What an absolutely brilliant two days we had for #STEMWest22 held at our host organisation West College Scotland on the 21st and 22nd November.

We were so excited to finally have this event back in person and we would like to say a massive thank you to every employer who supported this event and to all of the pupils & school staff who attended.

This was our biggest and best STEM West yet and we can't wait for next year!

You can check out the rest of our photos on our other social media platforms https://buff.ly/3EApP2W

Here's the list of the brilliant employers who supported this event:

Abbey Vets

Altrad - Doosan Babcock

Amey

Arnold Clark

BA maintenance

Babcock Clyde

BAE Systems

BE-ST

City Gate Construction

Diodes

Dounreay Site Restoration

DSM

Ferguson Marine

Gardiner & Theobold

Hoare Lea

Howden

HPE

Kier

Lantra

Lenovo

Lomond Radio

Morrison Construction

NHS GGC

NHS Golden Jubilee

NMIS

Rangers

Rolls Royce

RSPB

Scottish Leather

Sea Life Loch Lomond

SmartStems

Swissport

Thales

Thermo Fisher

University of Strathclyde

University of Glasgow

UWS

West College Scotland

Wild Oysters / Clyde Porpoise

This month we attended the My Climate Path Green Careers Showcase Event at The Studio in Glasgow.

The event hosted a number of Scotland's young people and businesses that demonstrated the green careers currently available across a range of sectors, as well as a number of brilliant guest speakers and a special appearance from First Minister For Further Education, Higher Education & Science of Scotland, Jamie Hepburn.

A group of pupils shared a short presentation on what they had been doing since COP26 in relation to Green Skills and well done to Mearns Castle who also did a showcase at the event. Each school then attended 2 interactive workshops and career talks from Climate Heroes leading the way in sustainability in their industry.

This month we hosted International Chef's Day in partnership with West College Scotland.
 

School pupils from across West Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde were split across the three West College Scotland Campuses to enjoy a brilliant day of cooking and demonstrations from multiple brilliant chefs.
 

Thank you to everyone who attended the event and a special thank you to all of the amazing chefs.

Once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2022.
This year, Creative Careers Week 2022 will run from 21-25 November, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme.

Aims
1. Raise awareness among young people, educators, parents/carers and careers’ influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries
2. Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries while highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
3. Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2022. 

To celebrate a year since COP26 took place in Glasgow, My Climate Path is promoting a two-part campaign for the public, schools and businesses to get involved in.

The aim of our Climate Campaign is to inform and raise awareness of the green skills agenda, highlight the environmental credentials of our Climate Hero businesses, and celebrate all the activity which My Climate Path has completed so far.
                                                                                      
As part of the campaign, My Climate Path is hosting a Climate Trail around Glasgow city centre. Glasgow's Climate Trail is a fun, interactive scavenger hunt which will lead young people and business professionals around the city’s most sustainable and circular locations via an app called 'ActionBound'.

The campaign also aims to celebrate everyone's journey to becoming more environmentally cautious by encouraging everybody to share on social media what they have been doing for climate change since COP26 using #MyClimatePath.

Find out how you can get involved

We won bronze!

Our My Climate Path, COP26 educational legacy project won in the Education Excellence category at this years Global Good Awards!

We are so proud to be part of the amazing #COP26 education legacy initiative!

Well done to everyone involved in this project, including our ClimateHeroes!

This month we hosted, in partnership with Howden, a Teacher Insight Day at their factory in Renfrew. Teachers from schools around the West Region were invited along for talks and tours of the facility.

Thank you to all of the teachers who came along & everyone at Howden who helped to organise and run the event!

If your company is interested in hosting a teacher insight day with us please get in touch with us at info@dywwest.co.uk

Last week we attended the launch event of an exciting new Business Networking Group at Dumbarton Football Stadium, put together by Dumbarton Football Club, Dunbartonshire Chamber of Commerce and Rock You Events.

The Dumbarton Loves Local Business Club is free to all businesses and will take place on a monthly basis at Dumbarton Football Club. Under the Loves Local banner the aim of the event is to bring local businesses together to connect, share, support and build relationships and encourage members to #ChooseLocal.

The next event will be taking place on Thursday 27th October.

Once again, in partnership with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is delighted to deliver Creative Careers Week 2022.

This year, Creative Careers Week 2022 will run from 21-25 November, with 3 key aims and 4 main strands of activity. We very much hope your organisation can get involved in any of the strands. To register your interest, complete this FORM and read on to find out more about the programme.

Aims
1. Raise awareness among young people, educators, parents/carers and careers’ influencers of the breadth of roles and range of pathways available within the creative and cultural industries
2. Inspire young people to consider a career in the creative and cultural industries while highlighting the breadth of roles and range of pathways available
3. Encourage and support employers across the creative and cultural industries to engage with young people and education through Creative Careers Week 2022

Could you #ShareAnHour a week to mentor a young person and support them to find and grow their talents?

Scottish mentoring charity MCR Pathways are looking for mentors across Inverclyde and West Dunbartonshire. At MCR Pathways, we believe that a young person's future should be determined by their talents and never their circumstances. Our award-winning programme carefully matches young people with a mentor to meet for just one hour a week, in school. This one to one relationship makes a profound impact on young people's confidence and future, as well as being beneficial for employees and businesses supporting mentoring.
 
All steps to becoming a mentor can be done online and full training is provided. No qualifications are needed, just the desire to make a difference.

For more information, please visit: MCR Pathways or email nicola.smith@mcrpathways.org with any questions.