Our Year 13 Business Studies students recently embarked on a field trip to Massey University to attend the Young Enterprise Spark Tank.
The day’s highlight was a series of dynamic meetings the students had with external Business Mentors, where our future entrepreneurs and business leaders had the opportunity to discuss their startup business ideas.
In rapid-fire 5-minute sessions, students presented their business concepts to experienced professionals from a range of industries and consultants, covering crucial aspects such as their unique selling points, potential selling channels, production processes, points of difference from competitors, pricing strategies and defining their ideal customer profiles (target market).
Our business groups impressed the mentors so much with their product ideas that they offered their expertise on an ongoing basis to help the students with their business throughout the year (and potentially beyond).
The feedback from our students was overwhelmingly positive. Many expressed how incredibly helpful it was to gain industry experts’ insights and real-world advice on their business ideas.
This hands-on experience reinforced classroom concepts and gave our students a taste of the fast-paced and dynamic world in which businesses now operate in. Seeing their confidence grow as they articulated their ideas and received constructive feedback was inspiring.
We’re proud of how our Year 13s represented our school and excited to see how they’ll apply these valuable insights to their business projects and classroom assessments moving forward.