Four of our A2 students recently took part in Rotherham Youth Enterprise's Upcycling Business Challenge. The competition required students to:
- Design an upcycled product that a) has a different use, b) adds value and quality c) can be sold to your target customer group(s)
- Plan a sustainable business idea - show how your product can reduce waste and have a positive impact on the environment
- Make a short presentation of their upcycling idea to judges from the business community, employers and local media
The team: Leah May, Charlie Yates, Lauren Oxley, Ella Shields, Megan Strutt
Competitions like this are great experience for students to stretch their creativity and apply it to real life scenarios and situations. We really encourage students to involve themselves in these things, as they're not only something great to put on your CV and personal statement, they're really fun as well! And we love to see what you come up with, our art students never fail to impress!
And impress us they did, by coming 1st in the internal judging! Coming first over two business teams, well done guys!
Their products were lino printed Christmas cards using recycled cardboard boxes from reprographics, scrap paper, and recycled off-cuts of lino from the department.
The final is on Friday the 18th of November so I will keep you all updated. Until then, good luck to our team!
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