Worcestershire Employment and Skills board
Carl Arntzen, our CEO, is Chair of Worcestershire Employment and Skills board.The main remit is to champion investment in the workforce by the private sector to support and sustain economic growth.
Their broad purpose is to support schools and provide learning opportunities, lobby government (both local and national) and to encourage and promote skills investment in Worcestershire's workforce to all employers and their supply chains, to ensure the widest possible business engagement in recruitment, retention and skills development.
Carl is also involved with the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Institute of Technology outreach board. Their focus is to attract more students to study STEM topics.
Engaging the next generation with STEM at the FIRST Lego League Festival
Worcester Bosch HQ hosted pupils from four local schools for the West Midlands FIRST Lego League Explore Festival, inspiring them to participate with STEM topics. The initiative aims to address the engineering skills gap by engaging children with science, technology and maths from a young age. 42 children from local schools Nunnery Wood Primary School, Perry Wood Primary School, St Peter's Academy Droitwich and Upton Snodsbury First School participated in the festival and learned the importance of STEM topics. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Masterpiece’ which looked at the connection between technology and the arts. The children learnt how to code robots and created posters on the theme.
STEM – Bronze Project
Two Stem Ambassadors at our Clay Cross site in Derbyshire have been working with local schools – Derby High School and Tibshelf School as mentors to advise and support on STEM projects within the Industrial Cadets Bronze project – a 12 week STEM project for students in year 8 and 9.
Women in Engineering
The Bosch Group is active in the Women in Engineering movement across the globe, which aims to encourage engineering as a career for women. We have held regular events at Worcester Bosch and virtually, to debate the topic and have training sessions, also visiting schools to promote the subject.
Picture a Greener Future book
For younger readers we have a workbook called ‘Picture a Greener Future’, which talks about home energy efficiency and how to save energy and resources at home – it includes a wordsearch and colouring section.
Download the book