Year 10 Business Students

During Week 6, a group of Year 10 Business students attended the Bundaberg Entrepreneurship Immersion day held at the Multiplex. The event was hosted by Bundaberg Regional Council to help develop students’ UX designer and entrepreneurial mindsets and their 21^st Century skills. 

Fifteen teams were organised from schools around Bundaberg and Shalom had two teams. Each group had to identify a local problem, formulate a solution and create a way to make their solution a “business” idea. At the end, each group presented to three separate panels (similar to Shark Tank). The students were mentored throughout the day by a range of business professionals including Glenn Richards, founder of Greencross Vets and Shark Tank investor. 

After the presentations, the “investors” chose how much they were willing to invest in each business idea. Our Shalom teams placed first and third for their innovative business ideas. Our winning team’s business was Cane Cutlery and Catering Supplies, a business that uses sugar cane byproducts to transform into environmentally sustainable alternatives to plastic cutlery and catering products. The business would source cane trash from local farms and re-purpose an unused mill to revive the Bundaberg Sugar Cane Industry. Our third placed team was Ibis Bins. This business idea created a recycling bin using Artificial Intelligence to identify the type of recycled product placed in the bin and provide a rewards system via an app to customers who use the facility. The ‘Bin Chicken’ would be rolled out firstly in schools using a school-based rewards card that students can claim when they recycle their rubbish in the correct bin. 

Both teams were enthusiastic and passionate about their ideas and are using their new-found skills in the development of their business plan for their final assessment task at school. Well done to our Year 10 Business students on their success - Ethan A, Kaylee B, Teegan G, Melinda H, Grace M, Erin M, Ella-Jade R, Keiarna S.