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IHEEM representatives continue engaging with young minds in a milestone NHS year
Several senior IHEEM representatives – including CEO, Pete Sellars, COO, Tania Davies, President, Alison Ryan, and Council Member for the East Midlands, James Chadwick – continued IHEEM’s ongoing engagement with the potential engineers of the future via STEM events when they attended the IET’s high- profile FIRST LEGO League Great Britain National Final in Harrogate on 22 April. The IET says the FIRST LEGO League is the world’s largest STEM programme, delivered in over 110 countries, adding that the programme had attracted 6,500 teams, and ‘almost 800 unique organisations’ in the last academic year. The Great Britain National Final on 22 April at the Harrogate Convention Centre was the biggest such event to date, with 70 teams, comprising 700 young people from across England, Wales, and Scotland, competing to be crowned Champions. The winners will have the chance to further compete at an international competition.
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A valuable day in Harrogate Tania Davies said: “It was a really enjoyable and valuable day in Harrogate. We had around 420 youngsters engage with us, and it proved a great opportunity to discuss careers in this field, as well as to promote IHEEM, membership of the Institute and the benefits, and some of our key activities. We also had a lot of fun.” IHEEM presented two youngsters with a LEGO model hospital as winners of a raffle on the day.” Pete Sellars added: “We were delighted to attend this event and connect with and promote IHEEM to so many young people. Being able to directly engage in this way is a vital part of our continued commitment to encouraging the next generation of healthcare engineers and EFM professionals. We are also pleased to continue our connection to the IET following our previous partnership in the Faraday Challenge. I would like to thank IHEEM members, James, Helen, and Alison, who gave their time at the
Imagine there is another pandemic, and the
Government has decided to make Buckingham Palace a temporary hospital. What would the key challenges be, and who
would we need to be involved? Helen Sturdy FIHEEM, ProCure23
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During the Careers Fair at Cundall Manor School in March, Helen Sturdy reckons she talked to, and engaged with, about 150 students during the day.
weekend to support the Institute at this extremely rewarding event.” As part of the NHS’s 75th year this year, members of the NHSE Estates & Facilities and ProCure23 teams have also been ‘ramping up’ attendance at a number of STEM events, promoting the attractions of careers in healthcare engineering and estate management and healthcare design and construction. One of those involved is Helen Sturdy FIHEEM, who is head of, and Framework and Construction lead at, ProCure23, an IHEEM and NHSE STEM Ambassador, and a member of IHEEM’s Membership & Registration Committee. She said: “I was on the IHEEM stand for much of the day at the event in Harrogate – IHEEM is an IET Faraday Challenge Partner – and it again provided a great opportunity to engage with young people about careers in healthcare engineering / estate management and design and construction. It was great to be on the stand with Pete Sellars, Tania Davies, Alison Ryan, and James Chadwick.” A few weeks earlier, on 10 March, Helen
Sturdy had attended a school careers day at a mixed private school, Cundall Manor
School, close to her home in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, on behalf of IHEEM and NHSE, having been asked by the school to be there. She said: “During what proved a very worthwhile day representing IHEEM and NHSE, I was able to discuss with students aged 13-16 some of the varied and interesting roles in healthcare engineering and estate management, and healthcare construction, and some of the more typical entry routes, as well as talking through my own career. In all I must have talked to about 150 students, advising them on some of the routes into such career roles – including via T-levels, degrees, and apprenticeships, and explaining how to find out more. At this, and a second STEM event I attended in April, I took along a LEGO model of Buckingham Palace, and set some of those I talked to an imaginary challenge: ‘Imagine there is another pandemic, and the Government has decided to make the Palace a temporary hospital. What would the key challenges be, and who would we need to be involved?’ Among the issues I asked them to consider were: n Who lives there… what do they do, where do they go?
n The red vehicle pictured is a bus…what could be the challenges of converting it to an ambulance?
n The black car has patients in it… how do we get them safely to the hospital?
n What equipment do we need? n Who do we need to create the right space/environment?
n How do we ensure patients are comfortable?
n Who do we need to support them? n Who are all the hospital staff? n What do we need to consider as far as
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