Johnson & Johnson Medical / Ethicon Johnson & Johnson UK
On the 11th of July at the Pinewood Campus over 100 guests including students, parents and J&J volunteers celebrated the launch of BTE with a reception, BBQ and guest speakers sharing their experience and excitement about the programme.
The event was a huge success! Thank you to everyone at J&J including Wendy Richardson, Leila Mohamed, Lynn Heaver and all the fantastic volunteers. Special thanks to Malith Mudurasinghe, Mark Pritchard, Alistair Stewart, Poppy Green and Elaine Murphy who all shared their personal experiences and really brought the meaning and importance of the programme to life.
Students went home excited for the BTE official Kick Off in September and with goodie bags and BTE Pin Badges as well!
Welcome BTE Bracknell Class of 2021!
| Timing | Activity |
| 1600 – 1700 | Intro to J&J (inc video)
Intro to BTE (Inc video) Intro to MKF (inc video) Volunteers speak about their experience and why they volunteered for BTE Teacher Tour |
| 1700 – 1800 | Prep for launch activity
Student arrival |
| 1800 – 1830 | Intro to J&J (inc video)
Intro to BTE (Inc video) Intro to MKF (inc video) Volunteer individuals/group speak about their experience and why they volunteered for BTE: Malith Mudurasinghe, Mark Pritchard, Alistair Stewart, Poppy Green and Elaine Murphy. |
| 1830 – 1915 |
BBQ Food and networking |
| 1915 – 1945 |
Closing remarks More detail about the Bracknell specific programme Hand out merchandise (Goodie bags and BTE Pin Badge) Official welcome to BTE Bracknell class of 2021 What’s next? |
On September 24th BTE Students arrived at J&J Pinewood for an Experiential Session!
Our volunteers ran a number of Demonstration Stands and helped students understand what people at Pinewood really do.
Special thanks to:
Our lead volunteer – Elaine!
Our product leads – Malith, Alistair, Sandy, Dwayne, Adam, Rachel and Chris!
Mr Lake and all the students for attending and taking part.
On Oct 4th a MyKindaFuture tutor facilitated an interactive session including challenges and a debate on Social Media’s impact on Mental Health.
We will also heard from some J&J Volunteer Mark Butcher on how STEM has impacted his career path.
In this session students learnt important skills which will help with academic work in the next years including team work, communication and structuring arguments.
Congratulations to our winners of Human Bingo, the Spaghetti/Marshmallow Tower Challenge and the Debate!
You can find the PowerPoint presentation for this session as an attached document below.
See you next time!
November 20th saw our first Guest Lecture of #BTEBracknell!
Paul Teasdale from McLaren came into Easthampstead Park Community School and gave a fantastic talk on:
Huge thank you to Paul for coming and providing such great insight, Lynn Heaver for organising the speaker, Richard Lake for organising the venue and all the J&J Volunteers for giving up their time to attend!
Volunteer led session on How To Make A Good First Impression!
The session equipped students with the tools needed to make a great first impression when meeting someone new, going into an interview or attending a networking event.
We started off with a video on the worst handshakes you can experience and all took turns practising! In the second half the session we put together our elevator pitches and understood our identity and achievements!
Thanks to Sandy for leading out handshake session, Poppy for leading on elevator pitches and everyone for getting involved and making the activities fun!
On December 10th students, volunteers and teacher from the Limerick, Ireland and Bracknell BTE sites took part in a session to solve a common problem. Students were able to first present back to eachother on their site, and then were given a collective task in 4 teams.
This session was hosted over Zoom and gave students a chance to work cross site and with the support of various J&J volunteers to reach a solution to the scenario based task they were given.
The students received a pre recorded session on self reflection and gratitude to support them in looking back on 2020.
You can access this session here:
https://jnjmeetings.zoom.us/rec/share/awenUikmAEsXnH-2j4Evxc-mdo0xieXGZQgQJmMUwUm9ungg52UX6vKug5CjpqJb.mDEvErrm_cow9mSi
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