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Inspiring young people to take climate action through STEM
St Helens Chamber, in partnership with the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA), is dedicated to achieving an ambitious Net Zero target by 2040 through the #TogetherToZero campaign, an initiative focused on raising awareness, driving behavioural change, and building future green skills.
The programme aligns with the region’s local sustainability goals and aims to inspire local talent to engage with and explore more sustainable careers, highlighting local green job pathways while also igniting enthusiasm for STEM subjects among the younger generation.
Crucially, the programme works to ensure that the region’s journey to sustainability is supported by education that is practical, inclusive, and rooted in real-world challenges, empowering students to see themselves as a vital part of the climate solution.
In partnership with St Helens Chamber, Creative Hut delivered an immersive STEM experience, leveraging hands-on robotics, coding and problem-solving challenges to offer an engaging education programme that would translate regional climate ambitions into meaningful classroom experiences for both primary and secondary school pupils.
Making climate change relevant, engaging, and aspirational
The core challenge was to create a programme that could spark genuine interest in STEAM subjects while grounding learning in real-world environmental sustainability. It needed to engage learners with different styles and abilities, ensuring that the content felt accessible rather than overwhelming.
Most importantly, Creative Hut was challenged with designing a programme that would highlight emerging green careers within the local industrial sector, making this feel relevant and aspirational within a classroom environment.
Our experts understand that many students struggle with traditional, classroom-based learning. To bridge this gap, Creative Hut was challenged with devising a programme focused on hands-on, interactive learning that connects STEM skills directly to climate action.
The project needed to show students exactly how the skills they learn in the classroom could lead them to high-value local employment in the future, with STEM skills being central to unlocking these opportunities.
We all felt the project was a complete success, the students from both primary and secondary schools really enjoyed themselves. The trainers were inspiring and engaging and kept the students challenged throughout the session. Students who would not normally work together interacted with each other and had fun
— AnitaProject Professional
Creating immersive, hands-on STEM experiences aligned to Net Zero goals
Creative Hut designed and delivered nine immersive STEAM Experience Days across seven schools in the Liverpool City Region, engaging more than 1,000 students. Each day introduced pupils to the #TogetherToZero campaign before immersing them in themed, practical learning activities.
Using LEGO Education SPIKE Prime, students worked in teams to design, build, and code robotic solutions to Net Zero-inspired challenges, such as collecting hydrogen fuel cells and transporting them back to a central depot.
Alongside robotics, students also explored forces and motion by engineering LEGO vehicles and programmed Sphero robots to navigate complex mazes. These sessions concluded with an "Innovation Briefing," where pupils were encouraged to reflect on what they had learnt and apply this to real-world issues by researching sustainability challenges. Students were then invited to propose their own creative solutions to be showcased at a regional celebration event.
The Impact: Turning climate ambition into classroom action
The programme successfully engaged 1,000 students, leaving them with a deeper understanding of how STEM skills can be applied to tackle global challenges. By making local green career pathways more visible, the initiative helped students connect their learning to real-world future opportunities, helping them to better understand the region’s growing green economy.
Teachers reported a significant boost in focus and confidence, particularly among students who do not always thrive in traditional academic settings.