A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
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The event saw six teams of 3-4 compete during two rounds. Each of the teams got to spend half an hour with three consultants in the areas of design and innovation, marketing and branding.
In the first round, the teams had to design a toy targeted for boys aged 9-12. They also had to come up with a marketing strategy for the build up to Christmas.
They then had to present their ideas to a panel of three judges. One of the judges, Imran Hakim, invented the iTeddy.
The ideas presented included a board game, customisable remote control cars and a music based toy.
Three teams made it through to the second and final round. These teams had to spend a day selling a product produced by a local artist at the York’s Children Christmas Fair.
Through a silent auction, they had to choose between a collection of paintings for children's nurseries, jewellery, or bags and prints.
At the end of the day the results were announced at a private reception at Pitcher and Piano. The winning team was 4Team, who sold jewellery made by Jo Bagshaw.
Bagshaw is currently exhibiting some of her work at the Bedern Hall in York.
The York Entrepreneur Society President, Suraj Gangani, said he was "really proud" of the effort put in and the ideas presented by all the teams.
Chloe Milne, a member of the winning team, said: "Winning the competition was fantastic! We put in a lot of hard work over the course of the week, not to mention a full day outside on a market, so it was great to see it was all worthwhile."
She also praised the event adding: "We all got the opportunity to meet extremely successful business men and women during the competition and their advice was invaluable."
The winning team made £74 profit in a day, right? And they get £750? XD
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comment deleted by a moderator The winning team made a profit on retail prices, as well as making it through the first challenge which focused on their creative and presenting skills. They had to put in 4 full days of work and battle against 5 other teams. On the last day, one other team made a little less profit and one team packed it in as the sales were not happening. I believe the team fully deserve their prize along with a great experience, I hope!
Booooooooo Suraj!!!!!
hope it was done better than the apprentice, the first challenge of which basically encouraged people to go round campus selling confectionary for about £5 a chocolate bar/donut/crisp to their wealthy friends/sports team.
The challenge consisted of selling art/textiles/prints etc on a market stall on Parliament Street as part of the children's fair. The work on each stall was worth the same and each item ranged from £10 to £50 retail worth (as told to us by the designer and artist that the teams matched up with the day before the selling). No team sold out, and one team did not even sell one piece. The profit that the winning team made was excellent for the challenge put in front of them, as we were expecting to rate each team on who incurred the smallest loss. Each team was treated like any other market trader by the council. It is all on www.yorkentrepreneurs.org so please do have a look for yourself. As a committee we felt it was a very hard and credible sales challenge and the teams also agreed. Oh and Myles its been over 6 months 
I didn't suggest that it was either easy or dodgy.. I just thought that rewarding people who didn't even make a profit with £750 was amusing and I wish that I'd taken part 
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