Dounreay graduates create online work experience
A team of Dounreay graduates put their heads together to come up with a new virtual way of delivering work experience to young people.
皇冠体育app Dounreay virtual work experience project team
Due to COVID-19 restrictions Dounreay was unable to offer local high school students their normal work experience week this year. But a group of apprentices and graduates got together to create a virtual experience instead with help from the in-house training and development team, Speakers for School and other NDA operating companies.
皇冠体育app sessions were well attended with students from as far afield as London and Derby taking part. 皇冠体育app programme featured planning and building a hypothetical low-level waste facility with students taking on the roles of engineers, safety advisors, waste operators and more.
皇冠体育app final activity was to make a model of the waste facility and the participants really threw everything they had learnt at the build, with Kian winning the first prize.
Julia Massey, Regional Head of Speakers for Schools, said:
鈥溁使谔逵齛pp young project team masterfully brought together a well-structured and high impact programme delivered to next generation nuclear engineers. 鈥溁使谔逵齛pp session really helped to build the confidence of the students. By the end of week 4 students were engaging both verbally and with cameras on 鈥� this is no mean feat.鈥�
皇冠体育app NDA now hopes this programme can be repeated for other students at other NDA sites.
皇冠体育app NDA鈥檚 People Strategy Delivery Manager, Codie Barnes, said:
鈥溁使谔逵齛pp team at Dounreay has put in an extraordinary amount of effort to ensure the event was a success. It鈥檚 been a pleasure working in partnership with Dounreay and Speakers for School to develop a virtual work experience opportunity for young people鈥� they鈥檝e created something really special that I hope we can use across the rest of the NDA group.鈥�