Buddying the winning team – Waldegrave School (14-16)
December 10th, 2008 by PhilAt yesterday’s Challenge final I had a cracking day buddying the eventual winners of the 14-16 category – Waldegrave School in Twickenham.
Now I could be forgiven for being biased… but I kinda knew they were going to win! Who wouldn’t want their idea which was an interactive console (a little like a Tamagochi) called ‘My Little Athlete’ which you have to feed and train!? The reaaaaaally cool thing is that you can compete with other My Little Athletes (and swimmers and cyclists) using the power of bluebooth to see who had trained the best!
In fact I was so confident they were going to win I recorded a post on the Challenge website saying who I thought would be the Top Banana, which you can watch it here.
So well done the girls and the school and the Richmond EBP and me for buddying them!
January 16th, 2009 at 11:30 am
I don’t think this school should of won.. i beleive the judges pretty much only chose them because they were a good representive for england since they were from london… Their idea isn’t at all realistic and their business won’t start up. Plus isn’t it a bit too much like a tamagatchi?? And the name also copies several different business.
Sorry, but this is the truth!
January 16th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
I’m sorry that you feel the final decision made by the judges was unfair. We engage experienced business people and representatives from education on our judging panels, all of whom receive a full briefing prior to the competition. Teams are scored using the same judging criteria at each stage of the competition. Judges make their decision based on the pitch, the quality of the idea in response to the brief as well as the three documents submitted during Enterprise Week. For the National Final, the team’s radio ad is also taken into consideration. You will be able to listen to this online soon and we will be following the team’s progress with their idea.