Global Enterprise Challenge (GEC)

What is the Global Enterprise Challenge?

The Global Enterprise Challenge is a 24 hour enterprise challenge. It gives young people aged 16 – 19 the opportunity to develop their knowledge and experience of enterprise. Coleg Powys will once again compete in the Global Enterprise Challenge.

Last year, two teams of business students from the Newtown and Brecon campuses competed against each other to decide who would go forward to represent the College in the Welsh Global Enterprise Challenge. The teams were given an enterprise challenge at 9.30am and had to develop a business plan throughout the day and present it to a panel of invited judges.

This year even more teams from all over the College will have the opportunity to take part in the challenge. The teams will be selected at the Make your Mark Challenge in November 2009. These teams will then compete across the College in the Global Challenge with the winning team going on to represent the College at the national finals held in Cardiff.

About the GEC

Previously called the Enterprise Olympics, the inaugural event was launched from the International Space Station in 2002, and the following year the then Chancellor and now Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, announced the challenge in a live web stream. As many as 5000 young people from 200 schools and colleges around the world now take part each year.

More details on this to follow...

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