From ideas to impact, experience how digital teams use technology, creativity, and problem-solving to tackle real business challenges.

Our one-week ICT & Digital Innovation Sprint gives you the opportunity to explore careers in digital technology while working collaboratively to solve a genuine business challenge.

Supported by digital professionals, you’ll experience how technology teams understand problems, generate ideas, develop concepts, build prototypes, test their thinking and present solutions. The programme uses an approach inspired by the Google Design Sprint methodology.

You’ll also explore areas including digital innovation, user-centred design, artificial intelligence, cyber security, data, software development, and emerging technologies. You don’t need any previous coding experience to take part.

• Why Choose digital innovation sprint?

  Technology is changing how we work, solve problems, and make decisions.

  At Sellafield, digital technologies including cyber security, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and software solutions support safety, efficiency, and decision-making.

  During your experience, you won’t just hear about digital careers. You’ll work as part of a team to tackle a genuine business challenge and explore how an idea can be developed into a potential solution.

  You’ll have opportunities to:

  • Explore how digital teams solve problems
  • Work collaboratively on a genuine business challenge
  • Discover emerging technologies and AI
  • Experience design thinking and user-centred approaches
  • Build and test a digital prototype
  • Present your solution to professionals
  • Discover different ICT and digital career pathways

• What you’ll experience

  Tackle a real business challenge: Work as part of a team to explore a genuine business challenge and consider how digital technology could help solve it.

  Understand people and problems: Explore users and stakeholders, carry out research and consider what people really need before developing a solution.

  Turn ideas into solutions: Use design thinking techniques to generate ideas, explore different concepts and decide which ideas to take forward.

  Build and test a prototype: Create wireframes and digital mock-ups, explore low-code and no-code tools and develop a prototype that can be tested with users.

  Pitch your ideas: Bring your team’s thinking together and present your prototype and recommendations, explaining the value of your solution and responding to questions.

• What you’ll gain

  By the end of your experience, you’ll have had opportunities to develop:

  • Problem-solving, exploring a challenge and considering possible solutions
  • Creativity, generating and developing new ideas
  • Teamwork, working collaboratively towards a shared goal
  • Communication, sharing your thinking and listening to others
  • Digital confidence, exploring different technologies and tools
  • User-centred thinking, considering problems from someone else’s perspective
  • Presentation skills, communicating and pitching your ideas
  • Adaptability, responding to feedback and refining your solution

  You’ll also gain insight into how digital teams solve real-world problems, experience innovation, and design-thinking techniques, and create a project experience that you can reflect on in the future.

  The programme also provides continued learning opportunities through the Sellafield Outreach Academy.

• Careers you could explore

  Digital careers aren’t just about coding.

  Technology teams bring together people with different skills and interests, from developing software and analysing data to understanding users, managing products and protecting organisations from cyber threats.

  Your experience could help you discover an interest in careers such as:

  • Software Development
  • Cyber Security
  • Data and Analytics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Product Management
  • User Experience Design
  • Business Analysis
  • Digital Project Management
  • Networks and Infrastructure
  • Technology Consulting

• Is the Digital Innovation sprint for me?

  This programme could be right for you if you:

  • Enjoy solving problems
  • Are curious about technology and how it’s used
  • Like developing new ideas
  • Enjoy working with other people
  • Are interested in AI, cyber, data, software, or digital innovation
  • Like creative as well as technical challenges
  • Want to understand how digital solutions are developed
  • Want to explore digital careers but aren’t sure which area interests you yet

  You don’t need to be a coder or already have technical experience. If you’re curious about technology, enjoy solving problems and want to experience how digital teams work, this programme gives you an opportunity to explore.