On the day that David Cameron met with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for their final three-day inspection visit before the Games begin in July, five Rep London students attended a...
In January, several students from Queen Mary University’s SIFE (Students in Free Enterprise) ran their first module with students from Bethnal Green Technology College. The all-day entrepreneurial module saw the students participate in a battle of creativity as each group designed and pitched a new product that needed to compete with the leading mp3 in the market: the iPod. The young people responded well to the guidance and knowledge offered by the Queen Mary students and produced fantastic work: one group designed an indestructible mp3 player and the other created a voice-activating iPod-equivalent. Alongside this, students had to create the foundation for an advertising campaign, choosing a brand name and designing a logo, as well as deciding on the chief retailers of the product. With this information, the students produced first-class and comprehensive pitches. With results like that, it may be time for Apple to move over!