Printellect Labs brings a full STEM experience into your school. In a single day, pupils design something on screen, code and build, and watch a 3D printer turn their idea into something real to take home. It is curriculum-linked, careers-aware, and needs no kit or prep from you. We bring everything and run it on-site, anywhere in the UK.
This is real, hands-on STEM, not a talk or a demo. Every pupil designs their own model, sees how a design becomes a set of instructions a machine can follow, and takes home something they made. Depending on the group we add coding and simple electronics with Arduino, so pupils meet several strands of STEM in one visit. Everything is pitched to be inclusive, so pupils of every starting point and ability finish with something to be proud of.
Model an idea, slice it, and watch a 3D printer build it.
A first go at Arduino, electronics and simple programming.
Everyone leaves with something they designed themselves.
We build every session to support the national curriculum, so an enrichment day also moves your schemes of work forward. Here is where it connects.
Pupils work through a genuine design process: generating and developing ideas against design criteria, then making with computer-aided manufacture. The Key Stage 3 D&T programme of study explicitly requires computer-aided manufacture, which is exactly what 3D printing is, and computer-aided design is named from Key Stage 2. It is the clearest curriculum fit we have.
Turning a design into a working model, and coding with Arduino, brings computational thinking to life. It supports the programming strands, from designing, writing and debugging programs in primary through to using a text-based language and understanding the hardware and software that make up computer systems at Key Stage 3.
Pupils work scientifically, making a prediction, changing one setting and comparing the result. Our electronics builds link to the electricity topics, from constructing a simple series circuit at Key Stage 2 to current, voltage and resistance at Key Stage 3.
We run right across the UK and frame the same session to your curriculum: the Technologies and Sciences areas of Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland, the Science and Technology area in the Curriculum for Wales, and Technology and Design in Northern Ireland.
Meeting people who design, code and engineer for a living, and having a proper go themselves, is exactly the kind of experience that can nudge a young person towards a STEM subject or career later. Our facilitators are working STEM professionals, so a visit helps your school evidence Gatsby Benchmark 4, linking curriculum learning to careers, and contributes to Benchmark 5, encounters with employers and employees. On request we point pupils towards the study and apprenticeship routes into engineering and computing.
A strong fit for a careers day, National Careers Week, or British Science Week.
We arrive with the printers, laptops, tools and materials, set up, run the day and clear away. You need no equipment, no prior knowledge and no prep. We can run a single class, a year-group carousel, an off-timetable enrichment day, a lunchtime or after-school STEM club, or a headline event for British Science Week or a careers day.
Simpler guided designs, plenty of wonder at the machine, and a gentle first look at how the technology works. A memorable enrichment day that supports D&T, computing and science.
A deeper design challenge, more independent modelling, coding and troubleshooting, with a clear line into D&T, computing and STEM careers.
Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 4. We set the level to match your pupils.
Yes. We map to Design and Technology, Computing and Science, and to the equivalent areas in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
No. We bring everything and only need space and power.
From a single class to a full-day carousel across a year group. Tell us your numbers and we will suggest a format.
Yes. It is a strong fit for both, and helps evidence your careers provision.
Yes, and we provide a risk assessment for your records.
Tell us your key stage, group size and the dates you have in mind, and we will suggest a format and a price.
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