Outreach activities

Many of our kits and construction materials are suitable for outreach projects at all levels of education

We can provide bespoke kits for masterclasses, school visits, lectures, open days, STEM activities and extension work - however large or small your requirements.

Recent projects include:

Maths meets art in Devon

More than 15000 straws and joiners were used in this large scale primary maths project organised by the Devon Learning and Development Partnership.

"The maths and art side fitted into the curriculum well, but also the children have had to work collaboratively in teams and solve problems together which are really important life skills.”
- Head of Key Stage 2 Two Moors Primary School

Comments from Two Moors pupils (Years 5 and 6)

"I made a sculpture which combined squares and triangles and involved me decreasing the straws by 10% as it grew taller."

"We’ve learnt a lot about percentages and how structures are made."

A taste of university life at Bangor

“We ordered some molecule kits from Cochranes to support our schools outreach programme. The pupils who attended were all given an aspirin molecule kit to take away with them and were all thrilled to receive a resource which is not available to them at school. We now use Cochranes kits for most of our outreach events and also in some of our first year undergraduate teaching.”
- Stevie Scalan, Bangor University School of Chemistry - Pharmaceutical outreach event

Some other outreach initiatives where we have recently spotted our models...

Crystal structure lectures by the Institute of Materials
Nobel prize winning graphene at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition
3.5m of DNA as part of the International Year of Chemistry
C60-70 Fullerene workshops at Trinity College Dublin