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Partners
Hands-on engineering delivered in your building, by instructors working from a written curriculum with defined learning objectives. For schools, the City, libraries, and community organisations in and around Airdrie.
Most STEM enrichment asks you to send families somewhere else, which quietly filters for the families who can afford to go. Delivering in your building reaches the whole class.
3D printers, electronics kits, and hand tools are expensive to buy and awkward to maintain for a few weeks of use a year. We bring ours.
Every session runs from a module with stated learning objectives and a finished project. You can put it in a plan and defend it to a parent.
Attendance and per-student progress come back to you in a form that works in a school report or a funding return.
Three age-banded tracks, 24 written modules, ages 8 to 15.
| Track | Ages | Length | Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Makers | 8 to 10 | 12 modules | Bridges, marble runs, simple machines, circuits, eco design, and a showcase build. First real tools, closely supervised. |
| Maker Engineers | 11 to 12 | 6 modules | Engineering design foundations, CAD and 3D printing, structures and mechanisms, electronics, Arduino, and robotics. |
| Engineering Studio | 13 to 15 | 6 modules | Laser-cut product studio, Raspberry Pi, digital fabrication, product design to pitch, a community engineering challenge, and a capstone. |
Supervision ratios appropriate to the tools being used.
Filament, components, fixings, and project materials for every student.
Printers and hand tools travel to your space where the activity allows it.
Each module has defined learning objectives, a session plan, and a finished-project outcome.
Shared back to you in a form you can put in a report.
We quote per cohort rather than publishing a rate card, because group size, travel, and which module you choose all move the number. What we will tell you up front is our arithmetic.
A four-week cohort of twelve students costs us roughly $1,580 to deliver — about $132 a student. Partner delivery is priced at cost recovery plus a contribution that funds Open Bench places for children whose families cannot pay anything. Buying a cohort from us puts another child on the bench.
If budget is the obstacle, say so early. We would rather find grant funding alongside you than lose the students.
You cannot hand us your students on trust alone. Here is exactly where each requirement stands.
For every instructor and volunteer working with students. Complete before any delivery begins.
Two-adult rule, no unsupervised one-to-one contact, disclosure and reporting procedures, photography consent.
Certificate available on request once coverage is bound.
Age-banded tool authorisation, protective equipment, and incident reporting for printers, soldering, and cutting tools.
Airdrie Maker Lab has not yet delivered its first cohort. Items marked “Not yet” above will be complete before any delivery to your students, and we will send you the documents rather than wait to be asked.
If you need something in place by a particular date, tell us the date and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
Year group, how many, what you are trying to achieve, and when. We will come back with a plan and a number.