Participating in the rookie challenge!

One of the days in college, we had a vister in class, this was a very special visitor, it was a Duck and Emma Brobazon, she came into our E- business class to give us information on the rookie challenge I knew straight awa7y i wanted to participate in this event. After class i asked around the class to see if any of my class mates were interested because teams must be of groups of four. I was very lucky cuase the few people i had asked first were up for it! Catherine, Jonathan, Emma and myself, went straight down to sign our selves up. We seen it as a great opportunity to build on our CV and gain some experience. When we signed up we were given our first task this task was "using mister rubber duck" who came into visit us in class with Emma. Think of a business idea using this duck to generate revenue. Our idea was to start up a forum for schools and colleges all over, This was a chat service, our target market was paricularly aimed at first year students who find it hard to settle into school/college and who find it hard to adjust to the transition from primary to second level education and fom second level schools to third level colleges! This service offers the students the chance to send us instant messages during college hours, and emails. They will have the option of not giving out their personal information if they don't feel they want to. We all got a text that sunday evening to tell us that we got through to the next round, i have to say we were all chuffed. Our second challenge was given to us on Monday morning at nine 0'clock and i have to say we never laughed soo much! We were given a bag full of both worthless items and items that were worth something and told that we had to sell thes goods in an innovtive way. We got to work straight away. Although we had to first do our presentations for Helen whites class, and then we got the permission to go straight to work! We sold all our items and made a fantastic profit of 51 euro! :P Our most innoveative sale had to have been the tile that we had to sell, we thought of selling it on its on, but thought every group will do this so we used a photogriphy book that had also been gien to us, and recognised the theme of "a penny for your thoughts, printed this out and cut out the pictures and made a collage of all these people! We made a fantastic 2f euro from our innovative thinking and superb art work! haha Well done team! We were told as soon as all teams had presented that we were through to the next round! Delighted we were so we went straight to work at with our final task, using a disposable product come up with an innovative idea. Our idea was an online book shop within the college. This e book shop would offer a better return on investment than the college shop and also we would offer something completely different a swapping service for books of similar value with a small fee attached! We didn not win the rookie challenge, but in our minds we did. We got further than someone who did not do the rookie challenge and we had some craic! :P we celebrated that evening in The Lisdoo in Dundalk! :P QUACK QUACK