Published 18th January 2010
As part of their BTEC coursework, a project undertaken to produce a variety of different design solutions to use land fill products, wins a competition. Students Sophie Persaud and Heather Lucas wrote:
“We had to present our work to a panel of judges in our classroom and one group was put forward to attend the Global Entrepreneurship week at the Institute of Directors on the 20th November 2009,to present their idea.
Our idea was to reduce plastic milk bottles going to landfill by transforming them into lighting and also creating craft packs for making your own lighting and accessories, which too us through to the next round.
We arrived and following a chance to get acquainted with pupils from other colleges, we were given information about others businesses and how they became successful, which was insightful and inspiring.
After a brief lunch each college presented their work to a successful business mentor who gave feed back on the idea and helped us improve our presentations. Once the session was over each group had to present their final presentation to another business owner before a winner was selected.
Geoff Pine, Principal at Greenwich Community College announced the winner and it was us! We were amazed, we couldn’t believe it, and we were all so excited. Once the announcement was made we had to present our idea to the whole room, which was extremely nerve wracking.
We were then introduced to Mr. Bill Morrow who is the co-founder of Angels Den, a company that arranges events for entrepreneurs to present ideas to the ‘Angels’ who are a set of investors. We have our chance to present to the Angels later in January which we cannot wait for”.
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