On 3rd July 2013, a group of exceptional students from Northwold Primary took a valuable step into the professional world of loyalty management in a day of enterprise supported by the experts at Aimia.
“The idea of loyalty management is really clever and my product has loyalty feature too!”
The students were given the creative freedom [...]
Is it a bird, is it a plane… or is it a fire-breathing dragon? Imagination reaches new heights when you work together as a team.
School trips can provide a gateway to many exciting new experiences. On their trip to the top law firm, Wragge & Co, the pupils from Audley, Yardley and Forestdale were [...]
The next generation of confectionaries? A wise investment.
The assembled panel of volunteers and judges for the final presentations were the dream panel for any budding entrepreneur – professional investment decision makers! Except this wasn’t a funding pitch for some career changers’ startup – it was groups of 10 and 11 year olds who had [...]
Enterprise: It’s not Just a Money Making Game
On Monday, Years 7 – 11 students at Drapers Academy learnt that enterprise isn’t just about making money, as they took part in their third EE challenge day of the year: The Social Entrepreneur.
The students’ challenge for the day was to work in teams to set up projects [...]
Social Entrepreneurship at Leyton Sixth Form College
On Friday 21st June Year 12 students at Leyton Sixth Form College (LSC) in North East London took on our award-winning Social Enterprise Challenge. Working in small teams students set about exploring the issues affecting members of their community and how their interests and talents could be used [...]
On 28th June 2013, students from across East London came together to take on a presentation skills challenge at the welcoming Liverpool street offices of RBS.
The day started off with the students taking on the role of some very young interviewers, as they grilled the RBS volunteers about their employment and academic history. [...]
Ideas might be ten a penny, but the right idea in the right time and place is of incalculable value.
Pupils from Downsell Primary School found out a little of the value of their ideas at RKCR Y&R, using their enterprise skills to develop an advertising campaign. RKCR Y&R are an ideas company, selling ideas [...]
What was your favourite sweet as a child? How many did you eat; hundreds, thousands, millions? Can you think of any way to improve on the basic idea of your favourite sweet?
These were the founding questions of the challenge day that pupils from Southern Road, Woodmansterne and Curwen primary schools engaged with at the [...]
Forestale redesign the wheel (well, the lunchbox) at Bromford
Year 6 students from Forestdale Primary school in Frankley, South Birmingham visited leading social housing provider Bromford Group today to present their ideas for the latest lunch boxes. Working alongside Bromford volunteers: Elaine, Jane and Julie Ann, the students unleashed their creativity coming up revolutionary product [...]
On 19th June 2013, a group of students from Lilian Baylis and Southfields Community College were brought into the stunning offices of IBM in a day full of innovation and creativity.
“The volunteers gave me the confidence I was lacking”
The students were given a chance to quiz expert IBM volunteers about working for the prestigious firm, [...]
