Ideas Igloo roadshows
Innovator Alex Tew is leading a search for hidden entrepreneurs in colleges and universities across the UK as the face of the Ideas Igloo roadshows, coordinated by the Make Your Mark campaign in partnership with Microsoft UK.The new initiative, which launched in Enterprise Week 2007, will visit 18 UK colleges and universities over the next six months and aims to inspire innovation and ideas generation amongst further and higher education students.
Students will visit the giant inflatable igloos on campus for workshop sessions designed to help them generate ideas and think about how to turn them into a reality. Later in the day, they will get the opportunity to pitch their ideas in front of a panel of judges, including entrepreneur Alex Tew, for the chance to win a prize of £150. The winners will go forward to a national final, where they’ll compete to win £2,000 plus a package of Microsoft products to help them get their business underway.
The Ideas Igloo Roadshow has now completed its tour, but watch this space!
These are colleges and universities that took part in the Ideas Igloo Roadshow:
Colleges
- Greenwich Community College
- Newham College
- Liverpool Community College
- Leeds Park Lane College
- Josiah Mason College
- Sheffield College
- Leicester College
Universities
- Thames Valley University
- University of Glasgow
- Swansea University
- Birmingham City University
- University of Essex
- University of Bradford
- Kingston University
- Manchester Metropolitan University
Ideas Igloo Roadshow final…
The Ideas Igloo Roadshow final was held at Sheffield College on 07 March 2008. The seventeen finalists had to produce a trade fair stand promoting their business idea, then pitch in front of the dragons den-style panel: Alex Tew (Million Dollar Webpage), Lars Lindstedt (Microsoft), Ralph Braitwaite (3rd Phase Media) and Julie Byrne (Castle College).James Clarke from Manchester Metropolitan University won the competition with his Ski Safe lock (left).
Lucie Dalton from New Brompton College with affordablethings2do.com and Kit Lucas with Real-Time Diagnostics from Swansea University were runners up.
Gallery
Check out photos from the Ideas Igloos in the Ideas Igloo photo gallery. Links
Article in The Independent - 7 December 2007www.microsoft.com
Contact
For further information on the Ideas Igloo roadshow please contact:Kate Fredericks - Ideas Igloo roadshow Project Manager
emai: katefredericks@makeyourmark.org.uk
tel: 07725204189