Archive for the ‘MYM Challenge’ Category

The Adventures of Sam…

July 8th, 2010 by martha

is an exciting new book series created by Make Your Mark Challenge regional finalists from Highcliffe School.
The 6th form students from Dorset came third in their South West Regional Final and instead of being disapointed they hadn’t won they were encouraged that they had an exciting business idea and have spent the past few months Read more…

Yorkshire & Humber Schools Meet up to Make Their Mark!

May 12th, 2010 by Diane Beckett

Held at Xscape in Castleford, Make Your Mark pupils and teachers had the opportunity to get together and celebrate the range of enterprise experiences they have been involved with including the Make Your Mark Club, Make Your Mark With a Tenner and the Make Your Mark Challenge. 
Bringing together schools from across the region including Laisterdyke Read more…

North East Students Get Out of the Classroom to Make Their Tenners Grow!

April 7th, 2010 by Amelia

An entire school of enterprising students from Blakeston School in Stockton turned their assembly hall into a bustling marketplace for the day as part of the national Make your Mark with a Tenner competition, and I was there to witness the madness! During the last Friday of the Tenner Challenge Month all 585 students from Blakestone School were Read more…

Thrash Metal Meets the Y.M.C.A at the home of X Factor Winner in North East Tenner Challenge Event!

March 29th, 2010 by Amelia

Ten enterprising students at Newcastle College showed they have what it takes to be the next Simon Cowells by pooling their ten pound loans and holding a rock concert for their fellow students last Friday night. After receiving start up capital to the tune of £100 between them as part of the Make Your Mark Read more…

Making their Mark in Malvern – The Chase School take on Tenners

March 15th, 2010 by caroline

I had a Tenner-tastic afternoon at The Chase School in Malvern.  This group of young people are fairly new to Make Your Mark, but have opted to take part in Make Your Mark activity as part of their Young Chamber.
Part of the group were regionally shortlisted in the West Midlands Make Your Mark Challenge final and Read more…

Making Our Mark at Venturefest

February 12th, 2010 by Diane Beckett

The Yorkshire and Humber team had a great time attending Venturefest in York (a one day expo bringing together science, technology and knowledge entrepreneurs) this week as part of the Enterprise Inspirations exhibition.
Schools were very keen to find out about Make Your Mark with a Tenner and we look forward to receiving more Read more…

A few words from the Tenner Guru – Oli Barrett

February 8th, 2010 by martha

Hello to everyone registered for Make Your Mark with a Tenner (not registered yet? Make sure you do by Wednesday 17 February),
Wow!  I can’t believe that over 20,000 places have already been filled for this year’s Tenner.  It only seems like a few minutes ago that we opened for business!  It’s going to be a Read more…

3 weeks and over £170,000 pledged..

February 1st, 2010 by martha

Registration for Make Your Mark with a Tenner opened on 11 January and we’ve already pledged to give over 17,000 students £10 for the month of March so that they can come up with creative and enterprising ideas to make profit and make a difference.
That’s a lot of enterprising students but we’ve still got money Read more…

………..and the winners of the Yorkshire and Humber regional final for the Make Your Mark Challenge are………

December 1st, 2009 by Diane Beckett

New College in Pontefract and Wisewood School in Sheffield!
New College students excelled in the 16 – 19 category with PowerShoe, a kinetic energy harnessing device that utilises the wasted energy that is created everyday in the sole of our shoes.
Wisewood School took the regional title for the 14 – 16 category with H2 Power, a Read more…

Polar Bear Invades Nissan, Sunderland at MYM Challenge Final!

November 27th, 2009 by Amelia

There were some confused faces around the Nissan Manufacturing Plant yesterday as their site was invaded by a Polar Bear! Lucky for them this one was harmless and in fact wanted nothing more than to tell them all about Global Warming and protecting the environment.
Percy the Polar Bear is the main character in a series Read more…

Just who will fly the flag for Yorkshire?

November 26th, 2009 by emma_l

Now, with just one day to go until our regional final of the Make Your Mark Challenge we really are on the edge of our seats and can’t wait to see our teams present their ideas.
 
Whilst we contain our excitement (just) we would like to thank all of our teams for the high standard of entries from schools Read more…

What a week

November 23rd, 2009 by emma_l

For me Global Entrepreneurship Week began and finished with teams of enterprising students, from the Make Your Mark Challenge launch in North Yorkshire through to Student Speaks in Wakefield.
 
Student Speaks was an opportunity for youngsters from secondary schools across the Wakefield district to be involved in GEW, discuss the theme ‘skills, enterprise and work’ and Read more…

Malet Lambert School – Stand Out From The Crowd!

November 17th, 2009 by Diane Beckett

The dark and blustery November weather could not dampen the spirits of 200 enthusiastic pupils at Malet Lambert School in Hull this morning. This was no usual morning as the Make Your Mark Challenge 2009 was launched and the secret brief was unveiled ‘Let local inspiration lead you to a ‘cool’ creation.

The school hall Read more…

The Make Your Mark Challange kicks off and Peter Jones is put to the test…

November 16th, 2009 by Bonnie

Today I have been at the GEW launch at the British Library, working with a school taking part in the Make Your Mark Challenge live at the event. Before The Challenge began, our Enterprise UK Ambassador Louis Barnett gave the students a large dose of inspiration by telling them about his entrepreneurial journey, which began when he was Read more…

Student photography celebrates Make Your Mark Challenge

October 8th, 2009 by Alex_Goldup

We’re in the fortunate position of coming across a lot of enrepreneurial talent during the course of our work here at Enterprise UK. Few talents, however, have been as precocious as young Jemma Rogers.
Jemma Rogers – a Year 11 student at St. Edmunds School in Sailsbury – is an aspiring photographer. She – being entrepreneurial Read more…