3M Careerwise Educational Resource – 3M, the global technology company

Progress:

What are you most likely to be doing in your spare time?

Playing sport

Playing computer games

Dancing/keeping fit

Listening/playing music

Making/creating things

Reading/watching films

Outdoor activities/exploring nature

Chatting with friends

Your school decides it’s going to cancel lessons for a week and everyone is going to do a school-wide project
to raise money for a new arts centre. How would you feel?

Relieved that you’ll be missing the lessons you don’t enjoy

Worried that you’re missing lessons and will fall behind in the curriculum

Excited about what you can do to raise money

Concerned about who you will work with and what will be involved

At the end of the week there will be a fundraising day where the school will sell products made by students and put on a show for the local community. Which of the following roles would you most like to do?

Be part of a team creating a physical product (products could be anything you can make and/or put together in a week e.g. cakes, cards, toys, pottery, picture frames, stalls selling recycled items collected from the local community such as clothing)

Create posters, flyers and emails encouraging the local community to visit the school and support the project

Telephone and visit shops and organisations in the local community to get their support for the project and see if they want to sponsor it

Organise where and how the teams will set up their products in the school

Visit people in the local community to make them aware of the day and sell tickets to the show

Be involved in the team putting on the evening show

The teachers insist that all students join or create a product-making team. How do you choose your team?

You try and organise all your friends so they’re in your team

You turn to your friends and see if they want to work in a group

You wait for someone to ask you to join them

You think about who would be the best people to work with on the project and ask them to form a team with you

Within the product-making team, which of the following roles would you most like to do?

Thinking of lots of different products that you could make and ways to improve the products your team end up making

Organising who in the team will do what tasks to turn the products into a reality

Working out how to make the product in the time available and what equipment will be required

Working out how much it will cost to make the products and what’s the minimum you should charge for them

Creating decoration for the stall and labels and packaging for the products

Collecting all the necessary equipment for the team, making sure it is used correctly and returning it to the appropriate places

Your group decides to make chocolates and the first batch is not a success. What would you do?

Organise a team meeting to talk about ways to improve the product

Think about what went wrong and ways to improve the product

Make another batch but create lots of variations of the product to see which versions work best

Try to persuade people to scrap the failing product and make something else

Your team needs to work out how much to charge for the chocolates and how to market them.
Which of these tasks would you rather do?

Carry out research on the internet and in shops to find out how much similar products of similar size sell for

Ask people on the street how much they would expect to pay for the product and find an average

Find out the cost of the ingredients, work out the most cost-effective way to make the product and the minimum you should charge

Making your product takes a lot more time than you had realised and it looks like you won’t make as many as expected.
How would you deal with the news that you’ll be making less money?

You organise a meeting about how to increase productivity

You decide to charge more for the chocolates you do make

You look for other ways to make money that are less time-consuming

You don’t care – the money was going to the school anyway

You notice that one person in your team is doing much less work than everyone else.
What would you do?

Upset that not everyone is contributing equally, you refuse to work on the project until everyone does their share

Ignore it and work harder to pick up the slack

Arrange for a team meeting where you raise your concerns

Have a quiet word with the person concerned and ask them to pull their weight

One of your customers complains that your chocolates made him/her ill. What would you do?

Deny all responsibility and insist it was something else they ate

Offer to refund the money they spent and pay them compensation

Check the other products to analyse if it’s a widespread issue

Contact other customers to see if they are also ill

The team that raises the most money for the school, gets to keep half the money they raise.
Will this motivate you to raise more money?

Yes

You are asked to get involved in the show at the end of this fundraising day. Which of the following roles would you
most like to do?

Write the script for a new play

Perform on stage

Organise and create costumes for the performers

Paint the set

Do the performers' make up

Organise stage props and make sure performers are ready on time

Play in the band

Do the lighting and sound effects

Create the programmes

Put up posters, get publicity and sell tickets

Welcome people as they arrive and sell programmes

Set up the room and clean up afterwards

Collect and count the money from ticket sales and work out how many tickets you can sell

Prepare the drinks and food for the interval

At the interval a drinks table collapses and there is food, drink and broken glass all over the floor.
Which of the following roles would you be most likely to do?

Quickly clean up the mess and calm down people who are upset

Find out what happened and fill in an accident report

Make a list of everything that was broken or damaged and work out the cost of damages to be paid for with the show’s profits

Work out why the table collapsed and try to fix it

Congratulations! Your team has won and raised the most money. You’ve been asked to present why your product was so successful to the rest of the school and teach them how to make your product. What would you rather do?

Collect background information on similar products and analyse sales figures to work out what contributed to your success

Decide what information should go into the presentation

Design the presentation slides

Give the presentation