At the Panevėžys bakery, high school students were interested in their careers and tasted bread

"Vilniaus duona" bakery was visited by gymnasium students from Juozas Balčikonis Gymnasium in this city with their career teacher Giedrė Valaitienė. The students learned that they can choose a career here from as many as 65 different specialties. This event is part of the Šešėliavimas.lt of the Lithuanian Junior Achievement career program.

Gymnasium students, who are looking for knowledge about what profession to choose in a few years, got acquainted with career opportunities here.

The Panevėžys bakery was introduced to the high school students by the head of this bakery , Marius Juška, who, together with his colleague Julija Štitilienė, showed the entire bakery and bread route, and led a tour.

Our bread sommelier, product development manager Snieguolė Šoblinskienė, shared interesting news in an inclusive way.

After the tour – sensory evaluation of bread

After inspecting the bakery and seeing the entire bread path, the gymnasium students came to the sensory evaluation of bread.

It is a bread tasting, when all aspects of bread are carefully evaluated during tasting: packaging, appearance, taste, smell, moisture, softness or fragility of slices, etc. indicators. The sensory assessment was conducted by our quality Viktorija Lėgaudaitė-Lydekaitienė, Viktorija Balčiūnienė and Olga Grebniovienė, the production shift manager of the Panevėžys bakery.

And later, Vilnius University of Applied Sciences also presented its professions, where you can learn food technology in order to choose a career path in baking bread. And he showed the impressive laboratories of the college, where there are plenty of practical classes.

The meeting was attended by Jurgita Lazdauskienė and Elena Greene, lecturers of the Department of Chemistry and Technology of the Faculty of Agrotechnology .

We have quite a few alumni of this college in Vilnius Bread. Therefore, we appreciate this cooperation.

Thank you to the gymnasium students, teachers and college for their participation, Jurga and Rasa for organizing, and colleagues for engaging stories, sensory assessment and excursion!