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I attended the Sky Black Heritage Undergraduate of the Year Celebration Day at Sky Campus, Osterley. Being in a room of Black undergraduate finalists from engineering, computing and business, alongside Sky engineers, product managers and executives who have already built careers in those spaces, makes something click. Representation matters not as a sentiment but as a mechanism: seeing it with your own eyes rewires what your brain classifies as achievable.
The event included a fireside chat with this year's winner Valerie Fiamavle and 2025 winner Nigel Danquah-Kuma, a campus tour of Sky's Osterley headquarters and a networking lunch. The conversations in the unstructured time mattered most: hearing how people navigated from university to a role they were excited about, what they wished they had known earlier, what they still find hard.
Sky's engineering teams work on broadcast infrastructure, streaming at scale, set-top box firmware, mobile apps and internal tooling. The intersection with my own interests (embedded firmware, full-stack web, systems) was closer than I expected. The Early Careers programme includes technology placements and graduate schemes with structured rotations.
Grateful to God for every open door. Grateful to everyone who has poured into this journey. Days like this are fuel.