HELEN'S COLLEGE

A Pop-Up STEAM Co. Day in an independent prep school that saw fantastic collaboration across the school staff and Sinclair C5 electric cars.

A short video where Nick Corston, Co-founder of STEAM Co. goes back to help run a STEAM CO. Day at Ludlow Junior School, which he attended the yer it was opened in 1972. It was a very special day, with Nick's mu and dad in the front row for a very special assembly where Nick told how his dad had come across 'Rocket Boys' by Homer Hickam.

Ludlow Junior School

When STEAM Co. Co-founder Nick Corston went back to help on a day at his own school in Shropshire with a help of a few other Shropshire lads.

A look at how a STEAM Co. Day powered the community of a typical primary school in central London to inspire their children with creativity across the STEAM Skills of Science, Technology, Engineering, the ARTS and Maths.

St Saviour's, Paddington

Where STEAM Co. started 6 years ago. See how joining the global cardboard challenge inspired by Caine's Arcade saw them appear on BBC Breakfast television.

What happens when a community decide to run a STEAM CO. Day. This film shows the Pop-Up STEAM Co. Day that the Spinney School in Cambridge ran with inspiration and resources from the STEAM Co. mother ship! It was part of a family fun day they ran on a Saturday with The Big Draw and The Family Learning Festival.

The Spinney, CAMBRIDGE

How this Cambridge primary school ran a STEAM Co. Day for its community one Saturday where a grandad and grand daughter ran a coding activity.

ALL SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

A STEAM Co. Day starts with a special assembly, maybe with a few special guests or the STEAM Co. 'Rocket Kids' or 'STEAM Inventors' talks.

Integrating back to the curriculum, it gives the children an overview of what to expect .

PASSPORT

At the end of the assembly, the children may all given a passport telling them where the activities are. This passport is created from artwork that STEAM Co. can supply.

The rest of the day is down to you... 

Bunting

A lovely addition to y our STEAM Co. Day might be getting every child to make a pennant to go into a string of bunting that can be literally wrapped around the school on the big day.

Ideally this would just be an old tea towel or shirt material.

Again we can provide artwork and a send home letter for this. This is a lovely way of engaging home creativity but we are mindful if may be perceived as an additional burden on parents and lead to competitive pressures. It is not a competition.  

Some schools send home a donation envelope with the template to solicit voluntary donations towards the cost of staging the STEAM Co. Day.

Sign up here for info or to run your own STEAM Co. Day and we'll tell you how.