On Tuesday August 13th BTEC Business students travelled all the way from Newcastle College
The morning kicked off with an informal, yet informative presentation from Nicola Horner: Marketing Co-ordinator, covering all aspects of the Leeds Business School
Aspiring young students were interested in everything from Law to Marketing and had plenty of questions about the university and the courses themselves.
Also present were student representatives Ellie Langton from BA Marketing and Racheal McHugh from BA Marketing who had their work cut out for them acting as “bankers” in the games that followed…
After the presentation and Q&A sessions the students were split into five groups and each group was given £250, sadly though for the students, these notes wouldn’t have much hope of been passed in the shops.
The challenge was to build a bridge of 50cms wide and 10cms off the ground, within 30 minutes, using only the tools which were available for purchase from the dedicated bankers. These tools included; paper, sticky tape and paper clips.
The teams set off to work with dedication in their eyes as they faced the challenge of ingenuity, the time flew by and before any of us could be ready, it was time to test the integrity of these structures…
The only way to truly test these not so magnificent feats was of course with tiny toy cars. The structures were judged on quality, budget used, time taken, whether a car was actually able to make it from one side to the other and how many cars it could hold in total.
As the students watched on some were met with disappointment and others with roaring victories as bridges fell and others stood tall, but the most important thing was of course that everybody got involved, had a great time and cheered their rivals along.
The day concluded with a tour of the Civic Quarter Campus and then students were free to go into the unknown and enjoy the delights of Leeds , before returning to their home in Newcastle
Victoria Crampton
