Chilled Education has forged new links with a national charity that connects young people to businesses with the aim of giving those young people the skills, experience and confidence they need in the changing world of work. The charity, Young Enterprise, invited CFA Director General Karin Goodburn to record two video presentations giving an idea of the range of opportunities, offer tips and explain why the industry offers the coolest careers. The videos can be seen here.  October 2022  

  The summer break gave Chilled Education the chance to revisit some of its favourite Store Cupboard Science experiments. A special selection, titled Seven Weeks of Food Science Fun was sent out to CEd’s Cool Schools ready to share with everyone before schools broke up. The varied selection included making ice cream, extracting DNA from summer strawberries as well as new experiments: ‘puffy paint’, changing the colour of tea (left) and preparing fish to eat, without heat. The summer experiments, and some fun ideas for Halloween and Christmas can be found on the CEd website. October 2022

 It’s been a while since the Chilled Education team were out meeting students and teachers. So it was a pleasure to have Greencore colleagues join CFA’s Charlotte Patrick at the University of Northampton’s STEAM event back in June. The event showcased careers in the sectors of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths to primary and secondary schools. The success of the day was based on its interactive sessions and Greencore’s team enjoyed challenging the young students on the many elements behind sandwich production. As Charlotte explains: “Sandwich making could be seen as a relatively straightforward activity. But we demonstrated this […]