Work Experience

STE(A)M work experience opportunity:

Robot Workshop & Competition Project Junior Project Manager and Team Members posts available

As a STEM Ambassador, with Firefly Charity as your employer, you will be required to work to promote coding, through setting up robot competitions and working with local primary school children.

Are you

  • willing to learn new skills (prior knowledge of coding not necessary, just the enthusiasm to learn)?
  • Can commit to meet regularly to develop skills and competition knowledge?
  • prepared (with support and in small groups of peers) to visit local schools and share your knowledge and enthusiasm of coding?

To apply, complete the form below by the deadline of 30th September


Work experience is a vital element of your learning at Petroc:

Learning about the world of work is an important part of learning, it can provide you with the goals and determination to persevere when studying and assignment writing is difficult. Your time working with real responsibilities, clear duties and to the tune of an employer can help you to determine what you would like to do in the future - and what not! The experiences you gain can be used to help you to the next stepping stone - to demonstrate important employability skills already gained as part of your interview or job application, or UCAS application.

How to go about gaining some STE(A)M related work experience offered on this site:

  • Read the details on this page, and decide if they are of interest to you, and that you would be able to commit.
  • Follow the instructions provided or contact STEM@Petroc.ac.uk directly for a chat to find out more.

STE(A)M work experience opportunity:

Buturi Collaboration Project Junior project manager and Team Member posts available

As a STE(A)M Ambassador, with the Buturi Charity as your employer, you will be expected to work with a community in rural Tanzania, to develop sustainable development, as requested by your employer's brief.

Are you

  • able to work with others to problem solve, share ideas, be creative and research into solutions?
  • willing to commit to start and finish a project that will be shared with a community in Tanzania
  • make available one hour a week to progress the project in a timely manner?

To apply complete the form at the bottom of the page.

NB: This project includes the opportunity of travel to Tanzania to pitch your ideas and meet those you have been collaborating with, in person.

Works experience opportunties 2019-20 STEAM.docx

These documents provide further details of the work experience opportunities available. Hurry, you would be crazy to miss out on such a chance!

Remember: Once you have decided you wish to apply, complete the form below and email us, following the instructions provided.

Works experience Buturi 2019-20 STEAM.docx
Works experience Robots 2019-20 STEAM.docx
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STE(A)M work experience opportunity:

Litter Innovation Project

This is to work on a Government funded project to develop an app to encourage people to pick up litter (See Litter Innovation project for more information)

Project Junior Project Manager and Team Members posts available

As a STEM Ambassador, with Petroc as your employer, you will be required to work in a team to develop and test an app, through setting up test trials and monitoring the impact, taking on board feedback and then improving the design to retest until we have a good working prototype to show to the Government (Defra). It will involve working with local primary school children and secondary school students to test the product.

Are you

  • willing to learn new skills (prior knowledge of being able to build an app is not necessary)?
  • Can commit to meet regularly to develop skills and competition knowledge?
  • prepared (with support and in small groups of peers) to visit local schools to project manage tests of the product?
  • Help with the research to develop and refine the model?

To apply, complete the form below by the deadline of 30th September