The New Bridge Enterprise have had a very busy couple of months. There are two new products that they are promoting as part of their involvement with Young Enterprise, which include the Cozy Cuddler heat pad and the Key Minds key rings. More information about the products and the NBEnterprise as a whole can be found on their website https://nbenterprise.co.uk/
Both groups had to prepare a presentation about the products to a Dragons Den in the business quarter of Manchester – Spinningfields.
Both groups did amazingly well in presenting their products in front of the Dragons and it was great preparation for the Young Enterprise finals happening later this term. Over recent years we have always come away with an award so fingers crossed for this year too. The Dragons gave both groups some advice and tips on how they might improve their presentations and both teams came away feeling motivated and confident. Especially as the Cozy Cuddlers heat pad was announced as the best product the Dragons had seen this year!
We have also been driving around the different Karten centres to film other projects that are happening for the Karten Centenary Promotional Film.
We visited The Hamlet, Derwen College, Langdon College, Bridge College and St Helens CDP and was blown away by the great work that is going on in the different centres.
We need more footage from other centres so that we can represent all the other successes funded by the Ian Karten Charitable Trust. The students are planning to start editing the footage after Easter break and we cant wait to see the results.
Another karten-funded project taking shape this year is our VR technology. This last few months we have started to film some of our work placements and bring an immersive experience with ClassVR of the potential job into the classroom before students go on their placement. We have also been testing how some of the young adults with complex needs cope with VR headsets and look to see if calm environments such as swimming with dolphins can help our service users relax when they are feeling anxious or in crisis.
And our final development has been around the use of our Karten-funded VR simulator. More and more students are now exploring the use of the Fork Lift Truck simulator and we are starting to generate a list of potential candidates who might progress further.
All projects are so exciting and we cant wait to see what the rest of the year brings.
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