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.
