Savient Limited Sparks STEM Futures, Powered by Our Developing Talent!

At Savient Limited, we're passionate about supporting the next generation of IT and cyber professionals. Over the last nine months, we've had an incredible team whose contributions to creating a STEM workshop we could take into schools. Our team includes T-Level students from Cirencester College, Lucy Smith, our graduate software engineer, Ben Sweetman, who recently completed his Level 4 software apprenticeship, and George Keen, on his professional placement year from the University of Gloucestershire.

As part of their development whilst working at Savient, this team has collaborated to build an interactive STEM workshop. They've skilfully taken an original concept and expanded it, creating a fantastic range of individual IT and paper-based puzzles designed to challenge students on key STEM concepts.

Last Friday, we had the exciting opportunity to deliver this STEM workshop to over 150 Year 8 students at ST JOHN'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY in Bromsgrove as part of their annual career’s day. Our team, led by Lucy, Ben, George, David, and Sarah, transformed the school hall. They set up the STEM puzzles on various tables, creating a high-energy environment for students to work in small, competitive groups. Students earned points for their teams by tackling the timed puzzles, and our team awarded additional bonus points for collaboration, creativity, teamwork, and problem-solving. We were absolutely thrilled to see so many bonus points given out and demostrated how well the students worked together and participated. With our leaderboard developed by Ben, the students for each session were able to see their teams progress and points total and added to the overall fun of the workshops as well as how long was left to achieve those value STEM points.

While exploring engaging STEM puzzles was a core element, our main goal was to highlight the crucial importance of teamwork skills. These abilities are essential for any school project, club, or future career. It was a true highlight for Lucy, Ben, and George to see their hard work come to life and witness the workshop they helped create delivered firsthand to such an enthusiastic audience of students.

Throughout the day, we spoke to students about the diverse opportunities available in the tech sector, from apprenticeships and T-Levels to graduate roles. We encouraged them to chat with us, pick up career pathway leaflets about Savient Limited, and explore future career possibilities.

The careers event at ST JOHN'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL ACADEMY in Bromsgrove was fantastic with demonstrations from tree surgeons, comprehensive talks from the police, NHS, armed forces, aviation, and e-gaming industries. We hope that the wide represented careers, including our engaging STEM workshop, inspired the students to think deeply about their potential future careers and upcoming GCSE options as they head into high school this September.

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