Secondary Education Case Studies

Six lucky Sheffield students are about to embark on the trip of lifetime to Hong Kong after winning the city’s annual enterprise competition, the BiG Challenge. 

Calderdale’s youngsters have been forging ahead with businesses ever since running a project funded by Yorkshire Forward, in collaboration with the LSC and Calderdale Council.

On Friday 26th March 2010 40 Year 8 students from Malet Lambert School Language College took part in the Enterprise 2012 Get Set Olympic Challenge.

On Monday 24th January, pupils at Queensbury School pitted their wits against each other to come up with enterprising ideas for a new shoe design to sell to China. The business challenge was arranged to celebrate Chinese New Year and was sponsored by China Britain Business Council, a Business Language Champion for Yorkshire & Humber, together with Young Enterprise.

An excellent example highlighting the success which “Stem Enterprise” have achieved since a team of year 12 pupils joined the Young Enterprise Company Programme.

Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide celebration of entrepreneurial people unleashing their enterprising talents, turning their ideas into reality and sowing the seeds of future dreams and aspirations. Established in 2004 in the UK as Enterprise Week, the event has grown larger each year and in 2008 it became part of a wider global movement, Global Entrepreneurship Week. This year’s event (16th-22nd November 2009) saw over 30,000 events attracting nearly 5 million people in 77 countries. For each person taking part it offered a platform to shine a spotlight on their entrepreneurial activities and develop their own unique view of the world.

Forty children aged 11 to 14 from schools in Barnsley and Newham came together at Pond’s Forge in Sheffield on Tuesday 10th of November 2009 to be the first young people in the country to trial a brand new enterprise challenge designed by London 2012’s Education Team. The challenge called ‘Have you got what it takes’ tasked the young people with developing a bid to become an approved pre-Games training camp. Their bid had to demonstrate how their training camp would reflect the Olympic and Paralympic values. 

Enterprise Week is an annual UK-wide week of activities, events and inspiration for young people. In 2008 for the first time Enterprise Week went Global!

Rural Crafts is a student-led company that rose to The Kickstart £10 Enterprise Challenge and won!

GRID Entrepreneurship Masterclass - fastracking young entrepreneurial talent in the Bradford District.