MAKE YOUR MARK 2009 - Malet Lambert Mon 16th November

A very green start to the week with the 2009 Make your Mark Challenge!

"What a great day! The enthusiasm and buzz from the day is still keeping me going!”

 

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Summary

165 fifteen and sixteen year olds from Malet Lambert School in east Hull took part in the launch of the Make Your Mark Challenge. This challenge is the UK’s largest enterprise competition for secondary schools and colleges and sees groups of students given a secret brief to come up with a business idea and then promote this to a group of judges. The secret brief unveiled this year was ‘Let local inspiration lead you to a cool creation’. This meant the students had to come up with a product or service using their local area to inspire them as well as producing a ‘cool’ creation i.e. a business which minimised its impact on the environment.

Students in groups of 5 worked enthusiastically throughout the day and by the end of the activity many had come up with some great ideas. They had all produced an ideas sheet, setting out what their idea was and how it was going to be successful, another page about the likely competitors in their proposed market place and also a money matters page, setting out how much money their idea was going to produce, taking into account both their costs and revenue streams. Finally, and most challenging of all, they had to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges from local organisations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After much deliberation and discussion the winning team was announced. The team was called CEA Appliances (Allannah Smith, Ellie Shepherd, Chloe Shepherd, Cassie Riley and Eleanor Mead) and they had designed a wind up kettle and wind up coffee and tea cups that were environmentally friendly.

Other Highlights

In line with the sustainable theme of the challenge, allstudents donned green t-shirts, and to prove that they were far from ‘carbon copies’ they all made their mark styling their clothing, as well as making their own unique environmental pledges on green balloons. There was some creative interation between students and members of the local business community, too.