Company workplace challenge

Location

School/ College/ Workplace/ Home

Suggested duration

• Approximately 30 minutes for employers to set challenge.

  Sufficient time allocated for students to develop project plan, conduct research, strategise solutions and develop presentation material. Minimum of 4 hours suggested for independent student working.

Employer outcomes

• Gain a different perspective to problems and gather tangible contributions to solutions
• Insight into future workforce, who are now able to effectively work in teams, communicate and solve problems
• Opportunity to develop employees through delegation of responsibility to oversee challenge with students

Student outcomes

• Engage in an authentic problem-based challenge
• Develop and demonstrate skills to an employer

Educator outcomes

• Access to real work-based problems for students to work on with supporting resources and employer knowledge base
• Opportunity to capture case study and examples of students developing and displaying transferable skills such as teamwork, problem-solving, effective project management and pitching and presenting

Employer resources

• Challenge developed and if required a pre-recorded video setting the challenge or a written form of challenge
• Supporting resources as appropriate to enable students to work on challenge
• Agreed time for Q&A at midpoint and feedback at end of experience

Student resources

• Access to the challenge
• Access to supporting resources
• May require IT / internet access depending on the challenge
• Agreed time for Q&A at midpoint and feedback at end of experience

Educator resources

• Access to the challenge
• Access to supporting resources
• Ability to group students into working groups where possible
• Agreed time for Q&A at midpoint and feedback at end of experience