Team Validus Wins Summer Intern Challenge
Last month over 100 summer interns from nine companies took part in The Centre on Philanthropy’s Community Day Facebook Photo Challenge, with the team from Validus emerging as the Challenge’s winner following a heated competition to garner votes for the most team ‘likes’.
The Community Day paired teams of interns from XL Group, Validus, KPMG, ACE Group, Butterfield Bank, Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd., PwC, Ernst & Young Ltd. and Catlin Insurance Company Ltd. Activities included meal preparation, landscaping, painting to beautify buildings, cleaning boat lofts, cleaning Sea Turtle enclosures and Cup Match Tag Day preparations.
Intern teams were ‘challenged’ to take a photo that best represented their project and their company and to submit it to The Centre on Philanthropy’s Facebook page. They then invited friends and family to ‘like’ their photo with the team with the most ‘likes’ winning the Challenge.
Winning summer interns from Validus show the CoP bags and prizes they earned in The Centre on Philanthropy’s [CoP] Community Day Facebook Photo Challenge. The interns teamed up with Project 100 performing landscaping duties, planting flowers and a vegetable garden, cleaning away debris and generally beautifying the garden surrounding Rose Villa.
From left to right: Tori Burgess, Magic Boyles, Luigi Cacace, Helen Crisson, Ashley Govia, Rylee MacDonald, Kayla Johnson, JayLynn Hines, Ben Morley, Sarah Maybury Missing: Dorian Armstrong.
Team Validus achieved 310 ‘likes’ narrowly defeating Team XL who won an honourable mention as Runners Up with 281 ’likes’. Votes had to be cast by 1:00pm on Tuesday, July 31st.
Runners Up Team XL teamed up with The Eliza Dolittle Society preparing much needed meals for local feeding centres.
From left to right: Kevin Minors, Megan Berry, Ceilidh Blood, Ernestyne Macapagal, Nicholas Brewer, Sierrah Raynor Missing: Ryan Whiting, Rowan Border, Hannah Gibbons.
“This is the third consecutive Facebook Challenge we have run for our summer interns, their friends and family to highlight our community volunteer programme. They can really learn a lot from the programme while also having fun at the same time,” said Jennifer Pitcher, Volunteer Programme Coordinator for The Centre on Philanthropy.
CoP’s Community Days give local charities the opportunity to submit a proposal for a volunteer project that can be completed in one day. The Centre on Philanthropy then recruits participation from companies, and projects are chosen based on interest expressed by the employees.
The Centre on Philanthropy would like to thank all the interns, their companies and charities for participating in the Community Day and the Facebook Challenge.
To see the photos from the Challenge visit their Facebook page:
The charities and intern team pairings were: XL Group with The Eliza Dolittle Society; Validus with Project 100; KPMG with Somersfield Academy; the ACE Group with WindReach Bermuda; Butterfield Bank with The Bermuda Sea Cadet Association; Endurance Specialty Insurance Ltd. with National Maritime Museum; PwC with The Eliza Dolittle Society; Ernst & Young Ltd. with the Bermuda Museum Aquarium and Zoo and Catlin Insurance Company Ltd. with Family Centre.
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