diff --git a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.sandbox b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.sandbox
index 7c22cc3e29..3cccd8ee6c 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.sandbox
+++ b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile.sandbox
@@ -63,6 +63,24 @@ ENV PATH="/lean4/my_project:$PATH"
 COPY requirements/code_execution.txt /app/requirements.txt
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r /app/requirements.txt
 
+
+# Install STEM related libraries
+COPY requirements/stem.txt /app/stem_requirements.txt
+
+
+# Speed/size/env hygiene
+ENV PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK=1 \
+    UV_SYSTEM_PYTHON=1 \
+    PATH="/root/.local/bin:${PATH}"
+
+
+# Install uv (adds to ~/.local/bin), then install deps
+RUN if [ "$GITHUB_CI" != "1" ]; then \
+        curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh  && \
+        uv pip install --upgrade pip && \
+        uv pip install -r /app/stem_requirements.txt --no-cache-dir --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu; \
+    fi
+
 # For scicode eval - create data directory and download test data
 # Set GITHUB_CI=1 build arg to skip download (useful for CI when download fails)
 # If skipped, scicode evaluations will fail unless the file is manually mounted
diff --git a/requirements/stem.txt b/requirements/stem.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c86cb3b4e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/stem.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+arxiv
+ascii_magic
+astronomy
+astroquery
+atc
+basc
+bbn
+beautifulsoup4
+bible
+biopython
+bioservices
+bson
+cactus
+cantera
+certifi
+chardet
+chemicals
+chemics
+chemlib
+chempy
+chemspipy
+chess
+cloudscraper
+convertdate
+conway
+coxeter
+Crypto
+cssselect
+cvxopt
+cvxpy
+data
+datasets
+ddc
+depmap
+diff
+dill
+dipy
+dp_accounting
+duckduckgo_search
+easyocr
+ecdsa
+enchant
+ephem
+ete3
+feedparser
+filetype
+fiona
+fishpy
+fontTools
+galois
+gemmi
+geocoder
+geonamescache
+geopandas
+geopy
+gita
+gmpy2
+googletrans
+grep
+gutenbergpy
+html5lib
+HTMLParser
+huggingface_hub
+iapws
+imageio
+importlib_metadata
+importlib_resources
+IndianConstitution
+indic_nlp_library
+inflect
+ipywidgets
+isbnlib
+jax
+jdcal
+language_tool_python
+law
+lie
+LIEGenTools
+lifelines
+lingpy
+lxml
+matplotlib
+mendeleev
+mido
+mimic
+mingus
+mip
+molmass
+molparse
+molvs
+music21
+mygene
+myvariant
+networkx
+nibabel
+nltk
+nuclear
+num2words
+numba
+numpy
+numpy_financial
+ocl
+open_tamil
+opencv-python
+openmc_data
+openmm
+openpyxl
+optopy
+ortools
+osmnx
+packaging
+paddleocr
+pandapower
+pandas
+pandas_datareader
+pdf2image
+pdfminer
+pdfplumber
+pdfreader
+piexif
+pint
+planarity
+polyhedron
+pretty_midi
+pronouncing
+ptable
+py3Dmol
+pybel
+pyclipper
+pycosat
+pycountry
+pydataset
+pyequion
+pyfiglet
+pyfluids
+pyhull
+pylaw
+pymatgen
+pymcm
+pymongo
+PyMuPDF
+PyPDF2
+pyromat
+pysam
+pysat
+pyscf
+pysmiles
+pyswisseph
+pytamil
+pyteomics
+pytesseract
+python-igraph
+python-snappy
+qiskit
+quote
+quotes
+qutip
+ragas
+rdflib
+rdkit
+requests
+requests_cache
+sanskrit
+sanskrit_parser
+scipy
+seaborn
+shakespeare
+shapely
+sieve
+skimpy
+skyfield
+spacy
+spherogram
+statistic
+statsmodels
+steam
+stim
+sympy
+tamil
+tensorflow
+tensorflow_datasets
+thermo
+thermochem
+thermopy
+thermostat
+tinycss2
+torch
+torchvision
+transformers
+trimesh
+typ
+utils
+vedas
+wbdata
+webcolors
+wikidata
+wikipedia>=1.4.0
+wikipedia_api
+wordfreq
+wptools
+yfinance