Cubik Innovation are proud to support local schools and colleges and strengthen the link between education and industry. Our aim is to ensure young people experience ‘real life’ engineering whilst gaining support navigating future career plans. This year we have accepted five work experience placement enquiries from students aged 14 to 17. This week, we were joined by 15-year-old,Grace Parraman from The Bristol Steiner School for a 4-day placement. Grace split her time between our administration, design and production departments which enabled her to gain an overview of the whole business.

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Here’s Grace’s work experience diary:

My four days at Cubik have flown by! Despite it being a short week, it was surprisingly tiring with a lot of stuff packed in.

I was very warmly welcomed by the lovely Lianne, the Office Coordinator at Cubik, who took me through l my induction papers, now sitting in my Cubik green folder, which I am fiercely proud of! The majority of my first morning was also spent, explaining to the team I didn’t like to drink tea or coffee which they found quite hard to believe.

On my second day I was in the production department or as I warmly think of it the ‘techy room’, doing some wire crimping and soldering. I think I have a lot to learn in both aspects but all in all a good experience. The team are an amazing group of people – you must be amazing to buy your work experience person a doughnut! I came home tired that day, a great snapshot of what to expect from a full working day.

On my third day I was back in the office working with Russell and Paul who showed me the world of electronic design and PCB layout. Russell and I had some interesting chats about wallabies, and he showed me what he was working on, which was very interesting.

I am writing this on my final day, and I have had an amazing experience! I would suggest to anyone who looking to do electronic design or any other technical engineering to talk to Cubik about possible work experience opportunities. I am undecided as whether I will enter the engineering industry one day, not because of my experience at Cubik, but because I really haven’t made up my mind where my heart lies.

I would like to say thank you to the whole team! Especially Sophie for finding me the opportunity, Lianne for being so lovely, Paul for granting me the opportunity and Bob the security man at the Bristol and Bath Science Park for generally being very nice, so thank you.

Unfortunately, this years’ work experience calendar is full, but we are always keen to hear of young engineers looking to gain some experience in electronic design and production. Please contact us directly or via our enquiries mailbox to discuss placements for 2016.