Eco bird feeder wins national enterprise challenge
Published: 08 December, 2010
A team from Plymouth College have beaten more than 27,000
students nationally to win UK Enterprise's Entrepreneurship
Challenge. The UV bird feeder concept and business plan has
landed the team - Henry Joce, Megan Woodrow, Sarah Northmore, Ryan
Hart, Abi Smith and Declan Reed - a trip to London to meet Dragon
Den's Peter Jones to discuss investment. They will also
receive video mentoring from one of the UK's top entrepreneurs to
help them develop their product ideas.
"This is a fantastic result", said Economics and Business
Studies teacher, Jonathan Shields. The team have spent many hours
in DT working on bird feeder designs and technology. It has
been a real team effort."
The Enterprise Challenge (formerly Make Your Mark, which
Plymouth College won last year) is the school's tenth national
business competition title in ten years, making it officially the
most successful school in the country in this area.
The six Enterprise Challenge students are part of the 25-strong
Young Enterprise Company, Ecovation. The company had a bumper
day at Plymouth's Christmas Market, raking in nearly £1000 and
selling out of the bird feeder in just one day.