What is the Connecting STEM Teachers programme?
Connecting STEM Teachers (CST) is a national programme which supports teachers and school coordinators of STEM subjects - science, design/technology, engineering, maths, and computing. We do this by helping teachers to engage a greater number and wider spectrum of school pupils with STEM education and careers awareness.
Through local regional networks, CST aims to build the knowledge and confidence needed to provide pupils with hands-on cross-curricular activity and thought provoking real-world engineering projects.
The programme creates an estimated 150,000 STEM experiences for pupils in approximately 900 school every year. 1,900 STEM resource boxes were sent out to schools last year.

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What does CST aim to do?
The programme is designed to help address the UK's shortage of engineers and technicians whose skills are needed for the future. To increase the pipeline, CST's aims are to:
- improve perceptions of engineering amongst young people through teacher advocacy,
- apply engineering in context of specific STEM subject ares in schools,
- engage with schools in areas where the social and economic status is low and increase the appeal of engineering careers amongst underserved and underrepresented groups of pupils,
- connect networks to enhance the provision of STEM learning in schools,
- improve student progression to STEM subjects post-16.