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Wow ... Celebration!
Hello and welcome to this November issue of the Cracking Ideas newsletter which we’ve decided to call the ‘WOW!’ edition. We’ve had several weeks of celebrating success here at CI H.Q. We’ve been cheering the accomplishments of some of the cracking people we’ve met recently and we’ve been enjoying a little bit of our own success too! Wow-nderful Innovation!
The Cracking Ideas team have had the pleasure of meeting lots of wonderful innovative creators in the past but this lot truly wowed us! We’re talking about 7 young inventors from Cypress Schools in South Norwood, London who’ve used their creative ingenuity to come up with a potentially life-saving medical health-band device. The cracking team consisting of 10 to 11 year old Olivia, Shanay, Milhan, Indija, Charlie-Joy, Jessica and Daisy came up with their helpful innovation whilst taking part in a school programme involving its thriving inventors club. Their bangle like device is designed to be worn by vulnerable people and can be used in case of crisis to contact the emergency services directly. Science and Technology co-ordinator for Cypress Schools commented that the health-band, created from the girls own experience of a relative who was taken ill suddenly, was a brilliant idea that showed application of technology in the real world. The Cracking Ideas team is in full agreement – there is nothing like needing to find a solution to a problem situation you’ve experienced to get your creative juices flowing and solving that conundrum. It was an honour to be present at the British Invention Show Awards 21 October to see the Cypress Schools team receive the much coveted Double Gold International Young Inventors Award: Invention of the Year 2011. Congratulations all of you. Carry on with your cracking creativity. This Is Wow We Did It!
We were thrilled to announce last week that Cracking Ideas has been awarded the prestigious ‘High Impact Badge of Honour’ as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 14 – 20 November. The Intellectual Property Office’s educational resource was awarded the title for its achievements in encouraging innovation, creativity and intellectual property awareness amongst young innovators in the UK. The GEW UK team told Cracking Ideas "On behalf of everyone at Youth Business International, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to you and your colleagues on the important work that you are doing to help build and inspire the businesses of tomorrow". Global Entrepreneurship Week is a celebration of the past 51 innovative weeks, and sets the scene for the next year ahead. It aims to connect people, to share ideas and drive the next generation of business owners. To these ends Cracking Ideas is honoured to be involved. To find out more about Global Entrepreneurship Week and how you can get stuck in visit www.gew.org.uk where there are stacks of cracking enterprising activities to get your teeth into! Wow Us With Your Cracking Ideas
And as if all that excitement wasn’t enough don’t forget you can be in with a chance of winning your own stonking accolade by entering the current Cracking Ideas competition. This year you are challenged to come up with a cracking sporty idea for Wallace & Gromit that’ll make them worthy of wowzer medal status. Just visit www.crackingideas.com/competition, and upload your ideas for the chance to be an awesome award winner yourself. It doesn’t matter if you’re a footie fanatic, motorsport maniac or gymnastics junkie there will be a cracking sporty idea that will make your chosen activity for Wallace & Gromit even better! Whether you go nuts for netball, ditzy for dance or potty for ping-pong step up to the challenge and get cracking with the sporty creativity ... we are waiting to be wowed! Wow ... Time To Go!Just space enough left to say goodbye for now and good luck. See you soon and don’t forget there is an innovative and creative ‘WOW’ in each and every one of us, so get cracking! Cracking regards Nick Jenkins The Cracking Ideas Team |
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