Dragons Den & Presentations


Presentations, Judges interviews & Tour of Wolverhampton University Campus Priorslee Telford.
9:30 am-3:30pm
Wednesday 21st March 2018. Shropshire CC area schools.

The Venue

The event was based at Wolverhampton University (Priorslee Campus). It gave the kids a real taste of what life could be like at a place like it. It was a nice early start for the kids that saw Flo running most of the way to school!

We arrived in plenty of time and were allocated a room for the day where they could practice in private. The kids had all worked very hard to learn their parts so that they could present without scripts. 

They were given just 8 minutes for their first and only practice. They were quite intimidated by the location in one of the University lecture theatres.



They had developed their presentation using Prezi in order to add a 'wow' factor, it worked, the judges were very impressed, not only with the presentation itself but with the obvious time and effort the kids had put in to learn their lines.

Dragons Den Interviews


The kids knew that they were going to be asked questions but what they didn’t realise was that it was in front of a panel of 5 judges who all fired questions at them. The team coped well, with the answers being shared throughout the team depending upon the subject matter. For some of them this was a harrowing experience that they dealt with extremely well.





Stem


Next on the agenda were two stem activities where they learnt about the drone program and engineering departments at the university.





The Main Event


After eating a light lunch – not, (a full roast dinner for most of them), it was back into the lecture theatre for the presentations. The understanding was they would have a 10-minute confidence booster from David Graham (young enterprise) and then present to the judges once again.

However, the reality was totally different. Unlike previous years they were going to present in front of not only the judges, but every other team! That represented more than 100 people!

With 17 teams having four minutes each going second-to-last wasn’t great. The nerves started to jangle, even I had sweaty palms. But eventually it was their turn. They were brilliant. With hardly a stumble they presented like pro’s and did both me and the school proud.


The actual presentation Video



To see the actual Prezi presentation click this link:

https://prezi.com/view/sSty63XhHWIDZ2wTHLqY/



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