Issue Number 04 | November 2019
GEL Summit
A group of our new Social Enterprise and Young Enterprise students
attended the Global Entrepreneurial Leaders (GEL) Youth Summit in
October. They heard from a variety of industry experts, including Dr Mick
Jackson, the founder of the Wildhearts Foundation. Students heard talks
about using enterprise as a force for social and economic change. Both
groups will take this knowledge forward and consider the UN Sustainable
Development Goals while running their own businesses within the school.
Micro Tyco –
Innovate
This year the Business
Department
are
launching
‘Micro
Tyco Innovate’ with
the
S3
Social
Enterprise classes. The
students will be split
into teams and must
create a business
idea
which
will
contribute
towards
one or more of the
UN’s 17 Sustainable
Development Goals.
Some of the ideas
from the teams so far
include an app which
allows
people
to
locate their nearest
bin/recycling area to
reduce littering and a
pop-up café to allow
work experience for
the unemployed. The
final ideas will be sent
to Micro Tyco at the
end of November
and if successful our
teams will be asked to
compete
in
a
regional final – good
luck to all involved!
Computing Science
- Bebras
S1 pupils participated
in
the
Bebras
Computing
Challenge 2019 in
November.
This
introduces
computational
thinking to pupils in
over 30 countries and
6
designed
to
get
pupils excited about
Computing Science
and problem solving.
Each participant gets
45 minutes to solve 15
activities that focus
on
computational
and logical thinking.
Try out some previous
challenges:
https://challenge.be
bras.uk