A finished bamboo gravel bike, engineered and built by hand
Make Engineers · schools & colleges

try real engineering in your classroom this term — free.

Your students build a working bamboo speaker from scratch: a complete STEM project, mapped to the curriculum and to careers. No kit to fund, no risk to take.
Start the free Speaker build →Download the teacher pack (PDF)
As taught at

built into schools, colleges and universities.

UCLLondon South Bank UniversitySwansea University
King's College London
Oxford Brookes University
The University of Manchester
Coventry University
Bradfield College
The Oratory School
Reed's School
Stoke-on-Trent
5
engineering programmes
3 live · 2 coming
11–19
ages we teach
KS3 to post-16
Gatsby 4
benchmark we evidence
careers in the curriculum
1,500+
young people reached
Make Engineers delivery records
The pathway

start free. build up when your students ask for more.

The Speaker is the front door: a full STEM project at no cost, curriculum-mapped and built to the same accreditation standard (Level 1 OCN approval in progress). The Speaker is free; every other programme is paid — an investment in the skills, accreditation and career routes that follow, priced by quote. From there the ladder runs from a first frame to a rideable bamboo bicycle, the lugs students design and 3D-print, and electric mobility.

FoundationFree

acoustic engineering & sustainable product design

Ages 11–16 · KS3–KS4 · ~2–3 hrs · builds a working bamboo speaker

Frame IIn development

sustainable product engineering

Entry frame build (balance bike) · in development

Frame IIRequest a quote

sustainable bicycle technical development

Ages 14–18 · KS4 / post-16 · multi-session · builds a rideable bamboo gravel frame

AdditiveRequest a quote

additive manufacturing & adaptive design

Ages 14–19 / post-16 · design & 3D-print the lugs · parametric & adaptive design

SystemsIn development

electric mobility engineering & green technology

Electronics & e-mobility engineering · in development

You don't need to be an engineer

everything to run it is provided. you just bring the class.

Teachers run this whether or not they've ever held a saw. The build film, the session plan and the curriculum and careers map all come with it, so the free Speaker build is ready to teach — not a pile of resources you have to assemble first. If you'd rather not run it solo, a facilitator can co-deliver.

  • A chaptered build film you can play stage by stage on the board
  • Step-by-step plans written for a workshop, not a textbook
  • A curriculum and careers map — your Gatsby Benchmark 4 evidence, done
  • Enhanced-DBS facilitators who can co-deliver if you'd rather not run it solo
A bamboo frame on a build template, mid-build

Real making, real materials, a real qualification — handed to you ready to teach.

Make Engineers

Already in classrooms & lecture halls

schools, colleges and universities already build with us.

From a Year 9 STEM lesson to a Russell Group Masters brief — real institutions, real builds, written up on our blog. Read how it has worked elsewhere, then picture it in your setting.

See it first

watch the free speaker build, start to finish.

A complete STEM project on camera — so you can see exactly what your class would make before you ask for anything.

Bamboo Bicycle Club — schools Speaker build film
Money needn't be the blocker

most schools run the paid programmes fully funded.

The Speaker is free, so you can prove it works before you ask anyone for budget. When you're ready to go further, we help you find the funding — STEM grants, pupil premium, careers budgets and employer sponsorship routinely cover it. Tell us your setting in the same enquiry and we'll point you to the routes that fit.

Send us an enquiry →
Accredited & accountable

recognised skills, real qualifications.

Financial TimesThe GuardianInside Time
proposed Level 1 curriculum — Practical Manufacturing Skills (OCN approval in progress)Gatsby Benchmark 4Bamboo Mobility Project CICEnhanced-DBS facilitators · public-liability insured
Get in touch

start with the free build. see where it takes your class.

Tell us your key stage, your subject and roughly how many students. We'll send you the free Speaker project and talk through where it could lead — no obligation, no quote until you want one, and a real reply from a real person within two working days.

Start the free Speaker build →Send us an enquiry
In the classroom

watch students build from scratch

A complete STEM project — design, make, evaluate — that students take home and keep.