Invitation to schools’ budding business brains
Schools in County Durham are being invited to put their best business brains forward.
The Future Business Magnates competition, now in its 17th year, is online for the first time – aiming to get teams of Year 8 students working together with local businesses to create, develop and present their business ideas.
The programme, run by
Business Durham, the business support service of Durham County Council, aims to inspire future entrepreneurs by allowing pupils to experience the fun of starting their own business while developing skills, such as teamwork, problem solving, communication and presentation.
Thisyear’sthemeis‘Solving ProblemsinanEver-Changing
World’ and participants will identify a problem – the environment, natural disasters or the consequence of worldwideemergency–andcomeup withanideathatwillhelpsolve it and turn into an innovative new business.
Studentswilltakepartinsix individualchallenges,supported by dedicated business partners from successful County
Durham firms.
CllrElizabethScott,cabinet memberforeconomyandpartnerships, said: “Future BusinessMagnatesprovidesagreat opportunityforstudentstoexplorepossiblecareerpathways as well as nurture and inspire their entrepreneurial skills, and I’m delighted that we’ve been able to adapt the competition to run in this new online format.Recenttimeshavetested the resilience of many companies across the county, and so the ability to use creativity, ingenuity and inventiveness to findnewsolutionstoproblems is essential and a skill we feel is vital to pass onto the next generation.”
Visithttps://www.durhamstartups.co.uk/future-business-magnates/