WMG Work Experience
WMG Work Experience Week
Information for Supporting Staff
On this page, supporting staff who have received an email confirming their role, will find all the most up to date information relevant to their attendance:
About this event
The WMG Work Experience aims at making work experience placements accessible to students without a family background in engineering.
A group of 30 students in year 10 are invited to spend a week at the 果冻传媒 with our engineers. They work in groups on a project for the whole week and produce a final demonstration to present at a showcase. Each project is different and links directly to an area of active research within WMG. We explore the design process, prototyping, testing, and improving, and how each research area will have an impact on society in the future.
Event Lead
The event is organised by
the WMG Outreach Team
and the event leads at WMG are
Phil Jemmett and Marie Diebolt
Email:WMGOutreach@warwick.ac.uk
On the day of the event you can contact us via Teams or on07824 540 896
Your role
As part of a team of volunteers, you will lead a group of 6 children during the week to support them completing their group engineering project. You will be expected to volunteer for a minimum of 1 slot (2.5 hours) and a maximum of 2 consecutive days (6 hours).
Depending on when you will be supporting the young people in the week, you may help them:
- consider a challenge/problem they would like to tackle through their project
- brainstorm potential solutions and write a project plan
- identify requirements, resources and risks
- test their design and record results
- deliver a specific product or concept to present at the showcase
- present their work at the showcase.
What to prepare before the day
- Put together a team of 3 or 4 colleagues
- Identify a project you would like to work with (existing project or new one)
- Think of an open-ended challenge and two or three potential solutions
- Resource and provide interactive content to encourage the children to work their way towards those solutions.
- Think of ways the young people could test and record their findings and ensure that you have appropriate resources to support them.
- Plan for supporting resources if your group struggles and extension activities if they complete the activities too quickly.
- Provide risk assessments for your activity if necessary.
Timeslots available
We are looking for volunteer for a minimum of 1 slot and a maximum of 2 consecutive days. You will need to arrive 10 minutes before your allocated slots and keep some time at the end to tidy up.
| Times |
Session outline
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| Session 1 Tuesday 30th June |
10:00am - 11:15am |
Session 1 is a meet and greet and brainstorm session. You will meet the group of children you will be working with this week and get to know them a bit before starting the project.
It will be your first lengthy session on the project with your group. A good opportunity to brainstorm ideas, give out roles, and assess the resources available with the children.
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| Session 2 Tuesday 30th June |
12:00pm - 12:45pm |
Session 2 is a good opportunity to summarise the decisions made as a group in earlier in the morning and to draft a plan with key milestones towards an agreed outcome for your project. |
| Session 3 Tuesday 30th June |
14:15pm - 14:45pm | Session 3 is an opportunity for your group to start building the prototype for their project once you have agreed desired outcomes, roles, resources and drafted a plan. |
| Session 4 Wednesday 1st July |
10:00am - 11:30am | Session 4 is a large prototype building block where you can support your group building their first iteration of the project and test it. |
| Session 5
Wednesday 1st July |
11:45am - 12:45pm | Session 5 gives you an opportunity to support your group finalising their first prototype and test it. |
| Session 6 Wednesday 1st July |
13:30pm- 14:45pm | Session 6 is the third session of the day where you can support your group summarising the progress made, evaluate what the prototype strengths and weaknesses are and make a plan for the following day. (This plan could be a good handover documents between the group leads if you are not all doing day 4).
15 minutes at the end of the session will be used to tidy your project area and table.
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| Session 7
Thursday 2nd July |
10:00am - 11:30am | Session 7 is the start of the penultimate day on this project (you will still have tomorrow morning as well before the showcase in the afternoon). Quickly review the progress made so far and set the students to work on their final iteration of the project and test it. |
| Session 8
Thursday 2nd July |
11:45am - 12:45pm | Session 8 is a good opportunity to test the improvements made and finalise the project. |
| Session 9 Thursday 2nd July |
13:30pm- 14:00pm |
Session 9 is a good opportunity to review the progress made on the final iteration of the project and plan for the next morning. It is a good session as well to level emotions about the showcase and reassure students that the audience is us, their teachers and parents so nothing to worry about.
A photographer might be present to this session. Please let us know if you wish to not have your picture taken at this event
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| Session 10 Friday 3rd July |
10:00am - 11:30am |
Session 10 is your last big block session - ideally you want to have finished the project by the end of this session so you can use the session after that to talk about the showcase and start practising presenting skills (but if not, you will still have time to finalise things before the afternoon so no panic!)
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| Session 11 Friday 3rd July |
11:45am - 12:15pm |
The last prep before the showcase! |
| Showcase Friday 3rd July |
13:00pm - 16:00pm |
Each group is presenting a poster and their demo to their parents and teachers and WMG staff. |
Photo and Video Consent
There will be a photographer present on some of the days and at the showcase. If you do not wish to be photographed, please let us know before or at the start of the event.
Photos will be used on our social media and marketing news piece to talk about the impact of the event and may feature in our internal and external 2026 impact reports.
You can find a copy of our consent form here for you to sign and return to us.
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Get in touch with our Outreach Team to help young people realise their potential in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.