Digital Future Days: STEAM

Digital Future Days: STEAM is coming to The National Museum of Computing on Wednesday 18 November, a full day of workshops and tours for KS3 and KS4 students. It's part of a series of educational events designed to bring textbook theory to life in a setting that actually changed the world, and this one pulls from the museum's science and computing heritage.

The morning kicks off with a Heritage Quiz, and from there it's a mix of cyber safety and hands-on engineering. Cyber Champions is run by National Cyber Awards finalists, so that's the cyber safety side of things. The engineering comes in two parts: Digital Aerospace Academy, where you build and fly rockets and planes, and DIY Flight Club, which is all about paper aircraft. There's also a museum tour that includes retro games, so you'll get to see the collection as well as do the activities.

That collection is a big part of the day. The museum is housed at Bletchley Park and holds the world's largest collection of fully working historic computing machines, so you're working in the same place where some of the most famous computers in history still run. The sessions are built around that, with the cyber safety and the aircraft building drawing on the site's computing and science legacy.

It runs from 09:45 to 14:30 at The National Museum of Computing, Block H, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Milton Keynes MK3 6DS (MK3 6EB). Tickets are available through Eventbrite.