The Hinkley Point C Inspire Education Programme

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As part of the Hinkley Point C project EDF Energy has developed the Inspire Education Programme. This film provides just a glimpse of some of the exciting opportunities available to children across Somerset. Transcript Nigel Cann - Hinkley Point C Construction Director. It is really important our Inspire Programme. This really sets the tone I think for the tone I think for a sustainable pipeline for people into the construction industry generally and also to support our project at Hinkley Point C. Will Hinkley Point C is a nuclear power plant that is going to provide 7% of the UK’s electricity. There’s lots of jobs available, I didn’t realise there were so many jobs involved in a nuclear power plant. Daniel The opportunities created by new power plants like Hinkley Point C is ridiculous. It’s going to be a brilliant opportunity especially living so close. There’s apprenticeships schemes that they run, the graduates schemes that they run it’s really a wide opportunity for anybody who wants to actually do something that will matter – not just to our generation, not just to the next generation but after that as well. Tamsin Within EDF Energy I sort of want to go into more hands on engineering type of things because I find that interesting and I like how they have done it with the apprenticeships. Being around the graduates has been good because they have been through it all and they know what you’ve got to do to get there and how hard it can be, so they are teaching me skills that I’m going to need and what is actually relevant to the course that I want to take. Guy Hazlehurst - Construction Workforce Development Manager To join the Hinkley C workforce in the future you need to be taking the right subjects and making the right decisions and taking advice, talking to people at your school but also engaging with our Inspire programme who come around to schools regularly to help them look at their future in STEM and engineering careers. If you want an apprenticeship to join our workforce at peak you’re in year 8 right now, so events like this are extremely important because it’s a way for us to get to the people we need to work on Hinkley Point C in the future. Bronwen Webb - Personal Assistant at WDF Energy It’s really good to see the Inspire programme reaching out to all the schools. What’s so good about the Hinkley Point C Project is it’s not just about bricks and mortar, there’s lot of other jobs from catering to logistics to administration, to finance, to kind of dealing with the public to doing absolutely anything. The world is your oyster, so just get out there and come and join us. Meg Moore – Graduate Trainee at EDF Energy The Inspire Education Programme, I think it’s really important as an investment into the future not only of EDF Energy but of the British nuclear industry, so engaging with young people who are in schools now to be the future workforce for the nuclear industry is really great. Barbara Jones – HR Director Nuclear New Build We are creating a pipeline for the future, a pipeline of skills and a pipeline of opportunity to meet the aspirations of the great young people I see here. Simon Kettle – Executive Director at Stemworks I hope I have inspired the next generation of engineers and scientists, that’s really number one that I hope to do. It just makes you realise how creative young people are, especially young people here in the UK. And they’re the sorts of people we want to be our engineers and scientists of the future. Anna Brooking – Career Consultant Careers South West And get that across to teachers in the best way we possibly could, how they can promote STEM within schools and how they can look for information, find fresh resources, new resources and resources that work. Jack I had no idea about what job I wanted to do but I know it had to be something to do with engineering and EDF have almost narrowed it down for me and I would like to do an apprenticeship with them. They’ve done a lot to help us with our own skills that we may require at school or even in a future jobs.