With the event now less than a week away the final entries are in and the standard of engineering is fantastic 

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On Friday the 27th of June the eagerly anticipated Four le Tour awards ceremony will be on hand to celebrate the Tour de Frances arrival in North Yorkshire. The event will take place at The Balcony in Harrogate where the students will exhibit their engineering talents and present their projects. The awards will be handed out to schools for the overall winners of the competition as well as the best product and marketing strategy.

Five teams have been shortlisted and will go up against each other from over 20 teams who applied. Leeds Grammar, King James’s, St Aidan’s and Outwood Academy Ripon are the four schools contending to be the winners of the Four le Tour, with two of the teams from the Leeds Grammar School. The shortlisted teams have done extremely well to make the last five from so many initial applications who were interested, which was fantastic to see.

The judging panel will be made up of Peter Eland who is the proprietor, editor and publisher of bike magazine Velo Vision, Chris Mackenzie from The Whole Caboodle, a company that specialises in Advertising, Digital media and Design based in Harrogate and also Paul Marsh, the managing director of GSPK Design.

The day of the event will see the students come with their projects and ideas and bring them forward through a presentation by sharing their thought processes throughout their products design process. With belief in their products and being able to sell their ideas, the judges will then be able to give the students a great opportunity to receive feedback and guidance about their products.

Working on an industrial project like this gives students a better understanding of ways in which to design and market a successful product. The competition has encouraged students to get involved in engineering, electrical design and manufacture and by looking at all the entries, it’s great to see the amount of enthusiasm we have had for this competition. The impressive projects submitted so far means it will be a close fought competition and every little bit of research, strategic planning or innovation will help the judges to decide which school comes out on top.

The awards arrived last week and the competition is soon approaching, to keep up to date with this competition, please follow us on Twitter @GSPKDesign

Some of the North Yorkshire’s most talented young entrepreneurs went head-to-head as the Young Enterprise, Yorkshire & Humber, Company Programme Competition heats up. Four teams from schools across the county found out last week which of them had earned a place in the Young Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber Grand Final due to be held at the Merchant Adventurers Hall in York on June 15th. The teams, which have been taking part in the competition to set up and run a business since September last year, have all presented to a panel of highly experienced judges, undergone rigorous interviews and set up trade stalls to their companies. The prestigious awards ceremony was held at the Pavilion’s of Harrogate on Tuesday, May 10th. This year’s teams include Pearl from King James School in Knaresborough, which makes bespoke glass and bead jewellery; tourism business Magentaprize from South Craven School in Keighley; Chains from St Aidan's C of E School Harrogate, which also makes jewellery, and; Cutting Edge from St Peter’s School in York, which produced a Chair Yoga DVD, “Get Fit Whilst You Sit” for use with the elderly and people suffering with mobility problems. Paul Marsh, Managing Director, was MC of the Ceremony, Chair of Judges and presented an award which was supported by GSPK Design Ltd . GSPK Design supported the award for Most Innovative Product/Service. Presenting the award Paul said…….."Innovation is all about change and improvement, and this year all the teams showed this in great abundance. It gave us great pleasure to present the award for Innovation, GSPK Design pride ourselves in constantly looking to improve and innovate and we felt it important to indentify and recognise this within the competition." As Chair of the Judging panel and also as MC of the event Paul went on the say……"The competition is really hotting up and the finals are going to be difficult to judge. This year there are some extremely passionate and committed young people, with business skills and acumen that would rival a lot of their seniors. Good luck to them all." Jill Tinsley, Development Manager for Young Enterprise North Yorkshire said, “ GSPK Design Ltd have given Young Enterprise tremendous support over the years. Paul Marsh in particular has been a great advocate for Young Enterprise and I’m really pleased that he was able to lead the judges and be able to hand over an award to such an enterprising company as Cutting Edge.” The overall winners Cutting Edge will now go on to compete in the Yorkshire and Humber final on June 15th at Merchant Adventurers in York, and the winner of that will represent Yorkshire and Humber in the Young Enterprise national finals on 11th – 13th July.
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