Date: 9/2/2019 Audience:Year 11- 13 Business students Venue: Heriott Watt University Dubai
Title: Presenters / Conductors: Heriot Watt University Business Department
Aims & Objective: To enable students to design their own business and experience running it.
To give yr 11 business students an opportunity to start up their business plans by making and presenting their business ideas.
To enable students to engage in designing, making and presenting their innovative business plans .
Summary:
On 9th February the Year 11 Business students participated in the Business Simulation Challenge held at the Heriot Watt University .The students were asked to design a Marketing campaign for a chocolate manufacturing company. In successive rounds they were required to devise strategies to maximize their profitability. The Business Simulation exercise proved to be an interesting and exciting challenge for the students. Overall the Winchester team stood at sixth position out of 54 teams . The students were accompanied by Ms Rachna Shukla & Ms Sherin Walder.
Student Feedback :
“This was a very fun and engaging event which enabled us to challenge ourselves and experience the world of business. ” – Yusra
“It was fun and like super cool. I enjoyed using my accounting skills in here and making memes was the best part” – Hussain
“I think our management skills were good here as a team generally but we spent a lot of time deciding a name for our company which took up a lot of our time in round 1. And I think that it was a very good idea to make a video as our marketing strategy because it was unique and stood out” – Sadia
“Overall it was a great experience and I really enjoyed it” – Arnav
“I would definitely participate in more events like these. Although we didn’t win, It was still a very fun competition” – Abbas
Winchester Business Blog 