“Young people from poorer backgrounds often have ability but aren’t encouraged into our industry. Young men from poorer families have the same issue. They run hands-on teaching sessions covering robotics, IT, and mechanics through the organizations Multiplique O Bem (“Multiply the Good”) and Oficina Maker.Ĭarolina Werneck, Social Manager, said, “We recruit from universities, but too few women study STEM subjects so it’s a priority to get more young women interested early. In Brazil, TechnipFMC’s Inclusion & Diversity team works with local non-profits to promote STEM careers at schools near our facilities. It’s the boy or girl next door who’s the real face of the energy industry.” “I’ve been involved in this for five years now, and I’ve had young women approach me at industry events to tell me they wouldn’t be there if they hadn’t heard me speak, hadn’t been shown there are opportunities for them in a male-dominated industry.
Mentors from TechnipFMC participate as career mentors, day chaperones, and supervisors, or present sessions on current and emerging technologies.Īdditionally, TechnipFMC supports Curtin University’s Girls Engineer Tomorrow event for undergraduates through career mentorship and an organizational showcase.īukkie said, “It’s important to see people who are just like you succeeding and see that there are so many opportunities in this industry – you don’t have to be a project engineer or a welder, you could be in IT, procurement, quality… and all those need STEM skills.
It’s a week-long event run by Engineers Australia for young women – an underrepresented community in STEM careers and the energy industry. Through the Energy Club’s Next Generation Schools Programme, Bukkie and other volunteers hold mentoring sessions each year at different schools and participate at the Expo day with a hands-on sand pit activity mimicking the lifecycle of a subsea project.īukkie also works with Women in Subsea Engineering’s Future Engineers Programme. Up to 5,000 students take part.Įarly engagement is also the strategy for the team in Perth, Australia, who run sessions for school students in Years Seven to Twelve, as well as for undergraduates and recent graduates.īukkie Orugun, Country Sales Manager, Surface Australasia, Asia Pacific, has been involved in outreach projects for five years, and loves seeing young people becoming inspired. TechnipFMC is also a core sponsor of the Consumer Energy Education Foundation’s Energy Day, where volunteers run activity sessions for at all levels from elementary to high school at its booth. In the United States, TechnipFMC teams deliver STEM sessions in schools and colleges, and the BOLD employee resource network group (ENRG) has been running its annual STEM day for Houston children since 2018 – including a successful virtual session during the pandemic. I was curious, and that led to me to my college course, then my first job in the automotive industry.” I was always with him when he was fixing something or repairing the car – even if I was just handing him tools. Tai said, “I became an engineer because of my dad. Now, she and hundreds of her TechnipFMC colleagues spread the message about STEM careers through activities and talks for young people. Tai, who is based in Houston, Texas, studied mechanical engineering because she got an early taste for technology.
Those are good jobs, jobs that need to be done, but they show what those kids aren’t seeing – they have nothing outside their experience to aspire to.” They said ‘supermarket cashier’ or ‘manage a fast-food restaurant’. Tai Prince, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, said: “I’ve run STEM activities with third-grade classes where I’ve asked kids what they want to be when they grow up. But with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects often thought of as “difficult”, how do you encourage young people to consider a career in energy?
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