College business students are pitch perfect

Business students at Derby College Group have been delivering the perfect pitches as a Dragons’ Den style challenge.

Around 150 students at the college took part in the event, pitching plans for new products to a panel of judges, made up of business owners and college staff.

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They heard presentations from 31 groups of students who had spent four weeks working with guest speakers, developing ideas for a product aimed at children and young people.

Ideas included an environmentally friendly skateboard kit, an educational app, a braille alphabet activity game and a car play mat and sensory activity packs for children with special educational needs.

Lorna Edwards, business team manager at the college, said: “This has been an amazing opportunity for students to develop their entrepreneurial, teamwork and employability skills – bringing together all the different elements that they have studied into a real-life situation.

“Over the year, the students have shown a great deal of resilience and this has been a fantastic way to end the academic year. The business staff are so proud of all our students.”