GEW 2010 launch in Hull

To-day [ Monday 15th November 2010 ] saw the first day of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Hull which was sponsored by the St Stephen's Centre, Hull Training, KC, Arco, the Bondholders and Hull City Council when over 150 pupils from Malet Lambert School in Hull listened to explorer and motivational speaker Miles Hilton Barber www.mileshilton-barber.com .

The pupils also undertook the Hull 'Carbon' Enterprise Challenge that saw the pupils come up with environmental friendly products. Students in groups of 5 worked enthusiastically throughout the day and by the end of the activity many had come up with some great ideas.

They had all produced an ideas sheet, setting out what their idea was and how it was going to be successful, another page about the likely competitors in their proposed market place and also a money matters page, setting out how much money their idea was going to produce, taking into account both their costs and revenue streams. Finally, and most challenging of all, they had to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges from local organisations. The four top teams were awarded a range of vouchers from High Street Stores sponsored by the Insurance Partnership, Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce, Mail News and Media and Jenkins Shipping Port Services that could be spent in the St Stephen's Centre in Hull

Eleven groups were invited to present these were Turbo Turner, U-Bot, Super Stopper, Historical Trails, Dress The Earth, Gym Lectricity, Eco - Exchange, Green Queens, HVB Cars, November Enterprise Group and Branch Out.



Winners

1 Historical Trails

2 Gym Lectricity

3Turbo Turner

3 Branch Out

Overall the first day of GEW 2010 was a great success and the kids certainly seemed to enjoy the day and learnt a great deal about enterprise and the environment. All the pupils received a copy of Hull’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 Dave Garbera’s new book Smilers Part Two Lessons in Enterprise


The pupils were joined by a delegation from the Institute of Directors (IoD) led by Alex Mitchell, the Head of Influencer Relations at the IoD and Alex Charlotte Britton Chair of IoD YDF who were very impressed by what they saw

Miles Hilton Barber said


"It was a privellege to launch Hull's Global Entrepreneurship Week Celebrations with pupils from Malet Lambert School who certainly were very innovative and enterprising throughout the day"


Stephen Logan Business Champion Malet Lambert School said


" As a school we think its very important to take part in the activities that take place every year in Hull to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week and we was very pleased to be the school that launched the week the pupils were very creative and enterprising."

Jim Harris St Stephen's Centre Manager said

" St Stephens were pleased to sponsor the first two days of Global Entreprenurshp Week in Hull and I am very impressed how enterprising the young people at this event were"


Sponsors of day One

St. Stephen's http://www.ststephens-hull.com/
Hull Training http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/
Youth Enterprse Bank http://www.youthenterprise.co.uk/