Girls in Energy

Title: Girls in Energy 2023

Duration: 3:23 minutes

Description:

Video from the Girls in Energy annual conference in 2023

Girls in Energy is a year-long engineering course for 14 to 17-year-old high school students, sponsored by Shell and delivered in partnership with North East Scotland College (NESCol) and Fife College.

Girls in Energy has been specifically designed to encourage young women to engage in the STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and maths, and to consider a career in the global energy sector as it transitions towards net zero.

Girls in Energy 2023 Transcript

[Background music plays]

Bright, uplifting music.

[Image of the exterior of The Music Hall in Aberdeen]

[Image of the interior of The Music Hall in Aberdeen showing the stage and the tables with groups of students sat at the tables]

[Introduction]

Shell Social Investment Advisor

Mairi McKay

{We're here at the Girls in Energy Conference today at the Music Hall in Aberdeen. This is where we bring together all of the students that have been taking part in this year's Girls in Energy programme.}

[Students are shown working in groups]

[Introduction to Girls in Energy]

NESCol Director of Business Development

Duncan Abernethy

{This is almost a showcase for the qualification they get this year which is a Nat 5 Skills for Work Energy course. It’s really important because it opens up a wide range of career possibilities.}

[Students are shown working in groups at the tables, on flipcharts]

Shell Social Investment Lead - Skills

Jennifer Macdonald

{I think the main focus here is to demonstrate that the energy transition is an opportunity for all.}

Shell Head of Corporate Relations

Madeline Whitaker

{Girls should be encouraged into STEM careers for the same reason everyone should be encouraged into STEM careers. They can be hugely rewarding careers, and they're tackling some of the big issues in society.}

NESCol Sponsored Initiatives Coordinator

Andy Maitland

{We take the girls out on industry visits as well to different companies and we get females down in different roles to speak about their journey, how they got there.}

[Someone is show giving a careers talk on the stage]

[About the conference]

Shell Social Investment Advisor

Mairi McKay

{Today the girls are using the Shell NXPlorers methodology to think about problem solving and collaborating and solving sustainability challenges. They are working together, they are sharing their ideas, they’re growing in confidence throughout the day.}

Shell Business Analyst

Harshada Deshmukh

{I think its going to really help them to kind of build up that confidence the boost that they need, when in future, they go into the energy industry.}

[Students’ thoughts on the conference]

Aberdeen Grammar

Morven Maclean and Evelina Anagnostopoulou-Martzoukou

{I found it really interesting that even people from other schools are still thinking about the same isues I am.}

Ellon Academy

Lorelei Mannen

{I think a career in energy is very important in this day and age and would be quite fun.}

Mintlaw Academy

Holly Yule

{I’d really like a career in energy which is why I'm doing this course, because I would like to be a Mechanical Engineer.}

Banff Academy

Fia Ord and Madison Taylor

{Meeting new people has like, helped me come outside my comfort zone.}

Bucksburn Academy

Taylor Keith and Sam Nurse

{It feels so good speaking to new people and getting into the different groups because you just get to interact and all your ideas come together.}

[Encouraging young women into the energy industry]

Shell Social Investment Lead - Skills

Jennifer Macdonald

{We need to diversify our workforce. We need events like today so they can see the opportunities that can be created in this space for them to enter these jobs.}

[The Music Hall]

Shell Social Investment Advisor

Mairi McKay

{The Music Hall is a brilliant venue. Shell recently moved its office in Aberdeen to Union Street, and so it's very local for us and it's great for us to feel that we're part of the community at the heart of Aberdeen.}

[Images of the interior and exterior of the Music Hall]

[Looking to the future]

Mintlaw Academy Depute Head Teacher

Ali Hynd

{I think it's important that we build the STEM skills that’s required so that these young girls can actually become innovators for the future.}

Mintlaw Academy

Holly Yule

{Since it's a male dominated industry, it'd be great for more girls to get into the workplace.}

NESCol Sponsored Initiatives Coordinator

Andy Maitland

{We like to show them, that it is possible that you can be a woman and work in the energy industry.}

[Someone is show giving a careers talk on the stage]

Shell Business Analyst

Harshada Deshmukh

{For the future for Girls in Energy, it looks really positive.}

[Students are shown giving a presentation on stage]

[Students are shown on stage at the prizegiving]

[About Shell’s social impact ambitions]

Shell Head of Corporate Relations

Madeline Whitaker

{Events like today and the Girls in Energy Conference and the Girls in Energy programme are right at the heart of our ambitions for Shell in the UK, which is about making the energy transition an opportunity for everyone.}