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School's Out!

School's Out!

Hello and welcome to the July issue of the Cracking Ideas newsletter! School's out for summer and it’s time for some sun (hopefully) and some fun!

The end of the school summer term marks the end of another busy year at Cracking Ideas with last year’s competition being the most successful ever with a mind blowing 8,994 innovative competition entries – all cracking ideas for Wallace & Gromit’s next business venture.

With that in mind, this issue we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009-2010 competition and tell you all about how you can get involved with our brand new 2010-2011 challenge!

Cracking Winners!

Cracking Winners!

Oscar® winner Nick Park chose Aurora Carter’s ‘Baddy Catcher’, Finn Collinson’s ‘Alarming Results’ and Elliot Cooke’s ‘Con-Cone Company’ as Wallace & Gromit’s next cracking business. Each winning idea captured the essence of the enterprising duo’s mad-cap inventiveness with consideration to how this creativity could be protected by intellectual property rights.

The 3 overall victors and the regional winners: Rory Doherty, Grace Graham, Elixabete Riley, Gavin McCafferty, Ray Vandyck, Naomi Jones, Ethan Cardus and Catherine Cousins were invited to an award ceremony attended by Intellectual Property Minister Baroness Wilcox at LEGOLAND®, Windsor where a cracking good time was had by all!

Thank you to everyone who took time to enter the Cracking Ideas competition – we enjoyed looking at all your innovative entries and congratulations to you all!

What's Next?

What's Next?

If you’d like to see your cracking idea win a brilliant prize in future, why not enter the current Cracking Ideas competition based on the thrills and spills of the theme park!  Take a look at www.crackingideas.com/competition

And if this season’s August weather proves to be more drizzle than sunshine why not take the time to think up ways to enjoy all the fun of the fair at your own specially designed innovative theme park. You never know – your entry could prove to be the cracker selected by Nick Park next year!

Whichever way you decide to occupy yourselves this summer, make sure you use your time to the full - Be innovative, get creative, stay safe and above all HAVE FUN!

Cracking regards for a fantastic summer,

Nick Jenkins
Cracking Ideas Team