STEMNET

About the Organisation

STEMNET aims to ensure that more young people in the UK make a choice to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related careers at all levels, and future generations are properly informed about the science and technology that surrounds them.

With the support of its partners, STEMNET achieves this in two ways:

• By bringing science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities, experiences and excitement  in to classrooms throughout the UK, enhancing and enriching the national STEM curriculum. 
• By linking those companies and other organisations that employ STEM educated people, and schools, in such a way that young people can get a clear idea of the diverse and exciting range of careers available to them.

STEMNET has received funding from the Department of Trade and Industry since 1996 and now continues to enjoy support from the DIUS (Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills) and DCSF (Department of Children, Schools and Families) since then.  As a national organisation, it works hard to ensure that no region of the country is disadvantaged, by comparison with any other, with respect to STEM opportunities. 

LEP Involvement

STEMNET has two dedicated fieldworkers who work on the LEP. They deliver in-school STEM days to all the primary schools involved with the LEP. Pupils are first introduced to engineering and what engineers do through a discussion about the various fields of engineering, and how engineers shape both our lives and the world we live in with their innovations.