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Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day with Cisco Apprentices
International Women in Engineering Day 2018 (INWED18) is encouraging participants to show the world how they are ‘raising the bar’ in pursuit of more diversity in engineering. Our Apprenticeship programme…
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Cisco Apprentice Hotseat: James
This week we’re celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2018! Over the coming days we’re catching up with Cisco Apprentices (of past and present) to find out about their experiences in the…
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Cisco Apprentice Hotseat: Risha
What were your initial thoughts about doing an apprenticeship and what swayed you to apply? Apprenticeships weren’t very highly rated when I was considering my options, however I personally…
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Cisco Little Big Futures – Building IoT Resources to Inspire Students
The Little Big Awards started as a local programme called the Red Button Challenge with goals to engage and enthuse young people…
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Cisco Work Experience delivers the ‘Pathway to Your Future’
Each year at Cisco we welcome a host of young people into our offices to learn more about the IT industry, the roles that people at Cisco do every day and, in…
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How I spent my Time2Give
Giving Back: How I became involved in a study into using the Internet of Things in healthcare using Cisco’s Time2Give Programme For the last few weeks, I have been lucky…
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Leaderboard 2017: we’re closing in on £1.2 million raised in total!
It was a big year for Leaderboard, Cisco’s charity triathlon challenge. On 2nd July at Windsor’s Dorney Lake, 30 CEOs from across the UK were joined by hundreds of their…
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Kids in IT reaches its 5th Birthday
Among the Cisco Connected Women UK & Ireland board, is a core team of five people who run the Kids in IT programme – I am one of them. Having…
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Inspiring the next generation on International Girls in ICT Day
As a tech start-up, what could possibly be more terrifying than pitching to a potential new customer? How about presenting to a room full of a hundred teenage girls? That’s…
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Who will inspire the next generation if we don’t?
This week I’m at the Grace Hopper Celebration event. You can see my previous two blogs on this fantastic initiative here and here. In spite of significant efforts from multiple…
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