Between the the 9th November to the 27th 2009 Buckinghamshire New University hosted Enterprise Festival. During this time there was many activities to take part in and to go and see. These were designed to get the students involved, work as a team and get their minds thinking more business like. There was lots of different activities which students could participate in such the apprentice challenge, The 24 Hour challenge, My great business idea and many more.
The Apprentice Challenge
The aim behind this challenge was to encourage students business planning, marketing, organisation, selling skills, time keeping etc. The challenge had three steps which were:
- Sell doughnuts and make the largest profit
- Promote and sell products of your choice to the public and make as much money on a market stall in the Eden Shopping Centre
- Stage an event
Jane (who organised the apprentice challenge) came to one of our lectures and gave us a talk about Enterprise week and the benefits of taking part. After the talk majority of the class wanted to get involved and decided to get into groups and the competition. On the first day of the competition we had positioned ourselves in High Wycombe town to sell our doughnuts, as there was 12 other groups selling similar doughnuts we found it a challenge to sell our ones as majority of the locals kept on saying "sorry we just bought some from the other groups" sadly my group didn't get through to the next round however the group that did when the whole competition where my class friends.
A few of my friends and I volunteered to help Ruth on the day of one of the events of Enterprise week, this event was called 'Telling it like it is' it involved Bucks graduates talking on a panel about their experiences and challenges they faced while studying at the university this was then followed by questions & answers session. I really enjoined myself on this day as we all got to know the ex students and they was so helpful and full of advise which inspired me to be like them in three years time. :)
The second panel were people from the industry these people were:
Sue Elms- Millwood Brown
Sue Ullerman- Mediacom
George hudson- burston Marteller
Rick Haslam- RAPP
Matthew Chapman- Billets
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