Celebrating Young Entrepreneurs: Primary School Enterprise Challenge 2024 Awards Ceremony

Last week Ambispace managing director Kevin Wheatley had the great pleasure of joining the judging panel as The Barnsley Metrodome buzzed with excitement as young minds gathered for the Primary School Enterprise Challenge 2024. This annual event provides a platform for primary school students to showcase their entrepreneurial skills and compete against each other to win trophies, and this year a very special prize for the school of the overall winner. 

The Challenge

Working in teams, these budding entrepreneurs tackled a real-life business challenge to design a range of imaginative sensory spaces that would support SEND and wellbeing in their school. Through this experience, they honed essential skills such as:

Creativity: working as a team to produce innovative solutions.

Problem-Solving: Addressing practical business issues including costing their proposals.

Leadership: Guiding their teams toward success.

Presentation: Communicating their ideas effectively through use of storyboards and descriptive language in front of a Dragon’s Den style judging panel. 

The Winners

Among the standout schools were:

Edlington Victoria Academy: Their creative approach earned them recognition.

Willow Primary School: Not only did they win two awards, but they also impressed with their teamwork.

Carr Lodge Academy: Crowned the overall winner, Carr Lodge demonstrated exceptional entrepreneurial spirit.

The Prize

Ambispace ltd have a passion for encouraging and enabling young people to raise their life aspirations and maximise their individual potential through education. It was a very proud moment when Kevin was invited by the event organiser Paul Robson to join the judging panel and add his specialist sensory knowledge to the selection of the exceptional winning entries. To show this appreciation and to encourage more schools and children to take part in future enterprise challenges, Carr Lodge Academy not only took the title and trophy of overall winners, but a wonderful new Sensory Nook that will be installed in their school by the Ambispace team for the start of the new academic year. 

Interested in joining the winners in having your very own Sensory Nook? Check out the Sensory Nook website below.