The Year in Industry scheme is a great way to do this. There are placement opportunities with some very interesting companies, and they organise courses and social events with other local YINI people, which can really help.
http://www.etrust.org.uk/year_in_industry.cfm I did this 7 years ago, and was placed for a year at QinetiQ doing some pretty interesting engineering work. Would definitely recommend it. Steve On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Harry Percival <harry.perci...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > My cousing Maddy is thinking of doing a gap year before she goes off to do > Maths at uni. I was wondering if anyone had any interesting suggestions > for things to do on her year off? Internships, short and long, paid and > unpaid? Maths-related and STEM, but random left-field suggestions also > much appreciated? > > HP > > -- > ------------------------------ > Harry J.W. Percival > ------------------------------ > Twitter: @hjwp > Mobile: +44 (0) 78877 02511 > Skype: harry.percival > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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