Career planning, as a student or an adult; plus the upcoming Science Slam in Luxembourg. Arnit Dey has two more years of High School left before he and his cohort  of global students have to decide what to study, where to go and what to do with the first part of the rest of their adult lives. Arnit himself was born in the UAE to an Indian family and now lives in Luxembourg. He feels that the upcoming decisions need to be spoken about more at this important juncture in life, which conflates education, peer and parental pressure and the simple heaviness of figuring out what to do in the future. Anneke Hudson is the in-house careers advisor at St. George’s International School. Anneke is half-English, half-Dutch, born in Kenya, raised there, in Zambia, South Africa, Oman, North America and England and is raising her own family here in Luxembourg.  And so, she knows what it feels like to be a ‘3rd culture kid’, a married mother abroad and an expat parent. Anneke first studied law and became an in-house banking solicitor in a City of London international corporate law firm. Quite quickly she realised this was not a career she enjoyed. After a gap to raise her children, Anneke took a Masters degree in Career Development and Coaching from the University of Warwick in the UK and became a registered Career Development Professional with the Career Development Institute in the UK. At St. George’s International School she helps students think about the word ‘career’ to encompass the lifelong journey through life, learning and work. “Your 'career' is the paid and unpaid roles which you undertake throughout a lifetime, including life roles, leisure activities, learning and work.” There are six core career development skills, relevant for any age: - Trying new things - Understanding yourself - Being open - Reflecting - Learning how to research - Networking These complement the six learning areas from the Career Development Institute Framework: - Grow throughout life - Explore possibilities - Manage career - Create opportunities - Balance life and work - See the big picture Dr Ann Kiefer is a mathematician by training, working as a STEM Expert at the Luxembourg Centre for Educational Testing (LUCET) at the University of Luxembourg. She leads a project called PITT (Programme for innovative teaching and training), where she develops science and maths lessons for secondary schools tailored to Luxembourg. Ann is also highly involved with science communication, from designing a maths costume for the Manneken Pis in Brussels https://www.lalibre.be/dernieres-depeches/belga/2020/07/20/des-chercheurs-de-la-vub-concoivent-un-costume-pour-manneken-pis-HJCWWYVOUNHLBIPMU6A2XDVM7Q/ to winning a number of science slams herself in Germany and Luxembourg. She also participates in Science Stand-Up Comedy https ://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=HpcEsVI8ccc Juan Aguilar is a digital archaeologist doing his PhD on the virtual recovery of a destroyed millennia-old cultural heritage site in Mosul, Iraq. Juan also won the Science Slam here in Luxembourg by explaining how he 3D-scanned and 3D reconstructed the presumed tomb of the Prophet Jonah which, until 2014, sat on an Assyrian palace (IG: #nebiyunusdigitalarchaeologicalproject ). He communicates his archaeological project work with short films. https://vimeo.com/829695470?share=copy https://history.uni.lu/team-juan-aguilar/ Ann and Jan are part of the Luxembourg Science Slam organisation team which is open to all on Friday, 4th October at 7pm in Cercle Cité. You can find the tickets here and videos of previous science slams here.  https://scienceslam.uni.lu/ Tickets : https://www.echo.lu/en/experiences/luxembourg-s-science-slam-5fQsxu Videos of previous slams : https://www.youtube.com/@luxdoc472/videos