🤖 Robotics & Making
Build a moving cardboard robot, a simple robotic car or a bristlebot. Discover how mechanisms and circuits work.
Discover what's possible
More than a workshop.
From cardboard robots and moving machines to digital storytelling and product prototypes, there's something to spark curiosity at every age.
🧊 3D Printing
See ideas become objects. Explore 3D design, printing and prototyping with real equipment.
✏️ Product Design
Spot a problem, sketch a solution and create a prototype — from a phone cable accessory to a useful everyday product.
🎬 Filming & Digital Effects
Plan a story and write a script using ChatGPT, film on a phone or camera, then edit in CapCut with sound, captions and digital effects.
🤝 Working with Industry
Explore how real products are developed, with opportunities for industry-inspired design challenges.
⚡ Creative Challenges
Make things light up, spin and move. Experiment, test, improve — and have fun along the way.
Creative confidence
Who Am I? — Hologram Showcase
Discover your story. Create it digitally. Showcase it as a hologram.
Through Who Am I?, young people and older adults explore identity, confidence and creative storytelling. Activities include sharing stories, making art, filming and editing video, and presenting digital work using a hologram fan.
From an idea to a real product
Imagine. Design. Prototype.
What would you improve? A tangled phone lead? A small everyday problem? Young people can explore the design process — research, sketch, test, make and present their ideas.
We are exploring opportunities for makerspace activities and industry-linked challenges, connecting creative thinking with the world of work.
Industry-linked challenges are being developed; they are not advertised here as confirmed partnerships.
Learning has no age limit
STEAM for all generations
Children, teenagers, adults and older people can all enjoy the experience of making, exploring and learning something new.
Young peopleConfidence, creativity and practical skills.
AdultsTry new ideas and discover new abilities.
Older generationsMake, share, connect and have fun.
A glimpse of what we make
Small projects. Big discoveries.
Build something that moves
From simple walking figures to motor-powered cars, the fun is in experimenting and seeing what happens.
Try a hands-on challenge
Test your idea, change it and try again. Every attempt teaches you something new.
Real experiences · Real feedback
What participants told us
Short extracts from feedback collected after NextGenSTEAM activities. Shared without participants’ names.
Who Am I? · Young people
“Being able to share my story and meet lovely people.”
Participant feedback
Who Am I? · Older adults
“I was not hopeful at all but SK talked us through every process and made it clear to understand.”
Participant feedback
Who Am I? · Digital skills
“Using my phone for other uses (camera-photos-videos).”
Participant feedback
Resin jewellery · Older adults
“I even made items using resin at home with my grandchildren”
Participant feedback
Your community. Your ideas.
What would you like to see at NextGenSTEAM?
We want our activities to reflect what people in South Bank, Redcar and the surrounding area actually want to learn and try.
Whether you're a young person, parent, teacher, adult or older resident, tell us what interests you. Your answers can help shape future workshops and programmes.
Have an idea we haven't mentioned? Tell us. We want to keep listening, not just ask once.
Join the next generation of makers
Let's create something together.
Interested in workshops, community activities, schools or future industry challenges?
Our community base: Golden Boy Green Community Centre, South Bank, Middlesbrough.
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