Upcycling Business Challenge Event and Results!

As mentioned in an earlier blog post - this year the Art Department decided to become a part of Business Challenge Event that is held by the Rotherham Youth Enterprise. The competition was called "The Upcycling Event" and it consisted of the students generating ideas on how they could recycle found materials in a unique, innovative and professional manner.

Patricia Burke came into the Art Department for a session in order to help the Art students on how to complete the business side of the competition. We had one student in the team who was studying Business but a part from Ella Shields, the other students have not gained experience in Business so this workshop was incredibly beneficial.

 Team Name: Luxury Lino
Members: Charlie Yates, Megan Strutt, Lauren Oxley, Leah May and Ella Shields

Initial Presentation

There were 11 teams that presented their ideas to a panel at Thomas Rotherham College. The panel then decided which three teams would attend the final event at the Rockingham Professional Development Centre. Luxury Lino came 1st place at this point in the competition as the judges thought the idea was innovative, feasible and well planned.



The Event

During the event at the Rockingham Professional Development Centre, each team were given an A1 display board which had three sides to it. The teams had to showcase their ideas and plans along with the products on these display boards and tables. Once each team was ready to present their ideas in front of their tables, the countdown begun. The teams had to present their ideas eight times to eight different groups of judges! That is a lot of talking for one day! At first the teams were nervous but once they got into the flow, they gave confident and well prepared presentations. Each of the presentation were to last for 15 minutes each which included time for the judges to ask relevant questions to the teams. Once the final presentation had finished, it was lunch time which the students got to enjoy a huge buffet of goodies! During lunch, the judges discussed the ideas and presentations with one another so they could allocate the prizes.









The Judges Critique

The judges said 'The team should be really proud of their performances on the day and what they achieved'.

Positives

• Fab eco-friendly idea and a sellable product
• Confident team work
• Super presentation with great graphics
• Good research and well planned
• Room to expand
• Can see the big impact on the environment
• “I’ve placed my order”
• “Would buy”

Things to work on

• Would have liked to see an insert in their cards
• Think about the quality of the product

The Results

Luxury Lino won 'Best Team Presentation' and £10 each. Congratulations guys!



We would also like to say a big well done to our very own Nicole Scarfe who won 3rd place and the 'Best Business Plan' award with the Business Studies team.

Artist of the Month | November 2016

Here are this months artists that have really impressed us!

AL Fine Art - Beth Harper

AL Graphics - Jenson Barber

AL Photography - Beth Harper

A2 Fine Art - Caitlin Boyle

A2 Graphics - Jade Bradley

A2 Photography - Sohail Khalil

Shaun Edwards Titans Academy Training Session

Welsh national team defensive coach and rugby league player Shaun Edwards recently ran a training session at TRC for our Titans Academy players. This session was photographed by our very own Leah May and Briony Canning!

These photo's were consequently used in the official Titans Match Day Programme:

Well done girls!

Upcycling Business Challenge 2016

Four of our A2 students recently took part in Rotherham Youth Enterprise's Upcycling Business Challenge. The competition required students to:

1. 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)
2. Plan a sustainable business idea - show how your product can reduce waste and have a positive impact on the environment
3.  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!

Sky Arts Master of Photography

Master of Photography is the first ever televised talent contest purely for photography. It brought together photographers from all over Europe, and the challenges throughout the 8 weeks were set in different cities across the continent. For photography students in particular - this is show is brilliant! It focuses greatly on the concept behind a photograph, as well as the technical ability of the photographer. Each chosen photograph is accompanied by the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and lens used. And each episode features a famous professional photographer as a guest judge. This programme is really great for inspiration, learning techniques and tricks, and finding interesting photographers that you may have never seen or heard of before! The first series is on Sky On Demand if you're interested in catching up on it, and series 2 will be airing in 2017.

 

Artist of the Month | October 2016

Congratulations to October's artists of the month! You've really impressed us, keep up the good work!

AL Fine Art - Esme Hadrill-Selman

AL Graphic Communication - Megan Deakin

AL Photography - Ally Boldan

A2 Fine Art - Victoria Ward

A2 Graphic Communication - Humairaa Hussain

A2 Photography - Emily Hattersley

 

Yorkshire Sculpture Park Trip 2016

This years AL students went on their YSP trip on the 19th of October, and it was surprisingly a wonderfully dry and sunny day! They produced some brilliant drawings and photographs, and were a credit to the college the whole day.

The 5 groups split into two teams to take turns in the underground gallery. One half started off around the park taking photographs and life drawing of the permanent sculptures such as the Henry Moore bronze sculptures. Then went on to lunch and were actually able to sit outside as it was so beautifully sunny! Meanwhile the other half spent 2 hours in and around the underground gallery looking at the work of Not Vital. The two teams swapped over and before we knew it it was time to head home! 

Thank you to all our students for making this such a lovely day for everyone involved, we hope you all found the experience valuable and hope you all enjoyed yourselves!

      

The current artist exhibiting in the underground gallery is leading sculptor Not Vital, in his first major exhibition in the UK. The exhibition includes paintings and works on paper, indoor pieces made from plaster, silver, gold, marble, glass and coal, and outdoor sculptures in stainless steel and bronze.