"It was a pleasure partnering with Digdata on the first series of data challenges. It’s the first time our team has been involved in an initiative like this and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience and can’t wait to run these again. Rachel was on hand at all stages to provide us with guidance and to make sure we were building a challenge that was relevant to age groups from 13 all the way up to University students. A huge thank you to all the students who took part, we hope we inspired you to consider a career in data!"

“Hi, I'm Alex and I worked on the "first step" session. It was great to see such a big turnout of enthusiastic, budding future marketing scientists interested in a career working with data. I really enjoyed the challenge of producing work for a different audience and the session itself was fun and full of lots of energy!”

"Hi, I'm Kate and I worked on the "first step" session. I'd never worked with a group of this age before so the whole experience was a new challenge for me! I had so much fun during the session as everyone was extremely interactive and energetic. Overall, it was great to have the chance to work with so many young and excited data enthusiasts."

"Hi, I'm Pat and I worked on the "Next Step" session. It was such a great pleasure to see so many young data experts so engaged with the challenge! I really enjoyed the experience of working with the students and sharing what we do at work to an audience so curious and talented! Looking forward to more opportunities like this in the near future"

I find myself coming back to Digdata's career challenges because it is a safe space for me to explore and to further develop my personal qualities. I have participated and enjoyed all challenges so far but the highlight is definitely in the online meetings; the staff team is inspiring, helpful and the student live chat is full of energy and enthusiasm. Through this experience, I have improved self motivation, flexibility, independence and confidence.

It has been truly inspiring working with Rachel and Digdata over the last few months. Digdata’s passion to help students, from across different educational stages, to consider a career in data was very evident throughout the partnership. All LBG colleagues who supported the career challenges and events found the experience to be really rewarding and enjoyed the opportunity to connect with so many students from across the entirety of the UK. The partnership enabled us as an organisation to share our passion for data and analytics and to help students understand how the subjects they learn can be tangibly applied to solve real world problems. Opportunities like this, were we can engage directly with students, enables us to demystify what a career in data looks like, to show the breadth of opportunities open to students and to inspire students to really dig data!

"I had great fun completing the CACI live online career challenge, it really made me want to pursue this further after university.
I am definitely going to get involved in the next opportunity available!"

“I found the challenge quite cool as I was able to use my analysing skills to the test to be able to decide what to do and why.”

“I loved it!”

“I thoroughly enjoyed interpreting such a large dataset and offering recommendations!”

"Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the BT work experience challenge, I found it very interesting and informative."

“Firstly, I would like to start by saying thank you so much for the BT Step Up Career Challenge session last week -
I really enjoyed myself and found the content and project very interesting!”

“Thank you very much to Rachel and the team for this opportunity!”

“Thank you for a great session. My son really enjoyed taking part in the BT Live Online Career Challenge. It was a fabulous way to gain virtual work experience and had him thinking outside the box. It’s helped him consider a career path that he’s never thought about before, as the skills required for a career in data are so numerous.”

“CACI has supported the DigData programme to enable us to reach out to the secondary school age groups. Without realising it, they have the foundations of a data education, but lack the industry framing of what a career in data might entail. In our everyday lives, data affects everything we do, the adverts we see, the products we are offered, online and offline, and the communications we receive. The data industry, especially consumer data, is coming of age now that everyday people are comfortable with their personal data use, in exchange for something return.”

"This is an excellent opportunity for our business to play a part in educating young people about the different job opportunities available to them. Data is used in a broad and varied range of careers and can be daunting for people to look into. This partnership enables us to provide insight and knowledge so students with a wide range of backgrounds and experience can prepare for the future. Digdata has a wealth of knowledge in this area and we are excited to work with them to get more young people thinking about different careers within our industry.”

“BT has a long history of inspiring young people into exciting careers and providing practical support to help them achieve their goals. Now more than ever we are committed to help build a more diverse digital talent pipeline for the UK. There are many intersections where we make a difference; with young people still in school, at uni and those about to enter the workforce. Digdata helps us reach young people of different ages and across the UK to excite and inspire them about careers in digital and data.”