The BrickPi is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It is used to interface with Lego Mindstorms sensors and motors to create robots and other projects. This small collection includes practical tips to get started.

This activity pack provides a range of STEM based activities on the theme of 'connections' that can be used during British Science Week 2023 or at any other time. 

The activities included in the pack can be delivered as part of a community group setting.

They include:

• exploring how clean...

This poster introduces five young people involved in the design, assembly and sale of innovative folding bicycles. The poster illustrates how STEM subjects can open career choices and also the variety of skills needed in an innovative modern company.

The Brompton Bicycle was conceived as a product that increases people’s independence and freedom, and this concept remains the philosophy of the company - making bicycles that are reliable wherever and whenever they are used. Brompton Bicycle believe that this approach should inform the way we act, not just what we...

These video resources from Brompton Bicycle discuss how and why design and fabrication decisions are made, with footage of the assembly processes from the factory floor.  

Will Carleysmith, senior designer at Brompton Bicycle, describes how designers need an understanding of materials and manufacturing processes are essential in his role. He explains how mathematics and CAD are used in the design process, as well as...

This short film clip shows the different machines, work areas and production processes in the Brompton Bicycle factory.

This short clip shows the stages of folding a Brompton bicycle.

Produced by LSIS, this case study describes a project by FE Sussex. FE Sussex already has a well-established ethos of networks and collaboration as the limited company encompasses 12 colleges: five sixth form colleges, one land-based and six general FE colleges. However, by working with the LSIS STEM Programme, FE...

A case study from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) archives which looks at Birmingham Eastside, an exciting redevelopment that will create a new learning and technology quarter in the city. EPSRC-supported researchers at the University of Birmingham are helping make this project - and...

From the National Non-Food Crops Centre, this factsheet looks at the use of hemp-based products and hemp-lime technologies into mainstream building practice. It illustrates the use of a plant-derived material in the construction of buildings. Hemp construction uses renewable crop-based materials which have absorbed...

This resource forms part of the Clean Growth resources from the Grand Challenges resource collection.  The introductory video can be found here.

In this activity students will look at how buildings use energy and where they waste energy.  A survey is completed...