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Secondary school students in Jersey are set for an engaging and informative time as they prepare for Global Entrepreneurship Week, which takes place from 18th to 22nd November.
Secondary school students in Jersey are set for an engaging and informative time as they prepare for Global Entrepreneurship Week, which takes place from 18th to 22nd November.
Seven island schools have signed up to learn more about what it takes to be enterprising, and to use what they learn to solve a number of challenges that have been set by the organisers. More than 40 Island business leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals have volunteered to help the students throughout the week, acting as mentors.
As well as inspirational talks and brain-testing activities, teams from the participating schools have selected from two challenges they need to address: to identify a new business idea for Jersey that will help build a sustainable economy; or to develop a solution that would reduce the number of cars using Island roads by 15%.
Helping to inspire the 730 year 8 to 12 students taking part will be a man who is no stranger to overcoming seemingly impossible challenges: Sean Conway is in the news this week for swimming from Land’s End to John O’Groats and he will be joining the team of mentors, giving talks at each of the schools.
At the end of the exercises each team will be judged by a panel of experts in a series of heats, with the final two teams battling out for top honours in front of an audience of their peers.
Jersey Business is helping to facilitate the week and Chief Executive Andy Cook says: ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week is an opportunity for our future entrepreneurs, business leaders and social influencers to get their teeth into real issues and come up with innovative solutions. We are very grateful to everyone who is giving up their time to help out; we want to wish all the schools the best of luck; and we hope as a result of taking part that we light a fire in the imaginations of these young people to seek out new ideas that could become the bedrock of Jersey’s economy in the coming years.’
There is still an opportunity for people wishing to be mentors to become part of the team already lined up, creating an even greater concentration of ‘expert power’ for the students to benefit from. Anyone interested in helping during the week should contact Jersey Business.
