Following on from the FBMplus 2015/16 competition launch earlier in the month (FMBplus 2015/16 Zombie Apocalypse ) it was straight down to business at the first workshop at the Sjovoll Centre, Durham. FBMplus is a competition now in its 3rd year collaborating with TICE to facilitate a series of workshops to foster enterprise and business in young people across sixth form and FE colleges in Durham. Each workshop has its own challenges that are completed for points with the overall competition winners announced in a final celebration. Four teams from Bishop Auckland College, Park View School and Framwellgate School Durham came together with their enterprising business ideas for the 2-hour session, which started with an overview of the competition and a reminder of the theme for this year ‘Hospitality’. The teams were asked to bring in their completed Challenge One tasks: a short video, 5 photographs per team, a short paragraph on why they have entered the competition, their Team Name and a minimum of three business ideas to discuss throughout the session. Jenny Barrett, Managing Director of TICE led the workshop with a theory presentation establishing foundations for generating new business ideas with the use of SWOT analysis and the [...]
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