Skills Miner

Skills Miner award-winning games help young people discover engineering and manufacturing through problem-solving challenges in Minecraft, aligned with the National Curriculums.

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Why should you use Skills Miner?

Skills Miner uses Minecraft to:

Foster a deeper interest and higher attainment in STEM subjects
Inspire students to consider STEM-related studies and careers, addressing future labour shortages
Highlight the diversity of disciplines, people, and skills involved in engineering and manufacturing
Provide real-life scenarios to inspire young people to see the positive difference they can have in the world through engineering and manufacturing
Develop essential skills that boost employability in the engineering and manufacturing sector.

What is Skills Miner?

Our Skills Miner games feature fun, interactive engineering and manufacturing activities designed to introduce young people to careers in STEM. These free resources can be used by your organisation to showcase future opportunities through exciting problem-solving activities.

Skills Miner is making an impact

92%

of players felt they learnt something new.

88%

of student players want to know more about careers in engineering.

94%

of teachers feel Skills Miner is beneficial to student learning.

“I think it’s really fun! It’s a very cool way of learning new information.”

Student

Greenbank High School in Southport

Downloadable resources

Access ready-to-use teacher notes and resources for each Skills Miner game. Aligned with National Curriculums, Gatsby Career Benchmarks, the Skills Builder Framework, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, these materials are designed to enhance your lessons and career guidance.

Skills Miner: Aerospace

Download supporting resources for all aerospace lessons.

Skills Miner: Vertical Farming

Download supporting resources for all vertical farming lessons.

Skills Miner: Home Energy

Download supporting resources for all home energy lessons.

Explore video walkthroughs

Watch video walkthroughs of each of our Skills Miner games to familiarise yourself.

Real-life stories

Read real-life case studies from organisations and individuals in the engineering and manufacturing sector, solving problems for a more sustainable world.

Minecraft Education license

You will need a Minecraft Education license to play the game. You can find more on the Microsoft Education website.

Wales offers free Minecraft Education licenses to its teachers. You can find out more on the Welsh Government website.

Skills Miner

Our award-winning games enable young people to develop their engineering skills through problem-solving challenges in Minecraft, aligned with National Curriculum standards.

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Interested in free STEM outreach tools?

Inspire more students to be interested in STEM subjects and careers

All of our STEM outreach tools are designed with organisations and schools in mind, to inspire students to work in STEM and see the links between curriculum subjects and the real world.

Our online tools are created with technologies that students love, and our games and activities can be used by anyone, for free, to stimulate students' curiosity through problem-solving activities.