Around 70 students stepped into Paf’s head office in Mariehamn to participate in grit:lab’s first piscine. The piscine is a four-week intensive introductory period to the education and at the same time the final step in the selection process.

The main goal of the tech education that grit:lab offers is to train 50 persons to become the much needed tech talents of the future. During the spring, the final step in the selection process is held when the piscine takes place at the grit:lab campus inside Paf’s head office.

“I’m totally blown away by the grit that the participants have shown during the first day. After a full introductory day, they all eagerly jumped on to the 01Edu learning plattform,” says Anna-Lena Svenblad, Paf’s development director & co-director for grit:lab.

During the four-week piscine, applicants will learn the basics of coding, gain an understanding of what the education will require from them and get challenged to work together in order to succeed.

“The best possible scenario and outcome for us is that we have so many good and eager participants, that it will be hard to choose who gets to start at grit:lab,” says Ludvig Winberg, Paf’s Corporate Communication Manager.