Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
Wishing you all the very, very best for 2012 ; )
North Lanarkshire Council Learning and Leisure Services and The City of Glasgow College are delighted to announce that the Design Enterprise Challenge, a project that delivers creativity, innovation and opportunity for students within North Lanarkshire secondary schools, has been granted the Inspire mark by the London 2012 Inspire Programme.
The Design Enterprise Challenge has been a valuable feature of North Lanarkshire Enterprise and Art and Design programme for a number of years. Teams of Art and Design and Business Education students from secondary schools all over North Lanarkshire are given the opportunity to compete against each other using the facilities and expertise of the City of Glasgow College to produce and market a creative outcome.
Over the years, teams have been tasked with diverse challenges. This session the students will be working on an exciting new project themed around the Olympic values of respect, excellence and friendship and the Paralympic values of courage, determination, inspiration and equality.
The London 2012 Inspire programme recognises innovative and exceptional projects that are directly inspired by the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Seb Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games said: “The Inspire programme is ensuring the legacy of the 2012 Games starts now as projects like the Design Enterprise Challenge are enabling young people in North Lanarkshire to make positive life changes”.
Well done to the teams who are through to this year’s Dragons’ Lair final…
Dalziel High School – Ozone Host
Bellshill Academy – Grassias
St Margaret’s High School – GiG It
St Margaret’s High School – I pocket
Abronhill High School – Keasy
Our Lady’s High School – Cumbernauld – Bo Peep
Thank you to all of the teams who submitted entries for the Dragons’ Lair. The competition received many more entries than previously and the standard of entries has been very high this year.
We would like to wish all the finalists the best of luck and look forward to hearing them pitch their business idea to the Dragons!
For more information, click on the screenshot below.
We now have a new Enterprise Showcase Blog. This Blog will act as a vehicle for pupils to share the Enterprising work they are doing to develop their skills for Life, Learning and Work.
If you would like your school to feature on the showcase, please email Lynn Taylor on First Class.
The Blog currently sits in Glow, so you’ll need your Glow login to access the site. www.bit.ly/pupilenterprise
Unfortunately it’s too late to join this year’s Micro-Tyco Challenge. But – it’s well worth finding out about with an eye to joining in next year. The WildHearts website is brilliant and has many clips, like the one from Sir Tom Hunter featured here, that can be used as a stimulus with pupils. Mike Jackson who runs Micro-Tyco is an absolute inspiration.
Micro-Tyco is the exciting new concept from WildHearts. Its vision is nothing less than the ignition of the spirit of enterprise across our whole culture, from our leading corporates to our universities, secondary and primary schools, and even nurseries. It is an enterprise challenge that brings our whole society together, reconnects us to one another, to what really matters, and compels us to collectively raise the bar in what we believe is possible for ourselves and our culture.
It inspires our companies to excel and our children to believe, creates compassionate global citizens and will inspire the leaders our country deserves.
Micro-Tyco is the product of over ten years experience in enterprise education and entrepreneurial success and is designed to invigorate our companies, challenge the dependency culture and stimulate self-reliance and enterprise. It is fast, fun and furious, forcing contestants to break out of their limited self perceptions and comfort zones. Micro-Tyco inspires the spirit of enterprise in its purest form and rewards participants with the knowledge that in business, if they can succeed at Micro-Tyco, they can succeed at anything.
How does it work? Micro-Tyco will run every November. Teams ‘apply’ to WildHearts for ‘seed capital’; a micro-loan of £1. Once the clock starts on November 1st they have one month to turn it into as much money as possible. On November 30th the team with the most money wins. There are only two rules: teams cannot gamble and transactions must be legal.
Who can enter? School, colleges, universities, clubs and companies can enter teams to Micro-Tyco. Each team must have no more than 5 members but each organisation can enter as many teams as they wish. Companies compete against companies, schools against schools and Universities and Colleges against each other, with one winner from each group.
Companies are encouraged to partner with a local school. In this partnership the teams remain separate but become allies who collaborate to exchange knowledge, encouragement and pool resources. Business people will inspire children and be inspired in return. The learning process is further enhanced by online video mentoring from many of our business leaders who support the WildHearts vision.
The competition keeps you sharp, the deadline keeps the pressure on. Micro-Tyco does not care about your qualifications or where you are from. Its apparent simplicity is deceptive. The low value of the £1 loan entices you to get involved but then takes you on a journey where the challenge grows with the money. It is a seed that reveals your inner wealth and helps you discover talents you never knew you had. As the money grows, so will you.
The money created from Micro-Tyco will then be invested by WildHearts in micro-loans to help the world’s poorest people work their own way out of poverty with dignity and self respect. As a result participants will go from becoming dynamic wealth creators to global ethical investors. Micro-Tyco’s gift to you will be the knowledge that once you release your talents the whole world benefits.
Unfortunately it’s too late to join this year’s Micro Tyco Challenge. But – it’s well worth finding out about with an eye to joining in next year. The WildHearts website is brilliant and has many clips, like the one from Sir Tom Hunter featured here, that can be used as a stimulus with pupils. Mike Jackson who runs Micro Tyco is an inspiration.
Micro-Tyco: Invest in yourself, invest in your company, invest in our children, invest in our community.
For more information click here
Is your establishment planning anything for this week’s Global Entrepreneur focus? If you are, please tell us about it. We are designing a new Blog to showcase good Enterprise practice from around our Authority and we need your help. From ante-preschool to S6, we want to show and share good practice.
Please send any photos or clips to Lynn Taylor on First Class.
The Design Enterprise Challenge has been a valuable feature of North Lanarkshire’s Enterprise and Art and Design programme for a number of years. Teams of students from secondary schools all over North Lanarkshire are given the opportunity to experience a design and enterprise challenge within the City of Glasgow College. The teams consist of both Art and Design and Business Education students working together to produce and market a creative outcome. Over the years teams have been tasked with diverse challenges, from designing packaging for the Coca Cola Company to creating promotional products for the 2011 International Children’s Games. As highlighted in Building The Curriculum 4, Curriculum for Excellence can best be delivered through partnership working. The Design Enterprise Challenge delivers this through the City of Glasgow College and North Lanarkshire sharing a common understanding around skills development and application. Together they plan and deliver experiences which meet the needs of individual young people, actively engaging them with opportunities for skills development in real life contexts.
2012 Challenge Arrangements
The Teams:
Teams consist of 6 S3 pupils accompanied by a teacher. The split of Business Education students to Art and Design students should be 2:4.
Briefing Morning:
The briefing morning will be held on Tuesday 31st January 2012 in Kildonan Street.
The briefing will consist of two parts and clearly outline the research the teams will be required to carry out prior to the Challenge Day.
Teams will be issued with guidelines on the format that their research should be presented in.
The City of Glasgow College staff will further illustrate this by showing the pupils examples of their students’ mood boards and workbooks
Challenge Day:
The Challenge will be fully
revealed on the morning of the Challenge Day of Wednesday 14th March. It has been decided not to fully reveal the challenge until this time to ensure originality and a level playing field for teams on the Challenge Day.
Teams will have ICT access in order to carry out any further background research information they may need for the specific task. Business Education pupils will be charged with recording the design process using digital media in order to produce a promotional piece for the Presentation Evening.
Presentation Evening:
The Presentation Evening will take place on Tuesday 27th March.
If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Lynn Taylor on First Class.
Education Scotland has made video clips available to download on a whole host of topics. We especially like the World of Work clips where people talk about various jobs and what they entail.
Click on the pic for more information.
November is Enterprise Month.
Here’s a wee nugget of good stuff from last year from Education Scotland. Packed full of ideas and resources.
Click on the pic for the link.
Funding Available – Click on the Picture for more details!
| Creative Enterprise Fund Launched for Young Entrepreneurs |
| The Creative Enterprise Fund is designed to support young people in Scotland, aged 15-22, with activities which allow them to flourish within the creative industries. It aims to encourage enterprising and innovative ideas and assist these young people to become creative leaders.
Funding is available to individuals and groups. The maximum amount available to individuals is £200 and the maximum available to groups is £750. The Fund can support a variety of creative ventures. Examples of eligible projects include:
Young people living in Scotland aged 15-22 are eligible. Applications must be from Young Scot cardholders and include the Young Scot cardholder’s Young Scot card number. If applying as a group, a Young Scot cardholder must fill in the application. Groups are classed as three or more people and at least two-thirds of any group should be aged 15-22 years. The Creative Enterprise Fund Grants Committee meets every two months. The next deadline for applications is Monday 14 November 2011. |
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