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.
Built into schools, colleges and universities.
Whether you want to build a bike, run a programme, or back the mission — there's a door for you.
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 OCN-accredited like the rest. 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.
Acoustic Engineering & Sustainable Product Design
A working bamboo speaker, built by hand — design the chamber, test the sound, learn the physics. A complete STEM project in 2–3 hours, curriculum-mapped and OCN-accredited. Ages 11–16, KS3–KS4. The taster: run it, then decide the rest.
Sustainable Product Engineering
The first frame your students build — a bamboo balance bike. Their entry into structural design and precision fabrication, where a finished object has to hold real weight. The natural next step once the Speaker has hooked them.
Sustainable Bicycle Technical Development
Students design, build and ride a real bamboo gravel frame — drawings, jig setup, mitring, structural bonding and quality checks, as a frame is made in industry. Multi-session, ages 14–18, KS4 / post-16.
Additive Manufacturing & Adaptive Design
Students design and 3D-print the frame lugs themselves — parametric, adaptive design taken from screen to part. Ages 14–19, post-16. Where digital design meets real fabrication.
Electric Mobility Engineering & Green Technology
Students wire and integrate the electronics that drive an electric bike — circuits, power and systems thinking, applied to clean transport. KS4 to post-16.
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.
UniversityA three-year Masters research partnership with UCL Mechanical Engineering (2016–18) — from a 150kg cargo bike to a UK-compliant electric build.
Schools · STEMIn-school workshops that teach STEM by building a real bamboo frame by hand.
SchoolThere is not another school in the UK with this as an option for its students or the public.
Nick Mills — Head of Design Technology, The Oratory School
A permanent in-school bamboo-bike workshop, built into the school's D&T curriculum since 2020.
UniversityA hands-on bamboo-frame workshop for King's College London teaching staff, who built as learners before weighing it for the curriculum.
UniversityBBC led the hands-on workshop at Coventry University's UK Bamboo Summit 2024 — the first national gathering of bamboo academics and engineers.
Schools eventBradfield College has agreed to host an end-of-year schools gravel race — student teams design and build two custom bamboo gravel bikes with CAD.
CollegeA March 2025 cross-sector bamboo workshop at Stoke-on-Trent College, seating FE students alongside a local artist to build together.
SchoolA multi-session programme at Reed's School, Surrey (2019) — students built four bamboo bicycles and raced them at the end of term.
SchoolSix students at Southbank UTC each built their own bamboo bike — six bikes in a single programme.
SchoolA school project in The Hague — seven bamboo bikes built together in one classroom.
SchoolA school in Regina, Canada, supported remotely to run its own bamboo-bike build.
UniversityThe University of Texas at San Antonio launched its own student Bamboo Bicycle Club chapter.
InternationalA sustainable-mobility partnership with Urumuri in Rwanda — bamboo building for local skills and transport.
Recognised skills, real qualifications.
Whether you want to build a bike, run a programme, or back the mission — there's a door for you.
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.