Make It in Manufacturing
Every time we use a mobile phone, surf the net, visit the cinema, look around our homes, schools and colleges, and move around our towns and cities, we're surrounded by the huge impact manufacturing has on all our lives.
Make It helps you to discover what manufacturing means to you and
how it could lead to a rewarding and exciting career in the future.
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Make It in Manufacturing is an image campaign set up by The Manufacturing Institute to help businesses find the right people with the right skills as well as opening your eyes to a career that involves, well, making things. And when we say 'things', we mean iPods, clothes, mobiles, games consoles and pretty much anything else you can think of. What's more, a career in modern day manufacturing can be better paid than most other jobs. Watch the video to find out more about the Make It campaign and our exciting plans for the future.
Make it Enterprise Day
Today there are all manner of desirable jobs to get your teeth into; from dreaming up a new range of must-have trainers to producing part of the latest F1 racing car. Interested? Then the Make It Marketing Manufacturing Enterprise Day could be right up your street. The Make it campaign gives 6 schools the chance to create a new Make it website with new features, content, page ideas as well as a marketing strategy. The check the ideas were good enough, the teams presented to a panel of Dragon's Den style panel of judges.
Take a look at the video to find out more
BAE Systems Make It Enterprising Challenge
Are you a fan of Dragons Den on BBC 2? Well, the Make It campaign has taken inspiration from the show and teamed up with BAE Systems and several other successful companies to dream up a series of exciting challenge events. Teams of 14-15 year olds designed, made, marketed, tested and sold unmanned Rescue Emergency vehicles before pitching their ideas to a panel of Dragons. The reward for the top three teams was an appearance in the Central Lancashire Regional Final in April 2009. Watch the video and find out how the teams got on.
