{"id":1569,"date":"2016-03-15T12:35:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2016-03-16T09:14:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:14:51","slug":"zack-wins-tycoons-in-schools-ks4-award-and-highly-commended-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/2016\/03\/15\/zack-wins-tycoons-in-schools-ks4-award-and-highly-commended-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Zack wins Tycoons in Schools’ KS4 Award and Highly Commended Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teens\u00a02 Go\u00a0launched by 14-year-old Zack Griffin, won KS4 Award and the Highly Commended\u00a0award.<\/p>\n

Zack created a business that enables skilled teenagers to earn money sharing their expertise with peers and members of the\u00a0community.<\/p>\n

While Zack taught classes in computer coding, he trained others to deliver sessions in \u201cacademics, music and\u00a0sport\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zack said: \u201cIt feels really good to have won the highly commended award \u2013 I feel really proud to have been a part of the competition. I\u2019ve now got a lot more enterprising skills that will stand me in good stead for later on in\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

Tycoon in Schools is an annual competition that challenges youngsters to run their own real-life businesses using a loan of up to \u00a31000 provided by the Peter Jones Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Teens\u00a02 Go\u00a0launched by 14-year-old Zack Griffin, won KS4 Award and the Highly Commended\u00a0award. Zack created a business that enables skilled teenagers to earn money sharing their expertise with peers and members of the\u00a0community. While Zack taught classes in computer coding, he trained others to deliver sessions in \u201cacademics, music and\u00a0sport\u201d. Zack said: \u201cIt feels really … Continue reading Zack wins Tycoons in Schools’ KS4 Award and Highly Commended Award<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,5695,9575,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievement","category-confident-individuals","category-successful-learners","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Eastwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}